Marquis Who's Who Millennium Magazine

9 A Marquis Who's Who Magazine 1 9 2 9 John Logie Baird, a British inventor, secures a patent for fiber optic imaging 1929 Medgar Evers, eventual African-American civil rights activist and Mississippi field secretary for the NAACP, is born 1925 Charles Lindbergh, a U.S. aviator, flies across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris in his single-engine plane, Spirit of St. Louis 1927 John Logie Baird gives the world's first demonstration of television to a group assembled in his attic rooms in London 1926 Alexander Fleming, a Scottish bacteriologist, accidentally discovers a mold that selectively kills bacteria, and calls it penicillin 1928