Victorian Jewelry at Otis House

Good morning, Beacon Hill! Here are five things you need to know today, Tuesday, Aug. 20:

1. VICTORIAN JEWELRY: Historic New England's Associate Curator Laura Johnson will be giving a talk on Victorian jewelry Tuesday night at the Otis House Museum, 141 Cambridge St. at 6 p.m. More information here.

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4. THIS DAY IN HISTORY: On this day in 1911, a dispatcher in the New York Times office sends the first telegram around the world via commercial service. Exactly 66 years later, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sends a different kind of message--a phonograph record containing information about Earth for extraterrestrial beings--shooting into space aboard the unmanned spacecraft Voyager II. Information courtesy of History.com.