526: A possible date for the Antioch earthquake in present-day Syria (then the Byzantine Empire) which killed 200,000 people

1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army moves into Manchester and occupies Carlisle

1877: US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time

1935: Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his famous thought experiment “Schrödinger’s cat”, a paradox that illustrates the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics

1951: 1st underground atomic explosion at Frenchman Flat in Nevada

Source: Onthisday.com