On this day in 1878, Emma Nutt became the world's first female telephone operator when she was recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
On this day in1939, Adolf Hitler signed an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
On this day in1952, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, the Old Man and the Sea, was first published.
On this day 1997 the death of Diana, Princess of Wales was announced by Buckingham Palace.