On This Day... Encyclopedia Brittanica was published for the first time in Scotland in 1768, Thomas Edison tested his 'talking machine' (phonograph) with the poem Mary Had a Little Lamb in 1877, Australian Women's Weekly announced it would become a monthly publication in 1982, Roy Orbison, American singer/songwriter, died aged 52 of a heart attack in 1988, and Dobie Gray, the US singer, died aged 71 in 2011.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PLq0_7k1jkSource: YouTube/RoyOrbison