📅 Steamship Savannah crosses the Atlantic (1819)
Where: Liverpool, England
📅 On This Day: June 20
June 20, 1819: Steamship Savannah crosses the Atlantic. On this day in 1819, the American ship Savannah reached the port of Liverpool, England. It was the first steam-powered ship to cross the Atlantic. Yet its paddlewheels turned only for a short time, and most of the trip was made under sail. Hundreds of boats came out to greet it.
✨ More events on this day
- 1877 💡 Alexander Graham Bell set up the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, in Canada, just a year after inventing the telephone.
- 1895 🏛️ Germany's Kiel Canal opened, letting ships take a shortcut between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea; it is one of the busiest canals in the world.
- 2003 🎨 The Wikimedia Foundation was created to run Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that volunteers around the world write together in hundreds of languages.
🧠 Question of the day
How did the Savannah travel for most of the trip?
- Being towed by another ship
- Rowing
- Sails and wind
Show the answer
Answer: Sails and wind
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Questions
What happened on June 20?
June 20, 1819: Steamship Savannah crosses the Atlantic. It happened in Liverpool, England.
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