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 May 24, 1844. Samuel F.B. Morse Sent the First Telegraphic Message ... What was the first telegraph message? Sent by inventor Samuel F.B. Morse on May 24, 1844, over an experimental line from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, the message said: "What hath God wrought?" [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] Taken from the Bible, Numbers 23:23, and recorded on a paper tape, the phrase had been suggested to Morse by Annie Ellsworth, the young daughter of a friend. The success of the experiment would change forever the national communication system. But Morse wasn't just interested in the telegraph. |
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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is born ... It’s the birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of master sleuth Sherlock Holmes. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] Doyle was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he met Dr. Joseph Bell, a teacher with extraordinary deductive reasoning power. Bell partly inspired Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes years later. His first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, was published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887. Starting in 1891, a series of Holmes stories appeared in The Strand magazine. Holmes enabled Doyle to leave his medical practice in 1891 and devote himself to writing. |
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1521. Magellan killed in the Philippines ... On this day, after traveling three-quarters of the way around the globe, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan is killed during a tribal skirmish on Mactan Island in the Philippines. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] Earlier in the month, his ships had dropped anchor at the Philippine island of Cebu, and Magellan met with the local chief, who after converting to Christianity persuaded the Europeans to assist him in conquering a rival tribe on the neighboring island of Mactan. In the subsequent fighting, Magellan was hit by a poisoned arrow and left to die by his retreating comrades. |
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1719. Robinson Crusoe is published... Daniel Defoe’s fictional work "The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" was published on this day. Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. It is generally seen as a contender for the first English novel. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] The book, about a shipwrecked sailor who spends 28 years on a deserted island, is based on the experiences of shipwreck victims and of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor who spent four years on a small island off the coast of South America in the early 1700s. |
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British explorer Captain James Cook first sights Australia ... On the 19th April 1770, the British explorer Captain James Cook first caught sight of Australia. The problem was, Cook and his crew had been at sea for nearly 2 years, having sailed west from Britain across the Atlantic to South America, and then onwards across the southern Pacific. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] By the time they arrived on the south-east coast of Australia, they had – in a calendar – skipped a day. According to some sources, therefore, Cook arrived in Australia on April 20th. |
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1513. Ponce de Leon discovers Florida ... On this day near present-day St. Augustine, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon comes ashore on the Florida coast, and claims the territory for the Spanish crown. Although other European navigators may have sighted the Florida peninsula before, Ponce de Leon is credited with the first recorded landing and the first detailed exploration of the Florida coast. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] The Spanish explorer was searching for the “Fountain of Youth,” a fabled water source that was said to bring eternal youth. Ponce de Leon named the peninsula he believed to be an island “La Florida” because his discovery came during the time of the Easter feast, or Pascua Florida. |
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 845. Siege of Paris ... The Siege of Paris and the Sack of Paris of March 28. 845 was the culmination of a Viking invasion of the kingdom of the West Franks. The Viking forces were led by a Danish chieftain named "Reginherus", or Ragnar, who traditionally has been identified with the legendary saga character Ragnar Lodbrok. Ragnar's fleet of 120 Viking ships, carrying thousands of men, entered the Seine in March and proceeded sailing up the river. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] The West Frankish king Charles the Bald assembled a smaller army in response, but as the Vikings defeated one division, comprising half of the army, the remaining forces retreated. The Vikings reached Paris at the end of the month, during Easter. After plundering and occupying the city, the Vikings finally withdrew after receiving a ransom payment of 7,000 French livres (2,570 kilograms or 5,670 pounds) of silver and gold from Charles the Bald. |
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1st successful blood transfusion ... On 27 March 1914, Belgian doctor Albert Hustin conducted the first non-direct transfusion, using sodium citrate as an anticoagulant. Initially, blood transfusions needed to be made directly from the donor to the receiver before coagulation occurred. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] However, in the 1910s, it was discovered that adding anticoagulant to blood and refrigerating it allowed for longer storage times, which led to the establishment of blood banks. |
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March 25. 31 AD. 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus ... Almost the whole world uses the style of counting the years that was invented by the Scythian monk Dionysius Exiguus. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] He was part of a group of Scythian monks, including Joannes Maxentius, who played an influential role in Christian theological disputes between the 4th and 6th centuries. Dionysius invented the Anno Domini count (A.D.) |
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OK enters national vernacular ... On this day in 1839, the initials “O.K.” are first published in The Boston Morning Post. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] Meant as an abbreviation for “oll korrect,” a popular slang misspelling of “all correct” at the time, OK steadily made its way into the everyday speech of Americans. |
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Black Death is created, allegedly ... According to scholars at the University of Paris, the Black Death is created on this day in 1345, from what they call “a triple conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in the 40th degree of Aquarius, occurring on the 20th of March 1345″. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] The Black Death, also known as the Plague, swept across Europe, the Middle East and Asia during the 14th century, leaving an estimated 25 million dead in its wake. |
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The ides of March - Julius Caesar is murdered... On this day, 44 B.C. - Julius Caesar, the”dictator for life”of the Roman Empire, is murdered by his own senators at a meeting in a hall next to Pompey’s Theatre. The conspiracy against Caesar encompassed as many as sixty noblemen, including Caesar’s own protege, Marcus Brutus. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] Marcus Brutus wounded Caesar in the groin and Caesar is said to have remarked in Greek, “You, too, my child?” In the aftermath of the assassination, Antony attempted to carry out Caesar’s legacy. However, Caesar’s will left Octavian in charge as his adopted son. Cassius and Brutus tried to rally a Republican army and Brutus even issued coins celebrating the assassination, known as the Ides of March. |
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William Hershel discovers Uranus ... On this day the German-born English astronomer William Hershel discovers Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] Herschel’s discovery of a new planet was the first to be made in modern times, and also the first to be made by use of a telescope, which allowed Herschel to distinguish Uranus as a planet, not a star, as previous astronomers believed. |
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The Blizzard of 1888 ... On this day the most severe winter storm ever to hit the New York City region reaches blizzard proportions, costing hundreds of lives and millions of dollars in property damage. Although the storm also struck New England, New York was the hardest hit, with the 36-hour blizzard dumping some 40 inches of snow on the city. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] For several weeks, the city was virtually isolated from the rest of the country by the massive snowdrifts. Messages north to Boston had to be relayed via England. Even “Leather Man,” a fixture of New York and Connecticut history who had walked a circuit of 365 miles every 34 days for three decades, was reportedly delayed four days by the Blizzard of 1888. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] Leather Man, who walked during the day and slept in caves at night, was known as such because his clothes were made out of large patches of thick |
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Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone ... On this day in 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention–the telephone. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] In 1875, Bell and his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, accidentally discovered that sound could be transmitted if current ran continuously in a telegraph wire. In contrast, telegraphs were sent by turning current on and off. Bell patented his invention before creating a workable telephone. It appears that he subsequently gained his idea for a successful transmitter from Gray's research, which detailed a liquid transmitter. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] Bell and Watson's first working telephone was a strange-looking device. The speaker bellowed into the wide end of a funnel, which was attached to a diaphragm that connected to a rod. The rod hung down into a cup of acid water, which was electrified by a battery. Voice vibrations caused the rod to go up and down, causing electrical resistance in the liquid to vary. A separate wire attached the cup to a receiver in another room of their workshop, which transmitted this altered |
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