Archive for September 5th, 2022

OUTLAW WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1847

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Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882)

Seen by some as a vicious murderer and by others as a gallant
Robin Hood, the famous outlaw Jesse Woodson James was
born on September 5, 1847, in Clay County,
Missouri.


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PERSEVERANCE OF A DANISH TOY MAKER

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Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen
(7 April 1891 – 11 March 1958)

In 1932, Ole founded the construction toy company The Lego
Group
. He toiled away in Billund, Denmark, for decades before
creating Leg Godt, which means “play well.” His workshop was destroyed by fire twice. He endured bankruptcy and a world war
that caused a shortage of materials.

Finally, in the late 1940s, Ole Christiansen landed on the idea for
self-locking plastic bricks. By the time Ole Kirk died in 1958,
Legos was on the verge of becoming a household word.

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Christiansen in his work shop, 1943.

LEGO products in 1932
First LEGO product line (1932)
      
      
      
      
      
      
     

Founder Ole Kirk Christiansen (center) with his sons.

First LEGO Automatic Binding Bricks

First LEGO bricks

LEGO Automatic Binding Bricks

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NOVEL PUBLISHED IN THE U.S. ON THIS DAY

Doctor Zhivago first edition Pantheon 1958 image 1

Boris Pasternak’s romantic novel, Doctor Zhivago is published
in the United States on September 5, 1958. The book was banned
in the
Soviet Union, but still won the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1958.

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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
(29 January] 1890 – 30 May 1960)

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