Mozart’s last opera, “The Magic Flute,” premiered in Vienna.
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Jack the Ripper killed his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
A super-massive iceberg broke away from Antarctica.
Anesthetic was used for the first time on a dental patient by Dr. William Morton.
American animated sitcom 'The Flintstones,' which romanticized the Stone Age debuted on ABC.
For the first time, scientists captured images of a live giant squid in its natural environment.