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

25th September 2021
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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10th March 1876: Bell transmits the first speech using the telephone

10th March 2021
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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29th July 1914: Successful voice test of the first transcontinental telephone line between New York and San Francisco

29th July 2020
Tagged as: America, Communication, New York, San Francisco, Science, Technology, Telephone, United States, USA

The world’s first transcontinental telephone line was successfully voice tested between New York and San Francisco.

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

30th June 2019
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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25th September 1956: Inauguration TAT-1, the first transatlantic telephone cable

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

29th July 1914: Successful voice test of the first transcontinental telephone line between New York and San Francisco

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

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

3rd August 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain

3rd October 1918: Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria comes to the throne

2nd October 1919: US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke while in office

1st October 1949: Mao Zedong declares the establishment of the People’s Republic of China

30th September 1967: Launch of BBC Radio 1 with the words ‘…and, good morning everyone. Welcome to the exciting new sound of Radio 1’

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

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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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