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The world’s first telephone directory was issued in Connecticut, USA

On the 21^st February, 1878, the world’s first telephone book, consisting of just one page of 50 subscribers, was issued in New Harbor, Connecticut, USA.

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Golf and football were both banned in Scotland in 1457, because they had become too much of a distraction from the war effort against England.

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The world’s first telephone directory was issued in Connecticut, USA

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