Facts on 9 November
1731 - Inventor Benajamin Banneker was born.

On this date in 1731, Almanac author, astronomer, surveyor, naturalist, farmer, and inventor of the first clock in America Benjamin Banneker was born in Elliot City, Maryland to a free African American woman and a former slave. Banneker had little formal education and was largely a self-educated mathematician, astronomer, compiler of almanacs and writer.

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