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||1819 – The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. It is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail. | ||1819 – The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. It is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail. | ||
1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph. | ||1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph. | ||
||1861 – Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947) | ||1861 – Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947) | ||
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1875: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer dies. He designed and invented submarines.
1876: Adventurer and alleged "Pirate of the Prairie" Wallace War-Heels says that he has "offered no man violence", but admits that he has "responded to violence with greater violence, many times."
1877: Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
2010: Unlicensed Extract of Radium factory accidentally releases self-sustaining colony of transdimensional corporations.