Upon the conclusion of Bell's funeral, "every phone on the continent of North America was silenced in honor of the man who had given to mankind the means for direct communication at a distance". (2 August 1922)
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Friday 4th of May 1979 (-) — Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion and Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv Elisabeth von Dyck is shot dead by a police sniper during an attempt to arrest her. von Dyck was one of the guards of kidnapped Hanns Martin Schleyer at 'Haus Etna' in Den Haag in 1977.
Thursday 20th of November 2008 — . The Eyes Had it: Surveillance cameras on the corner of the building where Rote Armee Fraktion member Elisabeth Von Dyck was shot in the back and killed by a police sniper on 4 May 1979.