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FEBRUARY 21
1947:Edwin Land demonstrates the first Polaroid Land instant camera
before a meeting of the Optical Society of America in New York. The
self-developing film produces a black-and-white image in 60 seconds,
using chemicals held between the paper and film. The camera would become
an instant hit among amateur photographers.
1866: Lucy Hobbs Taylor is the first woman in the U.S. to receive a doctoral degree in dental surgery, earning it from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery.
1965: Former Nation of Islam leader and minister Malcolm X, 39, is fatally shot while speaking before a crowd of 400 at the Audubon Ballroom in New York. Three men, two of them members of the Nation of Islam, would be convicted of his murder.
1866: Lucy Hobbs Taylor is the first woman in the U.S. to receive a doctoral degree in dental surgery, earning it from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery.
1965: Former Nation of Islam leader and minister Malcolm X, 39, is fatally shot while speaking before a crowd of 400 at the Audubon Ballroom in New York. Three men, two of them members of the Nation of Islam, would be convicted of his murder.
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