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Adolf Busch
1891Aug, 8

Adolf Busch

Adolf Busch, German violinist and composer (d. 1952)
Adolf Georg Wilhelm Busch (8 August 1891 – 9 June 1952) was a German–Swiss violinist, conductor, and composer.

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    Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
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    Rerum novarum

    Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
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    Kinetoscope

    History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.