526: Possible date of the Antioch earthquake in the Byzantine Empire (present-day Syria) which killed 200,000 people

1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite army moves into Manchester and occupies Carlisle
Thomas Edison with his second phonograph, photographed in 1878Thomas Edison’s Phonograph

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: First underground atomic explosion at Frenchman Flat in Nevada

Source: Onthisday.com