Isaac Briggs & William Longstreet was awarded a patent for the first steamboat in the US.
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Thomas Edison completed the world's first movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey, was released as a Netflix Original.
NBC-TV premiered ''Late Night with David Letterman."
The first reusable spacecraft called ''Space Shuttle Columbia" broke apart when returning to Earth, and all seven astronauts on board died.
Martin Luther King Jr. and 250 protestors were arrested.
