20th August 1911 - First around-the-world telegram sent, 66 years before Voyager II launch

A dispatcher in the New York Times office sends the first telegram around the world via commercial service. Exactly 66 years later, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sends a different kind of message, a phonograph record containing information about Earth for extraterrestrial beings, shooting into space aboard the unmanned spacecraft Voyager II.

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