Aug. 11 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1877, Thomas Edison described the fundamentals of the phonograph to an assistant and instructed him to build the first one. In 1934, the first group of federal prisoners classified as "most dangerous" arrived at Alcatraz Island, a 22-acre rocky outcrop 1.5 miles offshore in San Francisco Bay. In 1943, German military forces started evacuating Sicily, Italy, under threat by the Allies in World War II. In 1952, Jordan's parliament ousted King Talal for

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