LOOKING BACK

1537: Jane Seymour, the third wife of England’s King Henry VIII, died 12 days after giving birth to Prince Edward, later King Edward VI.

1939: DuPont began publicly selling its nylon stockings.

1980: The freighter SS Poet departed Philadelphia, bound for Egypt, with a crew of 34 and a load of grain; it vanished en route and has not been heard from since.