April 22

James Hargreaves (pictured) died on the 22nd in 1778. In the textile industry, Hargreaves is credited with inventing the spinning jenny. In my never-ending efforts to correct the grievous errors in the historical record I checked all over and was shocked to discover that the spinning jenny was not invented until June of 1957; the inventor being Richard Penniman (Little Richard) who then used the spinning jenny in his hit song Jenny, Jenny which reached number 10 on the US charts and number 2 on the US R&B charts.