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As New York City celebrated the Fourth of July, two of the city's most infamous gangs engaged in a deadly gang war. What started out as a small-scale street fight between two rival political clubs, plunged the city of New York into a two-day war between the notorious Irish-American gang, the Dead Rabbits, and the nativist-leaning Bowery Boys. -
He had filed the patent application for an "Improvement in Telegraphy" on February 14, 1876, which was just a few hours before a similar one was filed by Elisha Gray. This patent is considered a landmark achievement, leading to the first working telephone and later the establishment of the Bell Telephone Company.