Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears was a forced movement of Native Americans in the United States between 1836 and 1839. The United States government forced Native Americans to leave their lands and move outside the United States. The U.S. then took over the Native Americans' lands and made the United States bigger.
The Rise of the Instant Messaging Market. In 1996, Israeli company Mirabilis launched ICQ, a text-based messenger that was the first to really reach a widespread market of online users. ICQ allowed for multi-user chats, file transfers, a searchable user directory and more.
By the time that Morse received the message and returned home, his wife had already been buried. His new passion became creating a way to send messages over long distances fast. The first telegraph was invented in 1809 in Bavaria by a man named Soemmering. His device was crude and required decoding a message by means of electrolysis. In 1828, Harrison Dyar created a telegraph that would burn holes in special paper by means of an electric arc. Through the 1830s, a few Americans tried their hand at utilizing the newly invented electromagnet (1825, William Sturgeon) to send signals to ring bells or scratch paper.