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 & occupies Carlisle.
1877 – US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time.
1898 – Irish-born author and scholar C.S. Lewis was born.
1929 – American explorer Richard Byrd and three companions make the first flight over the South Pole, flying from their base on the Ross Ice Shelf to the pole and back in 18 hours and 41 minutes.
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.
1947 – United Nations resolution for the partition of Palestine. On this day in 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution (not implemented) calling for the partition of Palestine into two separate states—an Arab and a Jewish one—that would retain an economic union.
1951 – 1st underground atomic explosion at Frenchman Flat in Nevada.
2001 – George Harrison, formerly of the Beatles, died of cancer at the home of a friend in Los Angeles.
Music: 2010 – “Rolling in the Deep” single is released by Adele (Billboard Song of the Year 2011, Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year 2012).
