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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]]''. | ||
||1916 – Hiram Maxim, American-English engineer, invented the Maxim gun (b. 1840) | ||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.[1][2] 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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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.