August 2: This Day in History

Today in History Featured Fact, 1858:
The U.S. Postal Service installs the first mailboxes on the streets of Boston and New York City.

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1865: Midway in the laying of the first transatlantic cable, the cable snaps and is lost. The cable is finally laid a year later.
1873: The first San Francisco cable car begins operation.
1892: Charles Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator.
1909: The U.S. Army Air Corps, ancestor of the U.S. Air Force, is born when the U.S. Army takes delivery of a shipment of planes built by the Wright Brothers.
1943: John F. Kennedy's PT-boat, the "109", is sunk by a Japanese destroyer in the Solomon Islands.
1945: The survivors of the "USS Indianapolis," sunk by a Japanese submarine on July 29, are finally spotted by a passing patrol plane.

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