At Florida State, Deion Sanders was a three-sport star, playing football, baseball and running track. Under coach Bobby Bowden, Sanders was a two-time All-American cornerback in 1986 and 1987, and a third team All-American in 1988. The Seminoles retired his No. 2 jersey in 1995.
Hayes has first phone installed in White House. On this day in 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes has the White Houseâs first telephone installed in the mansion s telegraph room. President Hayes embraced the new technology, though he rarely received phone calls.
Bell began his research in 1874 and had financial backers who gave him the best business plan for bringing it to market. In 1877-78, the first telephone line was constructed, the first switchboard was created and the first telephone exchange was in operation. Three years later, almost 49,000 telephones were in use. In 1880, Bell (in the photo below) merged this company with others to form the American Bell Telephone Company and in 1885 American Telegraph and Telephone Company (AT&T) was formed; it dominated telephone communications for the next century.