Tag: 50th
Happy 50th birthday to the cellphone: inventor remembers the first mobile call
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube April 3, 2023, marked 50 years since the world’s first cellphone call was made in New York. Martin Cooper was the engineer with US telecommunications company Motorola who made the call in 1973. While recalling the moment that revolutionised global communications, Cooper said he expects phones of the future might one day evolve to be “distributed…
Readout of White House Meeting with State Legislative Leaders on Reproductive Rights Ahead of the 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
Ahead of the 50th Anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, Jennifer Klein, Assistant to the President and Director of the Gender Policy Council, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Senior Advisor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, and Carmel Martin, Deputy Assistant to the President and Domestic Policy Advisor to the Vice President, convened legislative leaders from…
Northern Ireland commemorates 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday
Fifty years since one of the worst massacres in Britain, residents in Londonderry, also known as Derry, have marked the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when British troops opened fire on civil rights protesters and gave way to decades of chaos in Northern Ireland. On January 30, 1972, a British elite parachute regiment shot 14 Catholic marchers dead on the streets of Northern Ireland’s second-largest city….