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EVENTS: In 1888 George Eastman registered the trademark Kodak and took out a patent for the first roll-film camera; in 1909 the first Boy Scout rally was held at Crystal Palace, South London.

BIRTHS: Pindar, Greek lyric poet, born in Thebes, 518 BC; Anton Bruckner, composer, born in Ansfelden, Austria, 1824; Edward Dmytryk, American film director, born in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada, 1908.

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DEATHS: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, died in Cornbury, Oxfordshire, 1588; Edvard Grieg, composer, died in Bergen, Norway, 1907.