Mar 10, 1876: Speech transmitted by telephone On this day, the first discernible speech is transmitted over a telephone system when inventor Alexander Graham Bell summons his assistant in another room by saying, Mr. Watson, come here; I want you. Bell had received a comprehensive telephone patent just three days before. Mar 10, 1945: The Firebombing of Tokyo continues On March 10, 1945, 300 American bombers continue to drop almost 2,000 tons of incendiaries on Tokyo, Japan, in a mission that had begun the previous day. The attack destroyed large portions of the Japanese capital and killed 100,000 civilians. Mar 10, 1988: Disco sensation Andy Gibb dies at the age of 30 With his knee-buckling good looks and his brothers songwriting talents backing him up, 19-year-old Andy Gibb staged an unprecedented display of youthful pop mastery in the 12 months following his American debut in the spring of 1977. And his star may have risen even higher were it not for the prodigious cocaine habit that derailed his career and contributed to his premature death. With his heart greatly weakened from years of cocaine abuse, Andy Gibb succumbed to an inflammatory heart virus on this day in 1988. He was only 30 years old.
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