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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









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