January 21, 1900 (Sunday)
- In New York, Mrs. Annie Ellsworth Smith died at the age of 73. "It was Mrs. Smith who, on May 24, 1844, when she was a girl of seventeen, sent the famous first telegraphic message, 'What hath God wrought?' from the United States Supreme Courtroom, Washington, to Baltimore."
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