The first movie projector, correctly named the kinetoscope, was patented by Thomas Edison.
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Micah Rugg patented a machine for dressing bolt heads.
Hurricane Carol hit Connecticut and Rhode Island.
R&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.
North Korea allegedly launched Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite.
Hurricane San Ramón was the second of three hurricanes in a row to pass through and destroy houses and plantations across Puerto Rico, Barbados, Saint Kitts, and Nevis.
