This Day, That Year – October 17

Thomas Edison filed a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie) on this day in 1888.

Did you know that:

• Felix Mendelssohn’s first Piano concert in G minor premiered in Munich on this day in 1831
• Built by Allied POWs and Asian laborers for use of the Japanese army, the Burma railway was completed on this day in 1943
• Marshall Bruce Mathers III, professionally known as Eminem, is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer born on this day in 1972