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#ThisDay 1816 - Francis Ronalds built the first working electric telegraph in his garden on Hammersmith's Upper Mall. He offered his new invention to the Government, who dismissed it as being 'wholly unnecessary'. At this time the government was relying on a visual system (the semaphore) and it took a further 20 years for the electric telegraph to be commercialised.
#ThisDay 1858 - The first transatlantic cable was officially opened, with Queen Victoria sending a telegraphic message to US President James Buchanan.
#ThisDay 1901 - Britain's first cinema, the Mohawk, opened in Islington, north London. Films were accompanied by the 16-piece Fonobian Orchestra. At the height of their popularity in the 1940s, cinemas in Britain had average weekly attendances of 30 million.
#ThisDay 1975 - Forestry Commission officials announced that Dutch elm disease, which had attacked more than three million trees in Britain, was spreading.
#ThisDay 1983 - Twenty two members of the IRA were jailed for a total of more than 4,000 years following Northern Ireland's biggest-ever terrorist trial.
#ThisDay 1989 - Number one hit on UK music charts - Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers - Swing The Mood.
#ThisDay 1965 - Number one hit on UK music charts - The Beatles - Help!
#ThisDay 1962 - Death of Marilyn Monroe. Her death is a greatly debated conspiricy theory - USA.
#ThisDay 1914 - "In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed."
#ThisDay 1882 - "Authorising of first steel warships, beginning of the modern Navy in US."
#ThisDay 1888 - Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim in the first long distance automobile trip.
#ThisDay 1879 - "First game of night football at Melbourne Cricket Ground, under gas-lights."
#ThisDay 1858 - Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It operated for less than a month.
#ThisDay 0910 - The last major Viking army to raid England was defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward and Earl Aethelred.
#ThisDay 1100 - Henry I was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
#ThisDay 1305 - Sir William Wallace, Scottish hero and champion of Scottish independence who beat Edward I at the battle of Stirling Bridge, was captured by the English and later executed as a traitor. There is a National Wallace Monument on the outskirts of Stirling. There is also the Wallace Monument in Craigie, Ayrshire.
#ThisDay 1583 - English soldier and navigator Sir Humphrey Gilbert (half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh) established the first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland and claimed it for Elizabeth I.
#ThisDay 1729 - The death of Thomas Newcomen. Newcomen created the first practical steam engine for pumping water from tin mines. Prior to his invention, flooding was a major problem, thus limiting the depth at which the mineral could be mined. This Newcomen engine at Elsecar in South Yorkshire was built in 1795 to extract water from the local colliery. It is the only one of its kind in the world to remain in its original location.
#ThisDay 1925 - The political party Plaid Cymru was formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language which was, at the time, in danger of dying out.
#ThisDay 1963 - A Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed in Moscow by Russia, the United States and Britain. Under the treaty, nuclear tests in the Earth's atmosphere, in space or under the sea were outlawed.
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