On this day in history: 374 - Comet 1P/374 E1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0884 AUs of Earth 1748 - Ruins of Pompeii found 1826 – Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine. 1836 - Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands 1853 - Cincinnati became 1st US city to pay fire fighters a regular salary 1854 – Charles Dickens Hard Times begins serialisation in his magazine, Household Words. 1867 - International Exhibition opens in Paris 1889 - 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago) 1891 - London-Paris telephone connection opens 1919 – The Staatliches Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar. 1927 - 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Masters Voice 1952 - Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow 1957 – The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti tree hoax on its current affairs programme Panorama. 1960 – The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space. 1976 – Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne 1976 – The Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect hoax is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore. 1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp is seen passing over perihelion.
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