This Day, That Year – November 9

George Bruce received the first design patent for printing typefaces on this day in 1842.

Did you know that:

• Arthur Rudolph, a German rocket engineer who helped develop the American space program, was born on this day in 1906
• The Cullinan Diamond, the largest ever discovered, was presented to King Edward VII on his birthday on this day in 1907
• Robert A. Millikan confirmed the existence of cosmic rays from outer space in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences at Madison on this day in 1925