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Richard Bowie Spikes (October 2, 1878 – January 22, 1963) was an African-American inventor.The holder of a number of United States patents, his improvements on existing inventions include a beer tap, automobile directional signals, an automatic gear shift device based on automatic transmission for automobiles and other motor vehicles and a safety braking system for trucks and buses.
In 1988 Dr. Spikes accepted the position of president of the Southern University and A&M College System.-- she not only was the first woman to lead a public college or university in Louisiana, she also was the first woman in the US to serve as chief administrator for a university system. [4]
January 22 – Richard Spikes, inventor (b. 1878) [54] January 29 – Robert Frost, poet (b. 1874) February 11 – Sylvia Plath, Poet, short story writer, and novelist (b. 1932) March 4 – William Carlos Williams, poet (b. 1883) March 5 – plane crash Patsy Cline, country music singer (b. 1932) Cowboy Copas, country music singer (b. 1913)
Dolores Margaret Richard Spikes: Louisiana State University: Semi-valuations and groups of divisibility [122] 1971 (M) Orville Edward Kean University of Pennsylvania: Abstract horn theories [123] 1971 (M) Nguthu John Mutio Syracuse University: Frobenius groups [124] 1971 (M) Eddie Robert Williams Columbia University: The Poincaré lemma with ...
Norbert Rillieux (March 17, 1806 – October 8, 1894) was a Louisiana Creole inventor who was widely considered one of the earliest chemical engineers and noted for his pioneering invention of the multiple-effect evaporator.
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Tommie C. Smith (born June 6, 1944) [3] is an American former track and field athlete and wide receiver in the American Football League.At the 1968 Summer Olympics, Smith, aged 24, won the 200-meter sprint finals and gold medal in 19.83 seconds – the first time the 20-second barrier was broken officially.
Richard Louis Proenneke (/ ˈ p r ɛ n ə k iː /; May 4, 1916 – April 20, 2003) was an American self-educated naturalist, conservationist, writer, and wildlife photographer who, from the age of about 51, lived alone for nearly thirty years (1968–1998) in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin that he constructed by hand near the shore of Twin Lakes.