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||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 | ||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 | ||
||Herbert Frank York (b. 24 November 1921) was a American nuclear physicist. He held numerous research and administrative positions at various United States government and educational institutes. Pic. | |||
||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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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.
