Jun 27 NY &Boston linked by telegraph wires

Dec 13 Emily Bronte, under the pseudonym 'Ellis Bell', publishes 'Wuthering Heights'

Dec 03 Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his newspaper " North Star"

Aug 26 Liberia becomes an independent republic.

Oct 02 The birth of Paul von Hindenberg, German field marshal and politician

Oct 01 Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet

Oct 20 Little William Nelman poisons his grandfather

Jul 24 Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT

Jul 26 Liberia, setled in Africa by freed U.S. slaves, becomes the first African colony to become an independent state.

Jul 01 Amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers 2nd asteroid Hebe

Jul 02 Envelope bearing the first US 10. stamps, still exists today

Jul 01 K L Hencke discovers asteroid #6 Hebe

Jul 01 US postage stamps go on sale, 5. Franklin & 10. Washington, NYC

Jul 06 SS Sea King, this paddle steamer which was plying the ferry trade between Belfast and Liverpool when it ran aground on the eastern end of Mew Island, Belfast Lough. It proven impossible to refloat her and she rolled over filled with water and sank, but there was no loss of life.

Jul 26 Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society

Jul 10 Urbain J.J. Leverrier & John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune meet for first time at home of John Herschel

Jul 24 Rotary-type printing press patented by Richard March Hoe, NYC

Mar 03 Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps

Mar 25 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland"

Mar 10 The first money minted in Hawaii

Mar 01 Michigan becomes first English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)

Mar 29 12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico

Mar 09 Commodore David Connor leads successful amphibious assault near Vera Cruz, Mexico

Mar 03 Alexander Graham Bell speech therapist, audiologist, inventor, was born on this day in Edinburgh Scotland

Mar 18 First Dutch public telegram

Mar 07 US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico

Mar 17 Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "Macbeth" is produced (Florence)

Mar 03 The birth of Alexander Graham Bell, American inventor of the telephone

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