Telegraph wires linked new York and Boston.
With this, communication became relatively possible over long distances.
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Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali retired for the third time.
Stock markets crashed in New York because of a public panic, which was traced back to wheat crop failure in Argentina.
Cherokee warriors defeated British forces at the Battle of Echoee, during the Anglo-Cherokee War.
James Bond's eighth movie, 'Live and Let Die,' was released in the US.
Illinois became the first US state to make it compulsory by law to wear a seatbelt.
