On the morning of September 17, 1859, a “well-dressed and serious-looking man” walked into the offices of The San Francisco Evening Bulletin and – without explanation – handed over a ...

First airmail delivery in the United States August 17, 1859 from Lafayette, Indiana. How 2nd-round pick Kam Jones can answer Pacers' biggest backcourt question News Sports Indy 500 Things To Do ...

On Sept. 2, 1859, an incredible storm of charged particles sent by the sun slammed into Earth's atmosphere, overpowered it, and caused havoc on the ground. Telegraph wires, the high-tech stuff of ...

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1859: Drillers strike oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania. It becomes the first commercially viable oil well in the United States, the prototype for future oil well construction, and marks the birth ...

In 1859, a South African declared himself emperor of the United States Elon Musk wasn’t the first South African to shape the national conversation. Joshua Norton, a San Francisco cult figure, was.