2015 Event France�s far-right National Front party has expelled one of its founders, Jean-Marie Le Pen, after continued conflict over his anti-Semitic remarks; current party leader Marine Le Pen, his daughter, seeks to move the party away from its past 1994 Death Baron Marcel Bich, inventor (Bic Pen), dies at 79 1994 Death Marcel Bich, Italian/French baron/pen manufacturer (Bic), dies at 79 1952 Birthday 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 Event J Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen 1945 Event 1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented 1937 Birthday Bill Anderson, country singer, Still, From This Pen 1928 Birthday Jean-Marie le Pen, born in France, leader, National Front party 1926 Birthday Aldo Ray, Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, actor, God's Little Acre, Green Beret 1922 Birthday 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 Birthday 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 Event W B Purvis patents fountain pen 1888 Event John J Loud patents ballpoint pen 1883 Event Louis Waterman begins experiments to invents fountain pen 1830 Event D. Hyde patents fountain pen 1809 Event Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen
