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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.
1654 – Arauco War: A Spanish army is defeated by local Mapuche-Huilliches as it tries to cross Bueno River in Southern Chile. [7]1759 – The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of Unum Group), is incorporated in Philadelphia ...
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The Skirmish at Blackwater Creek, also known as the Skirmish at Milford, was an American Civil War skirmish that took place in central Missouri on December 19, 1861 [1] near present-day Valley City. It was a victory for the North.
The Battle of Blackburn's Ford (also known as the Skirmish at Blackburn's Ford) [2] took place on July 18, 1861, in the Confederate state of Virginia, as part of the Manassas campaign of the American Civil War.
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)
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.
Halford Mackinder, geographer (died 1947) Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician (died 1947) 19 February – Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne, general (died 1929) 23 April – Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, soldier, administrator (died 1936) 12 June – William Attewell, cricketer (died 1927) 16 June – Edith Aitken, headmistress (died 1940 ...