On This Day

January 1838 in History

Events in History

  • Jan 6 Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail demonstrate their telegraph machine in New Jersey
  • Jan 8 Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out

CommunicationHistoric Communication

Jan 11 First public demonstration of telegraph message sent using dots & dashes at Speedwell Ironworks, Morristown, New Jersey by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail

Inventor Samuel Morse
Inventor
Samuel Morse
  • Jan 26 Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States

Birthdays in History

  • Jan 1 William Hugh Young, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1901)
  • Jan 4 Charles Stratton, [General Tom Thumb] (famous short person)
  • Jan 5 Camille Jordan, French mathematician, born in Lyon, France (d. 1922)
  • Jan 16 Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)

Deaths in History

  • Jan 16 Aleksandr Polezhayev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [OS]
  • Jan 23 Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch vice-admiral/colonial director, dies at 67
  • Jan 28 Aleksandr Polezhayev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [NS]
  • Jan 30 Osceola, chief of Seminole indians, dies in jail

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