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File:Bisbee Deportation.jpg|link=Bisbee Deportation (nonfiction)|1917: The [[Bisbee Deportation (nonfiction)|Bisbee Deportation]]: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
File:Bisbee Deportation.jpg|link=Bisbee Deportation (nonfiction)|1917: The [[Bisbee Deportation (nonfiction)|Bisbee Deportation]]: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
File:Gambling Den Fight.jpg|link=Gambling Den Fight|1922: Signed first edition of ''[[Gambling Den Fight]]'' sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology."


||1926: Gertrude Bell dies ... archaeologist and spy. Pic.
||1926: Gertrude Bell dies ... archaeologist and spy. Pic.
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||1998: Arkady Ostashev dies ... scientist and engineer. Pic.
||1998: Arkady Ostashev dies ... scientist and engineer. Pic.
File:San Pietro scrying engine.png|link=San Pietro scrying engine|2017: The [[San Pietro scrying engine]], among the most popular computational shrines of San Pietro in Vincoli, is used to process [[Spirograph (nonfiction)|Spirograph]] data after hours "on a lark". Traditionalists call it "dispectful", but the Pope gives his blessing.


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  • 1854: George Eastman born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.

    1854: George Eastman born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.

  • 1895: Polymath Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller born. Fuller was, among other things, an architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.

    1895: Polymath Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller born. Fuller was, among other things, an architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.

  • 1917: The Bisbee Deportation: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.

    1917: The Bisbee Deportation: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.

  • 1935: Alfred Dreyfus dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.

    1935: Alfred Dreyfus dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.

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