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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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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

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

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

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6th November 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected as the 16th President of the USA

10th November 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates Dr David Livingstone in Africa

4th December 1872: Deserted US merchant ship Mary Celeste found drifting in the Atlantic

21st January 1981: First DeLorean sports car produced (famous as the ‘Back to the Future’ car)

15th September 1830: William Huskisson killed on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

14th September 1814: USA’s national anthem lyrics written as the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry”

13th September 1501: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David

12th September 1919: Hitler joins the German Workers Party

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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

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