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★07 Sep 1927
American inventor Philo Farnsworth transmitted the first images using his all-electronic television system.

★12 May 1941
German engineer Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, to an audience of scientists in Berlin.

★20 Jan 1942
The Holocaust: Reinhard Heydrich and other senior Nazi officials met at the Wannsee Conference in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish question".

★18 Aug 1948
Australia won the fifth Test of the 1948 Ashes series, becoming the first Test cricket team to go undefeated in England, earning them the nickname "The Invincibles".

★21 Mar 1952
The first major rock and roll concert, the Moondog Coronation Ball, was held at the Cleveland Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.

★09 Apr 1959
NASA announced the selection of the Mercury Seven, the first astronauts in Project Mercury.

★14 Mar 1984
Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Féin, was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt by Ulster Freedom Fighters in central Belfast, Northern Ireland.

★19 Feb 1986
The first module of the Soviet space station Mir was launched, establishing the first long-term research station in space.

★28 Feb 1986
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated by a lone gunman in Stockholm while walking home from a movie theatre with his wife Lisbet Palme.

★27 Aug 1990
American musician Stevie Ray Vaughan, one of the most influential guitarists in the revival of blues in the 1980s, was killed in a helicopter crash.

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