1846CE
Invention
New York and Boston Linked by Telegraph
The first telegraph line connecting New York City and Boston is officially completed and successfully transmits its first message.
The first telegraph line connecting New York City and Boston is officially completed and successfully transmits its first message.
Helen Keller, who would become a renowned author, political activist, and lecturer despite being deaf and blind from a young age, is born in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
Canadian-American Joshua Slocum arrives in Newport, Rhode Island, completing the first single-handed circumnavigation of the world aboard his sloop, the Spray.