Video: 'On This Day 7th Of March Alexander Graham Bell - first Patent & First Phone Call. Short Documentary.'
(Tuesday, March 7, 1876) — Alexander Graham Bell, 29, was granted a United States patent (No. 174,465) today for an invention he called the telephone.
(Saturday, March 7, 1936) — “Lights Out” by Eddy Duchin and his Orchestra (vocal refrain by Lew Sherwood) peaked at #1 on today’s Your Hit Parade weekly music chart for two non-consecutive weeks (Mar. 7/21, 1936). Continue reading ‘Lights Out’ by Eddy Duchin peaks at #1 in USA 90 years ago today (Mar 7 1936)
(Sunday, March 7, 1926, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. EST/1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. GMT) — For the first time, extended and successful conversations were held by telephone between New York and London this morning at a demonstration of progress in the transatlantic radio telephone by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the Radio Corporation of America and the British General Post Office.
Video: 'The March On The Rhine Aka Germans March Into The Rhineland (0)'
(Saturday, March 7, 1936, not long after dawn CET) — The Remilitarization of the Rhineland took place today when Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler sent German forces into the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact. Continue reading Hitler sends troops into Rhineland in violation of Treaty of Versailles 90 years ago this hour (Mar 7 1936)
