THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh this day in 1847, was an audiologist who in his career was granted 18 individual patents and 12 with collaborators but was best known as the inventor of the telephone (1876).
"Mr. Watson, come here. I want you!"
Purportedly the message of the first telephone call, sent by Alexander Graham Bell to his assistant Thomas Watson on March 10, 1876
Steve Fossett's circumnavigation of Earth
Steve Fossett waving after landing in Salinas, Kansas, on March 3, 2005, having become the first …
2005: On this day in 2005, American adventurer Steve Fossett became the first person to complete a solo nonstop circumnavigation of the globe without refueling when he landed in Kansas after more than 67 hours in flight.
1934: American bank robber John Dillinger made a daring escape from prison at Crown Point, Indiana.
1923: The first issue of the American weekly newsmagazine Time was published.
1918: The second of two treaties of Brest-Litovsk concluded hostilities between the Central Powers and Soviet Russia during World War I.
1861: The Russian emperor Alexander II issued the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing the serfs from slavery.
1820: Henry Clay helped win passage of the Missouri Compromise, which divided the United States over the issue of slavery for years afterward.
1671: The Paris Opéra first opened, with a performance of Pomone by composer Robert Cambert. |
