History for the day

On 25 January 1915, the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated transcontinental telephone service in the United States, ringing up Thomas A. Watson in San Francisco, California from New York City, New York.

Rico says this led, of course, to the first 'do you know what time it is?' transcontinental conversation... (And Bell did not repeat his famous 'Mister Watson, come here, I need to see you' line...)