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Subject: [Q-R] Happy Birthday
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:26:25 -0400 (EDT)



April 27,1791 - Samuel F.B. (Finley Breese) Morse
inventor: electromagnetic telegraph: 1st telegraph message: “What hath God
wrought?”; died Apr 2, 1872
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April 27,1822 - Ulysses S. Grant
18th U.S. President [1869-1877]; married to Julia Dent [three sons, one
daughter]; Lt. General in command of all Union armies during U.S. Civil War;
nickname: Hero of Appomattox; died July 23, 1885


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