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Slavoljub Eduard Penkala
1922Feb, 5

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian engineer, invented the mechanical pencil (b. 1871)
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (Croatian pronunciation: [slâʋɔʎuːb ɛ̂duard pɛŋkǎːla]; 20 April 1871 – 5 February 1922) was a Croatian engineer and inventor of Dutch-Polish descent.

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    Diabetes mellitus

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    James Joyce

    Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
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    Great Fire of Smyrna

    The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
  • 4Nov

    Tutankhamun

    In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
  • 24Nov

    Executions during the Irish Civil War

    Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Robert Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.