1876 Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call. He finds a way of converting words into electrical current and back again and sends his first message using his new variable-liquid resistance transmitter.

1945 Some 300 American B-29s bomb Tokyo at night with almost 2,000 tons of incendiaries killing 100,000 people.

March 11, 1985 The Soviet Union announces the March 10 death of leader, Konstantin Chernenko. Mikhail S. Gorbachev is