Mrs. DeVoy's Timeline

By tdevoy

  • First Schoolhouse in the West

    First Schoolhouse in the West
    Construction of the first schoolhouse west of the Allegheny Mountains was started in Schoenbrunn, Ohio, by Moravian missionaries.

  • Railroad opens!

    The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad opens the first passenger railway line.

  • Message to Lincoln

    Message to Lincoln
    In 1864, during the Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman sent a message to President Lincoln from Georgia, saying, “I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.”

  • X-rays

    German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen made the first X-ray, of his wife's hand.

  • Colo

    Colo, the first gorilla to be born in captivity, was born at the Columbus, Ohio zoo.

  • Let's Make a Deal

    The last show of "Let’s Make A Deal" was aired.

  • Music

    Meghan Trainor was born.