May 25th 1944...what?

[gimpy117]

May 25th 1944, i got an unidentified message it said:
What has god wroght. anybody know what this means??

whoops they added a clarifiaction "commerating the 100th year of the telegraph"

[Quillan]

"What hath God wrought?" was the first message ever sent by electric telegraph in 1844. I don't know the precise date, but I imagine it was probably May 25th.

[Khourieat]

24th, apparently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1844#April_-_June

(not a fact necessarily, but probably accurate)

[John Channing]

"What hath God wrought?" was the first message ever sent by electric telegraph in 1844. I don't know the precise date, but I imagine it was probably May 25th.

Remember you are over the date line.

JCC