Every day, an untold number of people -- tens, if not hundreds, of thousands -- make mobile phone calls from midtown Manhattan. But when Martin Cooper placed a call from a Sixth Avenue sidewalk on April 3, 1973 -- 51 years ago this month -- he made history. Cooper was making the world's first-ever cell phone call.
HISTORY's Moment in Media: Ringing in the World's First Cell Phone Call
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