Today
: Important things
1880 – First electric lamp factory opened by Edison.
1958 – NASA is created to replace NACA.
1964 – Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains")
begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
1971 – The first brain-scan using x-ray computed
tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson
Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
1989 – Denmark introduces the world's first legal
modern same-sex civil union called "registered
partnership".