Template:Selected anniversaries/July 12: Difference between revisions

From Gnomon Chronicles
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
 
Line 41: Line 41:


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.
Line 67: Line 65:


||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.


</gallery>
</gallery>

Latest revision as of 20:34, 6 February 2022

  • 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.

Retrieved from "https://gnomonchronicles.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Selected_anniversaries/July_12&oldid=89599"