Times Square Theater opened with a capacity of 1,032.
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The US Navy commissioned USS Nautilus, which became the world’s first nuclear submarine.
Jack the Ripper killed his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
A super-massive iceberg broke away from Antarctica.
The 6.4 magnitude Latur earthquake in India killed nearly 10,000 people.
NASA launched the Endeavour space shuttle from the Kennedy Space Center on Mission STS-68.