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