Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson hold a three-hour public phone conversation.

Bell places the call from the J.J. Walworth & Company offices at 69 Kilby street to Watson, who is at the company’s factory in Cambridge. He begins by saying Ahoy! Ahoy!, the original telephone greeting before being replaced by Hello. The Boston Daily Advertiser subsequently declares, “It was as if the two gentlemen conversed through a speaking-tube. It is not easy to see why, if the spoken word could thus be particularly transmitted so as to be audibly intelligible through two miles of wire, it may not be transmitted through a hundred miles or more.”