Inventor William Gray received a patent for creating the telephone that uses coins to operate it.
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A three-year-old boy from Dublin became the world's youngest heart and lung transplant patient.
South Park premiered on Comedy Central, with the first episode titled 'Cartman Gets an Anal Probe.'
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani became the world’s first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics.
Berlin's city became entirely divided in two, with all borders sealed between the east and west.
Carl Gustav Witt discovered the first near-Earth asteroid, 433 Eros.
