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2012 Event - The European Physical Society's annual Edison Volta Prize is awarded to CERN Director General, Rolf-Dieter Heuer

1997 Event - Edison International purchases Anaheim Stadium naming rights for $50M

1996 Death - Edison Vasalievich Denisov, composer, dies at 67

1992 Death - Theo Edison, son of Thomas Edison, dies at 94

1991 Event - "Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 126 performances

1990 Event - "Those Were The Days" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 126 performances

1990 Event - "Change in the Heir" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 16 performances

1990 Event - "Change in the Heir" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 16 performances

1989 Event - "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 5959 performances

1982 Event - U.S. submarine Thomas Edison collides with U.S. Navy destroyer in So China Sea

1976 Event - "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 5959 performances

1975 Event - "Boccaccio" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 7 performances

1975 Event - "Boccaccio" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 7 performances

1972 Event - "Hard Job Being God" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 6 performances

1972 Event - "Hard Job Being God" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 6 performances

1972 Event - "That's Entertainment" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 4 performances

1972 Event - "That's Entertainment" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 4 performances

1972 Event - "Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 144 performances

1971 Event - "Only Fools Are Sad" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 144 performances

1971 Event - "Johnny Johnson" opens/closes at Edison Theater New York City for 1 performance

1970 Event - Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St. New York City

1969 Death - Charles Edison, American Businessman

1940 Birthday - Edison Pele, Brazil, soccer player extraordinaire, New York Cosmos

1931 Death - Thomas Edison,

1931 Death - Thomas A. Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, New Jersey, at 84

1929 Birthday - Edison Vasalievich Denisov, composer

1926 Event - Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies

1915 Event - Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations

1894 Event - 1st public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)

1894 Event - Thomas Edison presents "peep show" device

1894 Event - "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters

1893 Event - 1st movie close-up, of a sneeze, Edison studio, West Orange, New Jersey

1893 Event - Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey

1892 Event - U.S. Patent Office says J. W. Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp

1891 Event - Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)

1891 Event - Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera

1890 Birthday - Charles Edison, American Businessman

1889 Event - Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture

1882 Event - 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison

1880 Event - Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp

1879 Event - Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp

1879 Event - Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park

1879 Event - Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb

1879 Event - Thomas Edison demonstrates electric light

1878 Event - Edison makes electricity available for household usage

1878 Event - Edison Electric Light Company incorporated

1878 Event - Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph)

1877 Event - Thomas Edison patents phonograph

1877 Event - Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone

1877 Event - 1st sound recording made (Thomas Edison)

1877 Event - Thomas Edison demonstrates hand-cranked phonograph

1877 Event - Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph)

1877 Event - Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device

1876 Event - Thomas Edison patents mimeograph

1869 Event - Voting machine patented by Thomas A. Edison

1868 Event - Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine

1847 Birthday - Thomas A. Edison, born in Milan, Ohio, American Inventor

1838 Birthday - Margaret Knight, inventor, "the female Thomas Edison"

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