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1927Eric Hill, English-American author and illustrator (died 2014)[â ]
Eric Hill was an English author and illustrator of children's picture books. He was best known for his puppy character named Spot. His works have been widely praised for their contributions to child literacy.
1927Claire L'Heureux-DubĂ©, Canadian lawyer and jurist[â ]
Claire L'Heureux-Dubé is a retired Canadian judge who served as a puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1987 to 2002. She was the first woman from Quebec and the second woman appointed to this position, after Bertha Wilson. Previously, she had been one of the first woman lawyers to handle divorce cases, and was the first woman appointed as a judge to the Quebec Superior Court and the Quebec Court of Appeal.
1927The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.[â ]
Philo Taylor Farnsworth, "The father of television", was the American inventor and pioneer who was granted the first patent for the television by the United States Government.
On outlook for naval reductions, and effects of Viscount Cecil's resignation
Sec Hoover obtains pledge of loan extensions for Delta victims
CALCUTTA, British India, Sept. 6. -- Edward F. Schlee and William S. Brock safely descended in their round-the-world plane, the Pride of Detroit, at the Dumdum airdrome at 11:30 o'clock this morning, four and a half hours after leaving Allahabad.
ST. JOHN'S, N.F., Sept. 6 (AP). -The Cape Race wireless station to night reported receiving the following message from the monoplane Old Glory, which took off from Old Orchard Beach, Me., at 12:23 P.M., Eastern Standard Time, on a nonstop flight to Rome.
Starts for Rome from Old Orchard Beach, Me; map; illus plane; pors and careers of fliers; log
A C Seward disputes fossil plant evidence
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