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2001 Death - William Berry, Lord Hartwell, 3rd Viscount Camrose and Baron Hartwell, journalist, newspaper owner, editor-in-chief of the Daily, Sunday Telegraph, dies in Westminster, London, at age 89 1994 Event - Circulation of Netherlands Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000 1962 Event - Telegraph between Netherlands and Indonesia restored 1956 Birthday - Charles Moore, British editor-in-chief, Sunday Telegraph 1945 Birthday - Max Hastings, British editor-in-chief, Daily Telegraph 1944 Birthday - Robert Iliffe, English publisher, Coventry Evening Telegraph 1933 Event - Mount Davidson Cross lit by Franklin D. Roosevelt via telegraph 1926 Birthday - Leo Derksen, Dutch journalist, Telegraph/Sunday Newspaper 1923 Event - 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies 1920 Birthday - Frank Rogers, CEO, NPA Telegraph 1911 Birthday - William Berry, born in England, Lord Hartwell, 3rd Viscount Camrose and Baron Hartwell, journalist, newspaper owner, editor-in-chief of the Daily, Sunday Telegraph 1908 Birthday - Lord Iliffe, English publisher, Coventry Evening Telegraph/Autocar 1903 Event - Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes 1903 Event - San Francisco - Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use 1901 Event - Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens 1900 Event - Telegraph use between Germany and U.S. begins 1885 Event - American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates 1883 Event - 1st direct U.S. - Brazil telegraph connection 1882 Event - Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in San Francisco 1882 Event - Telegraph Hill RR Co organized 1877 Event - 1st telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii completed 1876 Event - Direct telegraph link established between Britain and New Zealand 1872 Death - Samuel F B Morse developer of electric telegraph, dies at 80 1867 Event - 1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck and Co, New York 1867 Event - 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall 1866 Event - Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long) 1865 Event - Fire alarm and police telegraph system put into operation in San Francisco 1862 Event - Beardslee field telegraph used for 1st time 1861 Event - 1st telegraph line linking West and East coasts completed 1861 Event - U.S. marshals appropriate previous year's telegraph dispatches, to reveal prosecessionist evidence 1860 Event - Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens 1858 Event - Cyrus W. Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable 1854 Event - Marine Telegraph from Ft. Point to San Francisco completed 1853 Event - 1st electric telegraph used (Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos) 1852 Event - Telegraph company opens throughout Netherlands 1852 Event - Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law 1851 Event - Telegraph connection between London-Paris linked 1851 Event - Amsterdam-Nieuwediep telegraph connection linked 1848 Event - 1st telegraph link between New York City and Chicago 1847 Event - NY and Boston linked by telegraph wires 1847 Event - 1st U.S. telegraph co established in Maryland 1846 Event - Telegraph line opens between Philadelphia and Balt 1844 Event - Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line 1844 Event - Samuel FB Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph msg) 1840 Event - Samuel Morse patents his telegraph 1838 Event - 1st telegraph message sent using dots and dashes in New Jersey 1838 Event - Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph 1807 Birthday - Ezra Cornell, founder, Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University 1791 Birthday - Samuel Finley Breece Morse, U.S. painter/inventor, telegraph 1763 Birthday - Claude Chappe, French engineer, optical telegraph |
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