May 24, 2009

24 - Telegraph Invented

1844: Samuel F.B. Morse transmits the message, "What hath God wrought" from Washington to Baltimore as he formally opened America's first telegraph line.

1883: Brooklyn Bridge, linking two New York City boroughs, Brooklyn and Manhattan, opens to traffic.

1941: the German battleship Bismarck sinks the British dreadnought Hood in the North Atlantic.

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Today's Birthdays:
Queen Victoria (1837-1901)
American clergyman Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969)
American golfer Jimmy DeMaret (1910-1983)
American politician Coleman Young (1918-1997)

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Something to Think About:
"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains." ~Anne Frank