On this day in 1915, Alexander Graham Bell inaugurated US transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
On this day in 1919, the League of Nations was founded.
On this day in 1954, the first batch of more than 14,000 communist Chinese POWs captured in the Korean War who refused to go to Communist China, arrived in Taiwan to a warm welcome.
On this day in 1961, in Washington, DC, US President John F. Kennedy delivered the first live presidential television news conference.
And on this day in 2008, Taiwan’s Hsieh Cheng-peng and Yang Tsung-hua defeated a Canadian-Mexican team to win the Boys' Doubles title in the Australian Open. It marked the first time that a Taiwanese team has ever won the championship in a major international tennis tournament.