1866 Heart's Content, Newfoundland - Cyrus W. Field and his Anglo-American Telegraph Company finally succeed, after two failures, in laying the first workable underwater telegraph cable 1,686 miles long across the Atlantic Ocean to Wales; had set up operations in Newfoundland, and the steamship Great Eastern successfully retrieved and mended the broken cable from earlier attempts. 1762 St. John's Newfoundland - Charles-Henri-Louis d'Arsac de Ternay 1723-1780 captures Fort William Henry at St. John's. Vera Short co-Nfld Lab List Admin homepage: http://www.homestead.com/verashort/ rollcall page: http://amoose4.tripod.com/ Message Board for Notre Dame Bay & White Bay Region, Nfld http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pmtcgah/main_menu.htm