May 24-- Part 1: "What Hath God Wrought!" in 1844

Kind of a special date to me  as I was born this day in 1951.

From the May 24, 2018, Chicago Tribune "On May 24..."

1607--  100 English settlers landed at Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in what was to become the United States.

1686--  Physicist Daniel Fahrenheit, who developed the temperature scale that bears his name (and we use here in the U.S.) was born in modern-day Gdansk, Poland.

1819--  Queen Victoria was born in London.

1830--  "Mary Had a Little :Lamb" by Sarah Joseph Hale published.

1844--  Samuel F.B. Morse transmitted the message, "What hath God wrought!" from Washington to Baltimore as he opened America's first telegraph line.

More.  --Cooter24