Frugal parents mailed their four-year-old child 73 miles from their home to the child’s grandparents.
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Opera 'Alexander's Feast' by George Frideric Handel premiered in London.
Thomas Edison received a patent for his new invention, the phonograph.
The USSR launched the Mir core module, the first module of the new space station.
Captain William Smith discovered Williams Point at the far northeast of Livingston in the South Shetlands.
Nazi Cabinet minister Hermann Göring banned all Catholic newspapers.
