1876 – Alexander Graham Bell received a US patent for an “Improvement in Telegraphy” (No.174,465) which established the principle of bidirectional signals that made the telephone possible.
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/albell/bpat.1.html
1926 – The first successful Transatlantic telephone call was placed between New York City and London. Transatlantic service began the following year at $75 a minute.
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/march-7/
1994 – The Supreme Court found that 2 Live Crew’s parody of Roy Orbison’s “Oh Pretty Woman” was fair use, and not a violation of copyright, thus ensuring the future of The Onion.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-1292.ZS.html
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