B.W. Gallagher (left), president of the Alabama Telephone
Co., displays the red telephone installed at the Haleyville.
Ala. police station to receive the first 911 call.
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B.W. Gallagher (left), president of the Alabama Telephone
Co., displays the red telephone installed at the Haleyville.
Ala. police station to receive the first 911 call.
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During the Civil War on this day in 1862, about 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Fort Donelson, TN.
The Union capture of the Confederate fort near the Tennessee–
Kentucky border opened the Cumberland River, an important
avenue for the invasion of the South.
Ulysses S. Grant (Hiram Ulysses Grant)
(April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885)
On this day in 1998, President Clinton denied having an affair with
a former White House intern, saying "I did not have sexual relations
with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office.