Baltimore and Philadelphia were linked up by telegraph.
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Montenegro became the 29th country to join NATO.
Registration of US men aged between 21 and 31 began for troops for WWI.
Uncle Tom's Cabin, an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher, was first published.
Isaac Newton was admitted as a student to Cambridge University’s Trinity College.
The District Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional in Montgomery.
