Edison shows off his phonograph, atom bomb testing heads underground, a chimpanzee orbits the Earth, the Pong craze begins, and the world loses another Beatle, all on this day.
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Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions
1999: Game show host Gene Rayburn, best known for hosting various incarnations of the TV game show "Match Game" over two decades, dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 81 in Gloucester, Mass.