This Day, That Year – November 29

Chadwick Boseman was an American actor and playwright born on this day in 1976.

Did you know that:

• Sir James Jay invented invisible ink on this day in 1775
• Thomas Edison demonstrated his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time on this day in 1877
• The first patent for the invention of the traffic lights system was issued to Ernest Sirrine on this day in 1910