Template:Selected anniversaries/July 12

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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.

  • 1922: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology."

    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.

    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.

    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.

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