1587: The beheading that launched a thousand costume dramas; Mary, Queen of Scots is executed for plotting to murder Queen Elizabth I.
1922: First radio is installed at the White House; President Harding spends the morning trying to be the first caller who knows "The Phrase That Pays!"
Pictured above is neither former U.S. President Warren G. Harding or, so far as we know, the White House telephone switchboard operator in 1922.
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