2014 Event Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who has been granted temporary asylum in Russia, claims that his decision to leak classified NSA documents about mining emails and telephone call logs, has resulted in several significant threats to his life 2013 Event The public learns about AT&T's The Hemisphere Project, which gives telephone call data to law enforcement agencies, including the DEA 2004 Death Joseph James Zimmerman, inventor, invented the first electronic telephone answering machine in 1948, dies at 91 1997 Event U.S. telephone tech Richard Bliss, arrested for spying in Russia 1995 Event Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits 1994 Event Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down 1994 Event 1st telephone link between Israel and Jordan 1992 Event 10,000,000 cellular telephone sold 1990 Event New York Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx area code 917 1983 Event Last hand-cranked telephones U.S. went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial 1977 Event ELO releases "Telephone Line" 1968 Event 178,000 employees of U.S. Bell Telephone System go on strike 1963 Event Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone 1963 Event Touch-tone telephone introduced 1962 Event Netherlands telephone net becomes completely automated 1960 Event 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed 1956 Event 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Scot-Canada) 1956 Event Transatlantic telephone cable (Newfoundland-Oban) is used 1956 Event 1st trans atlantic telephone cable in use (Newfoundland-Scotland) 1951 Event 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance 1950 Event Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories 1949 Event Chinatown telephone exchange closed 1947 Event "Medium and The Telephone" closes at Barrymore New York City after 211 performances 1947 Event 1st telephone conversation between a moving car and a plane 1947 Event "Medium and The Telephone" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 211 performances 1947 Event Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Telephone," premieres in New York City 1946 Event 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation 1946 Event SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St. Louis 1942 Event German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers 1941 Event Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol 1933 Event 1st transatlantic telephone wedding (Bertil Clason-Sigrid Carlson) 1930 Event Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service 1929 Event 1st telephone installed in White House 1929 Event 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and West-Indies 1929 Event 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and East Indies 1928 Event 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands and US 1927 Event Telephone service begins between U.S. and Mexico 1927 Event Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York and London 1926 Event 1st transatlantic telephone call, London - New York 1922 Event 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C. 1922 Death Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies 1921 Event President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show 1917 Event Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants 1915 Event 1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent 1915 Event Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations 1915 Event Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (New York to SF) 1904 Event Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms 1903 Birthday Donald Voorhees, born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, conductor, Bell Telephone Hour 1898 Event 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake 1896 Event Dial telephone patented 1891 Event London-Paris telephone connection opens 1891 Event Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone 1889 Event William Gray patents coin-operated telephone 1885 Event American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates 1884 Event 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston - New York 1883 Event 1st telephone call between New York and Chicago 1881 Event 1st international telephone conversation, Calais, ME-St. Stephen, NB 1881 Event Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange 1880 Event 1st pay telephone installed 1879 Event 1st automatic telephone switching system patented 1878 Event 1st White House telephone installed 1878 Event 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston) 1878 Event 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii 1878 Event 1st telephone book issued, 50 subscribers (New Harbor, Connecticut) 1878 Event 1st telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones 1878 Event 1st telephone exchange (New Haven, CT) 1878 Event George W. Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator 1877 Event 1st telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii completed 1877 Event Edwin T. Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm 1877 Event 1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Massachusetts 1877 Event 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston and Salem, Mass 1876 Event 1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires 1876 Event 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson) 1876 Event Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone 1876 Event A G Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor 1854 Birthday Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant, Telephone 1847 Birthday Alexander Graham Bell, born in Scotland, inventor of the telephone 1835 Birthday Elisha Grey, inventor, Telephone
