ON THIS DATE: In 1850, in Worcester, Massachusetts, Harvard and Yale University freshmen met in the first intercollegiate billiards match. In 1850, gold was discovered in the Rogue River in Oregon. In 1854, Walter Hunt is awarded the first U.S. patent for a paper shirt collar. In 1866, Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army. He was the first American officer to hold the rank. In 1941, the U.S. government froze all Japanese and Chinese assets. In 1946, the U.S. detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. It was the first underwater test of the device. In 1952, Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S. In 1961, Roger Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 and 40 in a doubleheader. In 1975, David Bowie released “Fame.” In 1998, the USS Harry S. Truman was commissioned and put into service by the U.S. Navy. In 2010, WikiLeaks leaked to the public more than 90,000 internal reports involving the U.S.-led War in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.

WEDNESDAY WISDOM: “Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” -William James