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File:Origin of Species title page.jpg|link=On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|1859: Charles Darwin publishes ''[[On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|On the Origin of Species]]''. | File:Origin of Species title page.jpg|link=On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|1859: Charles Darwin publishes ''[[On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|On the Origin of Species]]''. | ||
||Benjamin Silliman (d. November 24, 1864) was an early American chemist and science educator. He was one of the first American professors of science, at Yale College, the first person to distill petroleum in America, and a founder of the American Journal of Science, the oldest continuously published scientific journal in the United States. Pic. | |||
||Gerhard Karl Erich Gentzen (b. November 24, 1909) was a German mathematician and logician. He made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics, proof theory, especially on natural deduction and sequent calculus. | ||Gerhard Karl Erich Gentzen (b. November 24, 1909) was a German mathematician and logician. He made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics, proof theory, especially on natural deduction and sequent calculus. | ||
||1916 – Hiram Maxim, American-English engineer, invented the Maxim gun (b. 1840) Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916) was an American-born inventor who moved from the United States to the United Kingdom at the age of 41. He remained an American citizen until he became a naturalised British subject in 1899. | ||1916 – Hiram Maxim, American-English engineer, invented the Maxim gun (b. 1840) Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916) was an American-born inventor who moved from the United States to the United Kingdom at the age of 41. He remained an American citizen until he became a naturalised British subject in 1899. He was the inventor of the Maxim Gun – the first portable, fully automatic machine gun | ||
||1922 – Claus Moser, Baron Moser, German-English statistician and academic (d. 2015) | ||1922 – Claus Moser, Baron Moser, German-English statistician and academic (d. 2015) | ||
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File:That Was the Week That Was opening title.jpg|link=That Was the Week That Was (nonfiction)|1962: First broadcast of ''[[That Was the Week That Was (nonfiction)|That Was the Week That Was]]''. | File:That Was the Week That Was opening title.jpg|link=That Was the Week That Was (nonfiction)|1962: First broadcast of ''[[That Was the Week That Was (nonfiction)|That Was the Week That Was]]''. | ||
File:Lee Harvey Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby as Oswald is being moved by police, 1963.jpg | File:Lee Harvey Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby as Oswald is being moved by police, 1963.jpg|link=Lee Harvey Oswald (nonfiction)|1963: In the first live, televised murder, [[Lee Harvey Oswald (nonfiction)|Lee Harvey Oswald]], the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by [[Jack Ruby (nonfiction)|Jack Ruby]], a nightclub operator, in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. Oswald was being led by two detectives to an armored car to take him to the nearby county jail. | ||
||1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon. | ||1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon. | ||
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1632: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza born. He will lay the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.
1639: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus.
1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1962: First broadcast of That Was the Week That Was.
1963: In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby, a nightclub operator, in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. Oswald was being led by two detectives to an armored car to take him to the nearby county jail.
