February 2, 1999 Marie Van Brittan Brown, inventor of a closed circuit television security system, died. Brown was born October 30, 1922 in Queens, New York. On December 2, 1969 she received patent number 3,482,037 for a Closed Circuit Television Security System. The system used a motorized camera which slid up and down looking through […]
Archive | February 2, 2011
February 2nd in African American History – Claude Brown
Tags: social commentator, writer
February 2, 2002 Claude Brown, writer and social commentator, died. Brown was born February 23, 1937 in New York City. At a young age, he became involved in truancy, stealing, alcohol consumption, and gang wars. After turning his life around, Brown graduated from Howard University in 1965 with a degree in government and business. That […]