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1994 Baron Marcel Bich, inventor (Bic Pen), dies at 79

1994 Marcel Bich, Italian/French baron/pen manufacturer (Bic), dies at 79

1952 Andy Shernoff, born in Bronx, New York, pen name Adny Shernoff, rocker, musician, singer, songwriter, founding member of The Dictators, punk band, bassist with The Fleshtones 1989 - 1990

1949 J Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen

1945 1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented

1937 Bill Anderson, country singer, Still, From This Pen

1928 Jean-Marie le Pen, born in France, leader, National Front party

1926 Aldo Ray, Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, actor, God's Little Acre, Green Beret

1922 Carl Amery, born in Munich, Germany, writer, used pen name Christian Anton Mayer, studied at University of Munich, participant in Gruppe 47, a post-World War II literary association

1913 Jo Sinclair, born in Brooklyn, New York, pen name Jo Sinlair, writer, novelist, focused on race relations and the struggle of immigrant families, wrote Sing at My Wake, Anna Teller

1890 W B Purvis patents fountain pen

1888 John J Loud patents ballpoint pen

1883 Louis Waterman begins experiments to invents fountain pen

1830 D. Hyde patents fountain pen

1809 Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen


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