On this day …

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  • In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for an invention he called a “telephone.”
  • In 1965, a group of more than 600 civil rights marchers were brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Ala.
  • In 1985, the song “We Are the World” was released internationally.
  • In 1986, navy divers located the crew cabin of the Space Shuttle Challenger on the ocean floor.
  • In 1989, Iran and the United Kingdom broke diplomatic relations over controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses.
  • In 2007, the British House of Commons voted to make Parliament’s upper chamber, the House of Lords, a 100 percent elected body.