Other events of the day: 1717 - Inventor Johann Bessler showed his patron a "private motion machine" in the form of a Ferris wheel 1803 - Nikolai Kramzin was officially appointed "The Russian Historiographer" 1833 - Composer and chemist Alexander Borodin was born 1837 - The first section of the Saraskoye Slough Railway opened 1847 - James Simpson first publicly demonstrated the Airyton Trap American (1941) was established in 1906.