Thomas Edison completed the world’s first movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
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An atomic bomb explosion was aired on TV for the first time.
The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
Martin Luther King Jr. and 250 protestors were arrested.
Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi was removed from power by a military coup d'état.
Mary Queen of Scots received the death sentence from cousin Queen Elizabeth I.
