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||1848 – Lewis Howard Latimer, American inventor (d. 1928) | |||
||1882 – Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age. | |||
||1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film. | |||
||1905 – Walter Zapp, Latvian-Estonian inventor, invented the Minox (d. 2003) | |||
||1906 – Max Delbrück, German-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981) | |||
||1923 – Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah. | |||
||1949 – The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York. | |||
||1985 – The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon. | |||
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