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A few things happened today in History - none so exciting or devastating as the things that happened yesterday in history (recent and not so recent history).
On this day in 1911, a dispatcher in the New York Times office sends the first telegram around the world via commercial service.
What was the message you ask?
"This message sent around the world."
Sent from the 17th floor of the Times building in New York at 7pm. It traveled 28000 miles, and was passed through 16 different operators: San Francisco, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Saigon, Singapore, Bombay, Malta, Lisbon and the Azores and other locations. Sixteen and a half minutes (16.5) later the message was received by the initial operator that sent the message.
Exactly 66 years later (1977), Voyager II was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. This ship was the first of two launched the same year to begin a 'grand tour' of the outer planets, and was to coinside with the rare alignment that occurred that year between Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
A few other items that occurred today in history:
Battle of Fallen Timbers during the American Revolution.
Horace Greeley's "The Prayer of Twenty Millions" is published during the Civil War.
U.S. Marines are deployed to Lebanon in 1982.