Happend on 08. January 1838
Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
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I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
Ted Turner