Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph message using Morse code across two miles of wire in New Jersey, USA.
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The Grand Canyon National Monument was created.
Astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered the first two moons of Uranus, Titania & Oberon.
Los Angeles was covered in snow for the first time in recorded history.
England drew it's very first lottery outside St Paul's Cathedral.
East Pakistan renamed itself Bangladesh after seceding from Pakistan.
