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||1493: Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published. | ||1493: Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published. Pic: woodcut. | ||
||1682: Jean Picard dies ... priest and astronomer. | ||1664: Stefano della Bella dies ... engraver and etcher. Pic. | ||
||1682: Jean Picard dies ... priest and astronomer. Pic: sundial. | |||
File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1854: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. | File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1854: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. | ||
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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.
2017: The San Pietro scrying engine, among the most popular computational shrines of San Pietro in Vincoli, is used to process Spirograph data after hours "on a lark". Traditionalists call it "dispectful", but the Pope gives his blessing.
