An audience goes to the cinema for the first time, streetcars come to San Francisco, The Beatles' "White Album" goes to No. 1, and the first American test-tube baby is born, all on this day.
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1945: American author Theodore Dreiser, whose best known novels include "Sister Carrie" and "An American Tragedy," dies at the age of 74 in Hollywood, Calif.