Benjamin Franklin Plaster
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Michael Plaster
Michael Plaster
1813 - 1892
Ruth Burress
Ruth Burress
1819 - 1878
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1840


Oct 28
1840 • The Penny Black, the world's first postage stamp, becomes valid for the pre-payment of postage.

1860


Age: 19y
1860 South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States Union.

1870


Age: 29y
1870 • Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming, becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally since 1807.

1874


Jul
Age: 33y
1874 Walter Clopton Wingfield patents a game called "sphairistike" which is more commonly called lawn tennis.

1896


Aug 20
Age: 55y
1896 • The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.

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