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1997 Edison International purchases Anaheim Stadium naming rights for $50M 1996 Edison Vasalievich Denisov, composer, dies at 67 1996 Celeste and Johnny Edison, Assyria and Pele's twins, boy and girl 1992 Theo Edison, son of Thomas Edison, dies at 94 1991 "Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 126 performances 1990 "Those Were The Days" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 126 performances 1990 "Change in the Heir" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 16 performances 1990 "Change in the Heir" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 16 performances 1989 "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 5959 performances 1982 U.S. submarine Thomas Edison collides with U.S. Navy destroyer in So China Sea 1976 "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 5959 performances 1975 "Boccaccio" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 7 performances 1975 "Boccaccio" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 7 performances 1972 "Hard Job Being God" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 6 performances 1972 "Hard Job Being God" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 6 performances 1972 "That's Entertainment" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 4 performances 1972 "That's Entertainment" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 4 performances 1972 "Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 144 performances 1971 "Only Fools Are Sad" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 144 performances 1971 "Johnny Johnson" opens/closes at Edison Theater New York City for 1 performance 1970 Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St. New York City 1969 Charles Edison, American Businessman 1940 Edison Pele, Brazil, soccer player extraordinaire, New York Cosmos 1931 Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, NJ, at 84 1931 Thomas A. Edison, American Inventor 1929 Edison Vasalievich Denisov, composer 1926 Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies 1915 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations 1894 1st public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures) 1894 Thomas Edison presents "peep show" device 1894 "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters 1893 1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, NJ 1893 Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ) 1892 U.S. Patent Office says J. W. Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp 1891 Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio) 1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera 1890 Charles Edison, American Businessman 1889 Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture 1882 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison 1880 Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp 1879 Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp 1879 Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park 1879 Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb 1879 Thomas Edison demonstrates electric light 1878 Edison makes electricity available for household usage 1878 Edison Electric Light Company incorporated 1878 Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph) 1877 Thomas Edison patents phonograph 1877 Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone 1877 1st sound recording made (Thomas Edison) 1877 Thomas Edison demonstrates hand-cranked phonograph 1877 Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph) 1877 Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device 1876 Thomas Edison patents mimeograph 1869 Voting machine patented by Thomas A. Edison 1868 Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine 1847 Thomas A. Edison, born in Milan, Ohio, American Inventor 1838 Margaret Knight, inventor, "the female Thomas Edison"

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