Thomas Edison filed his patent for the Optical Phonograph.
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IMDB (Internet Movie Database) was founded. It was incorporated as a website in January 1996.
The US population reached 300 million people.
Albert Einstein safely arrived in the US after fleeing Nazi Germany.
Iran attempted to create the world's largest sandwich at 1,500 meters long but failed due to a crowd eating it before it was measured.
The University of Greifswald was founded in Germany. It was the second university in continental Northern Europe.
