29 January
29 January
January 29 1737 – Thomas Paine, is born in Thetford, England
On January 29, 1737, the radical anti-slavery thinker, pamphleteer, and visionary, Thomas Paine was born at Thetford in Norfolk, England. He was born into a Quaker family to a poor…
January 29 1886 – Karl Benz Patents the Gasoline-Driven Automobile
More than a decade after opening an “Iron Foundry and Machine Shop,” Karl Benz made the breakthrough he had been hoping for: a four-stroke engine powered by gasoline. After attaching…
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