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This Day In History

1878 Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.

Arts

1850 Jenny Lind—”The Swedish Nightingale”—a singer of uncommon talent and great renown whose arrival in New York City on September 1 1850 was greeted with wildly cheering crowds.

Military

1173 During the seige of Ancona (Italy), the widow Stamira sacrifices herself in order in an explosion, destroying war machines that Emperor Frederick Barbarossa's forces were using to keep the city captive, enabling her neighbours to venture out for much-needed supplies.

Writing

1773 Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was published in London, England. The collection was the first volume of poetry by an African-American poet to be published. Regarded as a prodigy by her contemporaries, Wheatley was approximately 20 at the time of the book’s publication.