Albert Einstein safely arrived in the US after fleeing Nazi Germany.
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Thomas Edison filed his patent for the Optical Phonograph.
IMDB (Internet Movie Database) was founded. It was incorporated as a website in January 1996.
The adventure comedy movie 'Around the World in 80 Days' premiered in New York, US.
The Russian Soyuz MS-18 spaceflight landed in the Kazakh Steppe, Kazakhstan.
Infamous gangster, Al Capone, was convicted of income tax evasion.