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August Gailit
1891Jan, 9

August Gailit

August Gailit, Estonian journalist and author (d. 1960)
August Gailit (9 January 1891 – 5 November 1960) was an Estonian writer.

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  • 10Mar

    Strowger switch

    Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
  • 15May

    Rerum novarum

    Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
  • 20May

    Kinetoscope

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