Thomas Edison completed the world’s first movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
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The first reusable spacecraft called ''Space Shuttle Columbia" broke apart when returning to Earth, and all seven astronauts on board died.
MP's in the UK voted in favor of triggering the European Union Bill (Article 50), which gave the government the power to prepare to leave the European Union.
The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
Isaac Briggs & William Longstreet was awarded a patent for the first steamboat in the US.
Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, founded the 'Biden Foundation.'
