Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights leader, and women’s rights activist passed away on this day in 1977 in Mound Bayou, Mississippi.
Quincy Delight Jones, Jr, popularly known as Quincy Jones, is a musician, record producer, songwriter, conductor, composer, arranger, film and movie and producer. He was born on this day in 1933 in Chicago.
On this day in 1794, a patent was issued to Eli Whitney for his cotton gin. The cotton gin, short for cotton engine, is a machine that separates the seeds from the cotton faster than humans did. Up until then in the United States, this was done by hand. Unfortunately, this invention led to an increase in more human labor.
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