Time Capsule: October 21st, 10/21/2006, 12:30 am

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Time Capsule: October 21st

Date:

Saturday October 21, 2006 Time:

12:30 am - 12:30 am

Repeats:

This event repeats every year.

Description:

On this day in:2137 -BC-, the first recorded total eclipse of the sun took place. (China). 1520, Magellan entered the strait which currently bears his name. 1879, Edison perfected the carbonized cotton filament light bulb. 1915, the first transatlantic radiotelephone message (Arlington, Virginia to Paris) took place. 1918, Margaret Owen set the world typing speed record of 170 words per minute (for 1 min). 1923, the Deutsches Museum, Munchen, opened the first Walther Bauersfeld Zeiss Planetarium. 1945, women in France were allowed to vote for the first time

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