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1823 — American publisher, journalist, writer and publicist Ned Buntline (as in, the Colt Buntline) was born in Stamford, Delaware County, New York. 1866 — American inventor Hiram Berdan patents the his first variation of the Berdan primer, in U.S. Patent 53,388. 1990 — Canadian engineer and long-range artillery developer Gerald Bull was assassinated in Brussels.