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1915
1915 • First United States coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call, facilitated by a newly invented vacuum tube amplifier, ceremonially inaugurated by Alexander Graham Bell in New York City and his former assistant Thomas A. Watson, in San Francisco, California. |
1935
Age: 20y
birth of childTwila Mae Johnson |
1935 • Eventual Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth appears in his last career game, playing for the Boston Braves in Philadelphia against the Phillies. |
1939
Age: 24y
birth of childRobert Johnson |
1939 • Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Jozef Beck, in London, signs a treaty designed to bilateralize Neville Chamberlain's "Polish Guarantee" of March 31. |
1940
Apr 9
Age: 25y
1940 • WWII: The French government flees to Tours. |
1982
Age: 67y
1982 • A ground-breaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C. |