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The transcontinental telegraph was completed on Oct. 24, 1861, making possible instant communication between the coasts possible for the first time. It rendered the Pony Express obsolete.
1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century. 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
The Marshall House, Alexandria, Virginia – the place where Elmer Ellsworth was shot to death by Jackson. (photo 1861) James William Jackson (March 6, 1823 – May 24, 1861) was an ardent secessionist and the proprietor of the Marshall House, an inn located in the city of Alexandria, Virginia, at the beginning of the American Civil War.
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February 26 – Godfrey Lowell Cabot, industrialist and philanthropist (died 1962) March 1 – Henry Harland, novelist and editor (died 1905) March 15 – Joseph M. Devine, 6th Governor of North Dakota from 1898 to 1899 (died 1938) March 20 – Wilds P. Richardson, U.S. Army officer (died 1929)
13 May – The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales. [11]30 June – Lambing Flat riots of Lambing Flat (Young), New South Wales [12] 6 July – Robert Palin is hanged in Western Australia following the use of Ordinance 17 Victoria Number 7 to secure the capital punishment of a convict for a crime not normally punishable by death.
The grave of Elmer E. Ellsworth, located in Hudson View Cemetery, Mechanicville, NY Photographs show Colonel Elmer Ellsworth of Field and Staff, 11th New York Infantry Regiment; Marshall House at the corner of King and Pitt Streets, Alexandria, Virginia, the scene of the assassination of Col. Ellsworth on May 24, 1861; and Lieutenant Francis Brownell of Co.
2019 saw the passings of multiple young celebrities — far too many. The death of 20-year-old Disney Channel actor Cameron Boyce in July left fans devastated, as did the loss of rapper Nipsey ...