The first 911 call was placed by Rep. Rankin Fite (right ) the Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives, in the
town of Haleyville, AL. The phone used to make the first
U.S. 911 call is shown on display.

February 16, 1968 sees the first official "911" call placed in the
United States. Now taken for granted as first course of action
in the event of emergency by nearly all of the nation’s 327
million people, 911 is a relatively recent invention and was
still not standard across the United States for many years
after its adoption by Congress.

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On January 9, 2007, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs (above) unveiled
the iPhone—a touchscreen mobile phone with an iPod, camera
and Web-browsing capabilities, among other features—at the
Macworld convention in San Francisco. Jobs, dressed in his
customary jeans and black mock turtleneck, called the iPhone
a “revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years
ahead of any other mobile phone.” When it went on sale in the
United States six months later, on June 29, amidst huge hype,
thousands of customers lined up at Apple stores across the
country to be among the first to purchase an iPhone (below).

Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)