1887:Thomas Edison received a patent for his "Kinetoscope," and moving pictures were born.
1888:Mary Ann Nicholls, considered to be Jack the Ripper's first victim, was found murdered in London.
1962:Trinidad and Tobago gained independence from Great Britain.
1980:Poland's Solidarity labor movement had its beginnings when an agreement ending a 17-day strike was signed in Gdansk.
1994:Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltic states.
1997:Princess Diana and her companion Dodi al-Fayed were killed in a car accident in Paris.
1870:The telephone is invented independently by Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell. Bell is able to patent his invention before Gray.
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