January 1838

Saturday 06:

Samuel Morse first successfully tested the electrical telegraph.

Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).

In order to avoid anti-Mormon.persecution, Joseph Smith, Jr. and his followers leave Ohio for Missouri.

Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States

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