1771 Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Mozart at age 15.
1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1907 Guglielmo Marconi’s company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
1910 Julia Ward Howe (died), American poet and abolitionist (born 1819)
1919 RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America.
1930 Robert Atkins (born), American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (died 2003)
1931 Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
1933 Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
1938 Evel Knievel (born), American motorcycle stuntman (died 2007)
1956 Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer play a famous chess game called The Game of the Century. Fischer beat Byrne and wins a Brilliancy prize.
1956 The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England.
1979 Kimi Räikkönen (born), Finnish race car driver
1979 Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1979 The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services.
2003 The pinnacle is fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, surpassing the Petronas Twin Towers (1,483 ft) in Kuala Lumpur at 1,669 ft and become the world’s tallest highrise.
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