Thomas Edison received a patent for his new invention, the phonograph.
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American poet Ezra Pound won the first annual Bollingen Prize for his poetry.
A British company sent a 1,000-pound shipment of The Beatles wigs to the USA.
Alcohol was prohibited in Kansas.
An Irish cook in New York, US, infected 53 people with typhoid.
The website Tumblr was launched by its founder David Karp.
