NBC-TV premiered “Late Night with David Letterman.”
The first guest was comedian and actor Bill Murray.
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Thomas Edison completed the world's first movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
Voice of America, the US' official external radio and television service, began broadcasting.
Isaac Briggs & William Longstreet was awarded a patent for the first steamboat in the US.
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.
