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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.
1917: The Bisbee Deportation: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1922: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology."
1935: Alfred Dreyfus dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
1967: Mathematician Edward Lorenz uses Gnomon algorithm to reveal previously secret crimes against mathematical constants.

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 ||1493 – Hartmann Schedel's ''Nuremberg Chronicle'', one of the best-documented early printed books, is published.