Robinson Crusoe was published in 1719. The US declared war on Spain in 1898. Watson and Crick published the paper detailing their discovery of the double helix in 1953.
Birthdays: Oliver "Bastard" Cromwell (1599); Guglielmo Marconi (1874); Walter de la Mare (1956); Ella Fitzgerald (1917); Albert King (1923); Al Pacino (1940).
