On may 10th 1869 the construction of the transcontinental railroad linking the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads met at that spot.
Leland Stanford, president of the Central Pacific railroad drove the last spike, a golden one with a silver hammer.
The Western Union telegraph system was connected at the same time.
The locomotives, ( #119 and Jupiter ) touched noses and the telegram " done " was sent to an ovation from the crowd that had gathered.
No, it's based on a real person, but the film is Hollywood at its historical worst. I enjoyed the film as entertainment, but from an historical point of view it utter twaddle.
the turning point or watershed event was when new weapons where used such as pionsin gas(Germany) and tanks(France) this brought new light to the stand still on trench warfare.
The Battle of Midway was the turning point in the Pacific War in 1939-1945. The United States crippled the Japanese navy at this battle. They were on the defensive the rest of the war.
There was no single event that can be called the turning point of World War II; the war was simply to large and involved to many people over a very large area to be able to pin down a single key event. Key battles include: Stalingrad El Alamein Battle of the Atlantic Midway Kursk Arnehim Battle of the Bulge Guadalcanal Normandy And many others...
What probably would have happened was Japan might have used the resources to invade Australia, a huge staging point for the allies. Therefore it might have taken the allies longer to move to Japan and defiantly more causalities.
On May 10 , 1869 the track of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific met a Promontory Point , Utah Territory.
The transcontinental railroad was completed.
Wilson's Promontory in southern Victoria. South Point in the Promontory is the southern most point in mainland Australia.
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Promontory Point is in Box Elder County in Utah. It is the site where on May 10, 1869, the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed.
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Promontory Point in Utah is where the Lucin Cutoff intersects with the Promontory Peninsula. The Lucin Cutoff is a railroad line crossing the Great Salt Lake.
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There are two famous locations called Promontory Point.Near Promontory Point, Utah, the transcontinental railroad was completed at "Promontory Summit" (41.62° N, 112.58° W) with the joining of the eastern and western sections. A later section of the railroad, the Lucin Cutoff, passes through Promontory Point, which is at 41.22° N, 112.41° W, slightly to the southeast.Promontory Point in Chicago, Illinois, is a 12-acre manmade peninsula into Lake Michigan in Burnham Park. Its location is 41.80° N, 87.58° W.