IBM announnced a loss of $497 billion for 1992, the largest single-year loss in US corporate history 

Lucy gives birth to Little Ricky  Read more...

Communist China Recognizes North Vietnam  Read more...

More than 20 people were kills when German zeppelins bombed England for the first time the bombs were dropped on Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn 

National Institute of Arts and Letters incorporated by Congress 

First regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US and England 

New bicycle race Tour de France announced 

Poet, author and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts  Read more...

James Watt, Scottish inventor, is born