Today in History

26th September 1887
Emile Berliner, a 36-year-old German immigrant living in Washington DC, applies for a patent on his invention, the gramophone.
The machine was the first to play flat discs as opposed to Thomas Edison's wax cylinder apparatus. The patent would be granted in November.
 

26th September 1960
Connie Francis becomes the first female singer in the Rock and Roll era to have two consecutive number one singles when "My Heart Has a Mind Of Its Own" went to the top of the Billboard chart. It followed "Everybody's Somebody's Fool".
 
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