Marconi operating apparatus similar to that used by him to transmit the first wireless signal across the Atlantic Ocean. (Wikipedia)
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A list of significant dates in New England history:
Jan. 18
Guglielmo Marconi
1782:Daniel Webster, U.S. Congressman, Senator, Secretary of State, Supreme Court advocate, supporter of pre-Civil War sectional compromise, is born in Salisbury, New Hampshire. 1903: Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian inventor of wireless telegraphy, transmits the first transatlantic radio message from Cape Cod to England.
Jan. 19
1809:Edgar Allan Poe, author of “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Raven,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and other literary classics is born to traveling actors in Boston.
Jan. 20
USS Nautilus
1955: The Navy launches the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, in Groton, Connecticut. 1998: Two UMass-Amherst researchers announce that they had successfully cloned two calves.
Jan. 21
1738:Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War hero and founder of the Republic of Vermont, is born in Litchfield, Connecticut.
Jan. 24
Edith Wharton
1639: Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders (the first state constitution). 1862:Edith Wharton, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Ethan Frome,” “The House of Mirth,” and other works of fiction (who lived, for many years, in the Berkshires), is born in New York City.
Marconi operating apparatus similar to that used by him to transmit the first wireless signal across the Atlantic Ocean. (Wikipedia) 
