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1876

Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."

1903
Jazz trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke born in Davenport, Iowa.

1948
Writer and the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald & eight other women die in a sanitarium fire in Asheville, North Carolina.
She was 48.

1957
International terrorist and founder of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

1959

Tibetan Uprising Day
Commemorates the 1959 Tibetan uprising against the presence of the People's Republic of China in Tibet.

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Today from Chamber's Book of Days