In History – 1st roll-film camera patented / Kodak registered

TODAY IN HISTORY - 9/4:

1882 - 1st large-scale test of Thomas Edison's light bulb - lighting of NY's Pearl Street Station
1888 - George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera & registers "Kodak"

1893 - English author Beatrix Potter first tells the story of Peter Rabbit
1957 - Ford Motor Co introduces Edsel

HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO:

1917 - Henry Ford II, automaker (Ford Motor Co)
1918 - Paul Harvey, Tulsa Oklahoma, news commentator (Rest of the story)
1949 - Tom Watson, KC Mo, golfer (British Open 1975, 77, 80, 82, 83)
1998 - "Sex and The City" actress Kim Cattrall (42) weds audio designer Mark Levinson

GOODBYE TO:

1986 - Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) dies aged 75
2006 - Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and television personality attacked and killed by a stingray (b. 1962)

For more events that happened in history this date, visit:  http://www.historyorb.com/day/september/4

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