Off the coast of Virginia, English pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle when a British boarding party cornered and then shot and stabbed him more than 25 times.

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The first of 2,956 episodes of The Lone Ranger radio series airs on station WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan.