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This Day, That Year – April 30

Zoya Siddiqui   Sat 30 Apr 2022    

London’s Big Ben stopped ticking at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes on this day in 1997. Did you know that:• Italian inventor Pellegrino Turri created the first practical typewriter on this day in 1808• English physicist J. J. Thomson announced […]

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This Day, That Year – March 1

Zoya Siddiqui   Tue 01 Mar 2022    

Yellowstone became the world’s first national park on this day in 1872. Did you know that:• E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York, began production of the first practical typewriter on this day in 1873• Albert Berry performed the […]

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This Day, That Year – February 15

Zoya Siddiqui   Tue 15 Feb 2022    

Christopher Sholes, the inventor of the typewriter, was born on this day in 1819. Did you know that:• Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the first commercial mechanical reaper, was born on this day in 1809• William Henry Preece, a Welsh electrical engineer and inventor, […]

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This Day, That Year – January 7

Zoya Siddiqui   Fri 07 Jan 2022    

William Purvis received a patent for a fountain pen on this day in 1890. Did you know that:• A typewriter was patented by Englishman Henry Mill on this day in 1714• The Marconi International Marine Communication Company established “CQD” as […]

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This Day, That Year – September 14

Zoya Siddiqui   Tue 14 Sep 2021    

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation registered “The Simpsons” television show on this day in 1993. Did you know that:• George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee, patented a typewriter ribbon on this day in 1886• Karl Taylor Compton was an American […]

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This Day, That Year – August 26

Zoya Siddiqui   Thu 26 Aug 2021    

Mother Teresa was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary born on this day in 1910. Did you know that:• Charles Thurber patented a typewriter on this day in 1843• Harry Houdini escaped from chains underwater at the Aquatic Park […]

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23rd June in history

Zoya Siddiqui   Wed 23 Jun 2021    

Christopher Latham Sholes patented the Sholes and Glidden typewriter on this day in 1868, the first commercially successful of its kind. Did you know that:• Antoine Joseph Sax, the Belgian inventor of the saxophone was born on this day in […]

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