In1880 Thomas Edison patented the electric incandescent lamp.The first United States air attack on Germany took place in 1943. Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps in 1945.Heartbreak Hotel was released as a single in 1956. This was Elvis Presley’s first million-selling single.The son of the founder of the company LEGO filed for a Danish patent, in 1958, for the toy building block that became hugely popular.Robert Mugabe returned to Rhodesia, in 1980, after five years in exile.1996 saw Germany celebrate its first Holocaust Remembrance Day.Donald Trump, in 2017, issued an executive order banning travel to the US for seven mostly Muslim countries and suspending admission for refugees.
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