History for October 11 - On-This-Day.com Eleanor Roosevelt 1884, Joseph Alsop 1910, Elmore Leonard 1925 Daryl Hall (Hall & Oates) 1948, Sean Patrick Flanery 1965, Luke Perry 1966 1869 - Thomas Edison filed for a patent on his first invention. The electric machine was used for counting votes for the U.S. Congress, however the Congress did not buy it. 1983 - The last hand-cranked telephones in the U.S. went out of service. The 440 telephone customers of Bryant Pond, ME, were switched to direct-dial service.
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