TODAY IN HISTORY

1733: James Oglethorpe and some 120 English colonists arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, while en route to settle in present-day Georgia. 1898: Emile Zola’s famous defense of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, “J’accuse,” was published in Paris. 1941: a new law went into effect granting Puerto Ricans U.S. birthright citizenship. Novelist and poet James Joyce died in Zurich, Switzerland, less than a month before his 59th birthday.