October 8 1895 – 20 Tishei 5656
German-born American Jewish inventor Emil Berliner opened the Berliner Gramophone company in Philadelphia, having managed to convince a group of businessmen to invest $25,000 to produce a device of his invention for playing recorded music. His device, soon known as the gramophone or phonograph, was the first successful medium for music distribution and was used world-wide until the 1980s.