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28th July 1858: First use of fingerprints as a means of identification

  • 28th July 2021
  • Tagged as: Britain, Contract, Crime, Fingerprint, Identification, India
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On the 28th July 1858 William Herschel, a British Magistrate in West Bengal in India, made the first modern use of fingerprints for identification.

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