On this day in * 1887, Thomas A. Edison received a patent for his "Kinetoscope," a device which produced moving pictures
* 1888, Mary Ann Nicholls was found murdered in London's East End in what is generally regarded as the first slaying committed by "Jack the Ripper"And since then, it seems hardly a year goes by without another motion picture about Jack the Ripper . . .
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