The website Tumblr was launched by its founder David Karp.
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Thomas Edison received a patent for his new invention, the phonograph.
American poet Ezra Pound won the first annual Bollingen Prize for his poetry.
Nazi Cabinet minister Hermann Göring banned all Catholic newspapers.
An Irish cook in New York, US, infected 53 people with typhoid.
Captain William Smith discovered Williams Point at the far northeast of Livingston in the South Shetlands.