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10th March 1876: Bell transmits the first speech using the telephone

10th March 2019
Tagged as: Communication, Invention, Science, Scotland, Sound, Technology, Telephone, USA

On the 10^th March 1876, Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call when he contacted his assistant, Thomas Watson.

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25th September 1956: Inauguration TAT-1, the first transatlantic telephone cable

25th September 2017
Tagged as: America, Atlantic, Britain, Canada, Cold War, Communication, Newfoundland, Scotland, Technology, Telephone, USA

Known as Transatlantic No. 1 or TAT-1, the £120 million system actually consisted of two identical cables to allow transmission in each direction.

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30th June 1937: World’s first emergency telephone number began operating in London

30th June 2017
Tagged as: Britain, Communication, Emergency, England, Fire, London, Police, Telephone

The 999 service was launched in London on 30 June 1937, and initially covered a 12 mile radius from Oxford Street.

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10th March 1876: Bell transmits the first speech using the telephone

25th September 1956: Inauguration TAT-1, the first transatlantic telephone cable

30th June 1937: World’s first emergency telephone number began operating in London

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23rd October 1911: Italian Carlo Piazza pilots the first aircraft to be used in war

16th June 1846: Pope Pius IX begins the longest ever reign of a Catholic Pope

29th October 1618: Sir Walter Raleigh beheaded for treason against James I in the Main Plot

25th October 1940: Benjamin O. Davis Sr. becomes first black general in the US military

21st May 1972: Laszlo Toth attacks and seriously damages Michelangelo’s Pietà statue

20th May 1873: Levi Strauss & Co. patent riveted blue jeans

19th May 1919: Mustafa Kemal arrives in Samsun and begins the Turkish War of Independence

18th May 1291: Siege of Acre signals end of Crusader influence

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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