Bombs in Hilla and Karbala, Iraq, killed 30 Shias and wounded 100 others.
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Amateur British chemist Sir James Jay invented invisible ink.
Martinique earthquake shook the majority of the Eastern Caribbean.
Thomas Edison demonstrated his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time.
A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Hawaii.
Enos, the chimpanzee, was launched into space on the Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission.
