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    On This Day in Tech History

    Stories Published April 3 Throughout History

    2024

    Historic Tech Events

    The First Handheld Mobile Phone Is Made

    The First Handheld Mobile Phone Is Made
    1973

    The first handheld mobile phone call was made in New York City by Motorola engineer and executive Martin Cooper using a Motorola DynaTAC 8000x prototype. The gadget was bulky and heavy, weighing roughly 2.5 pounds (1.1 kg). Cooper called Joel Engel at Bell Laboratories, an AT&T subsidiary. The first successful mobile phone call was made during this roughly 20-minute call, making history!

    Martin Luther King's last speech

    Martin Luther King's last speech
    1968

    Martin Luther King Jr delivered his final speech, a day before his assassination. He alludes to the possibility of his death at the end of the speech. The popular speech is among the 100 greatest speeches of the 20th century.

    Osborne 1 is launched

    Osborne 1 is launched
    1981

    Osborne 1, the world's first commercially successful portable computer is released. It weighed 11.1 kg, and used a large bundle of software and represented an advancement of the world's microcomputers at the time.

    First Gen Ipad released

    First Gen Ipad released
    2010

    Known as the original iPad, the iPad 1 is the first device in Apple's iPad line-ups, with over 300,000 of them being sold on the first day of their availability.

    Panama Papers Leaked

    Panama Papers Leaked
    2016

    The Panama Papers, which contained 11.5 million documents detailing financial and attorney-client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities, were leaked. This leak was one of the largest in history, and it exposed the shady financial practices of many powerful individuals and organizations around the world.

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