• MANual Enterprises v. Day 370 U.S. 478 (1962) was the first case in which the U.S. Supreme Court engaged in plenary review of a Post Office Department order holding obscene materials "nonmailable"?
• official mail stamps were first introduced into the U.S. by the USPOD, due to an 1872 Republican election plan, to abolish free franking that 31,933 people were entitled to at a cost of US$5 million?

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1792

• Glasgow's Wellington Church was founded in 1792 as an Anti-Burgher congregation?
• Fort Story at Cape Henry in Virginia Beach, Virginia was the site of the first landing of the Jamestown settlers in 1607, and the Cape Henry Lighthouse, first in the U.S., in 1792?
• at the time, the 1947 Sydney hailstorm, which hospitalised at least 350 people, was the most severe storm to strike the city since records began in 1792?
• the U.S. federal government sold the disputed Erie Triangle region to Pennsylvania in 1792 so that state would have a freshwater port?
• the United States Mint produced a half dime coin from 1792 until 1873?