1856, Granville Woods was born on this day. Wood s was an inventor who held about 60 patents during his life time. Most of his inventions were related to the locomotive industry. He also invented the multiplex telegraph, which enabled a moving train to communicate with the nearest station.
1895, Clatonia Joaquin Dorticus, an African-American of Cuba origins, patents the photographic print wash. This was an improvement on the method of creating photographic negatives for printing.
1903, Somali nationalist leader Sayyid Muhammad Abd’Allah Hassan who engaged in over 20 year old struggle against British imperialist forces, suffers one of his greatest losses at the hands of British forces and their Ethiopian supporters.
Abd’Allah Hassan is widely considered as a national hero of modern Somalia, as he rallied all Somalis irrespective of their beliefs under his command with the sole aim of pushing back the advances of imperialist Britain, Italy and their Ethiopian supporters.
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