January 7: on this day in history

Historical events

1. 1782The first US commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opened in Philadelphia.
2. 1894A man's sneeze was filmed at Thomas Edison's studio, becoming one of cinema's earliest recordings.
3. 1931Guy Menzies became the first person to fly solo across the Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand.
4. 1954In the Georgetown–IBM experiment, a computer translated Russian sentences into English, offering an early example of machine translation.
5. 1955Marian Anderson became the first Black artist to perform at New York's Metropolitan Opera.

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