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Morse sends first telegraph message, "What hath God wrought!" on May 24, 1844
1844
Telecom, United States
Formation of International Telecommunication Union
1865
Telecom, Global
Formation of Universal Postal Union
1874
Telecom, Global
Transatlantic cable connects Brazil and Europe
1874
Telecom, Global
Marconi's radio transmission begins a new age of communications
1901
Telecom, United Kingdom
English murderer is caught in Canada thanks to trans-Atlantic wireless message
1910
Telecom, Global
Early radio broadcasting
1920
Telecom, Global
BBC World Service launches as international news service
1922
Telecom, Global
King George V gives first of annual king's speeches broadcast on radio
1924
Telecom, United Kingdom
John Logie Baird gives first demonstration of television
1926
Telecom, United Kingdom
Robert Watson-Watt invents radar to detect aircraft
1935
Telecom, United Kingdom
Three scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories develop the first transistor
1947
Telecom, United States
Telstar I enables the first television transmitted by orbiting satellite
1962
Telecom, Global
Allen & Gates start Microsoft to build software for IBM personal computers
1975
Telecom, United States
Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs create Apple Inc. to build personal computers
1976
Telecom, United States
CNN launches global news service
1980
Telecom, Global
Al-Jazeera launches as international news service
1996
Telecom, Global
China implements first Internet restrictions
2000
Telecom, China
200 million Internet users in China
2007
Telecom, China
WikiLeaks publishes secret documents about U.S. involvement in Afghanistan
2010
Telecom, Global
Encyclopaedia Britannica announces 2010 was the last edition in print
2012
Telecom, Global