OCTOBER 24
1901:Who'd have thunk it? The first person to successfully travel over
Niagara Falls in a barrel is not your typical daredevil, but a
schoolteacher from Bay City, Mich., celebrating her 63rd birthday — Annie Edson Taylor.
1861: California Chief Justice Stephen J. Field sends a
message to President Abraham Lincoln across the newly finished
transcontinental telegraph line, constructed by the Western Union
Telegraph Company. The success of the telegraph as a means of
cross-country communication will cause the Pony Express to close two
days later.
1931: President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the six-lane
George Washington Bridge, spanning the Hudson River between Manhattan
and Fort Lee, N.J. The bridge opens to traffic the following day. Its
length of 4,760 feet makes it the longest suspension bridge in the world
at the time.
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