London opened the world’s first public flushing toilets.
The toilet was located at 95 Fleet Street.
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Forty mummies were discovered and unearthed in Tuna el-Gebel, South Cairo, Egypt.
A polygraph test was conducted by its inventor, Leonarde Keeler, for the first time.
The Oxygen TV Network debuted on cable.
The first Sears retail store opened in Chicago.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ferried a US National Reconnaissance Office payload into orbit.
