Today is Wednesday, August 15, the 227th day of 2018. There are 138 days left in the year.
1620 — Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
1748 — United Lutheran Church of U.S. organized
1832 — Gregory XVI encyclical on liberalism and religious indifferentism
1858 — Regular mail to the Pacific coast begins
1870 — Transcontinental Railway actually completed
1886 — Guy Hecker scores 7 runs in 1 game
1912 — Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game
1914 — Panama Canal opens (under cost)
1918 — First full length cartoon (the Sinking of the Lusitania)