CalendarZ

  1. Home
  2. On This Day
  3. May
  4. 24
  5. William F. Albright

Births on May 24

William F. Albright
1891May, 24

William F. Albright

William F. Albright, American archaeologist, philologist, and scholar (d. 1971)
William Foxwell Albright (May 24, 1891– September 19, 1971) was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics.

References

Choose Another Date

Events on 1891

  • 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.