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1989 – Fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie On this day in 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa and offered a bounty for the assassination of author Salman Rushdie, whose novel The Satanic Verses (1988) Khomeini denounced as blasphemous.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent for the telephone. Test your knowledge of inventors and inventions
1946 – The first general-purpose high-speed electronic digital computer, the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), was demonstrated to the public by its creators, J. Presper Eckert, Jr., and John W. Mauchly. Discover how well you know computers and operating systems
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