Documents in Year 1858
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Links of Interest:
James Buchanan, Fifteenth U.S. President
(1857-1861)
Statehood
Minnesota (32 of 50 States) Admitted 11 May 1858
Transatlantic Cable
August 4: The Niagara reaches Trinity Bay in Newfoundland; the
Agamemnon enters Valentia Bay the next day. At 1:45 a.m. on August 5, Field rows ashore and wakes the local telegraph operators by proclaiming "The cable is laid!"
August 16: The first public message is sent through the cable, congratulations from Queen Victoria to President James Buchanan. It takes 16 1/2 hours to transmit.
Central Park built by Irish Immigrants in New York City 1858-1860
Literature: Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) working as a cub
for the Mississippi steamboats.
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