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||1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
||1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
||John Park Finley (d. November 24, 1943) was an American meteorologist and Army Signal Service officer who was the first person to study tornadoes intensively. He also wrote the first known book on the subject as well as many other manuals and booklets, collected vast climatological data, set up a nationwide weather observer network, started one of the first private weather enterprises, and opened an early aviation weather school. Pic.


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]]''.

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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.

    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.

    1639: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus.

  • 1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.

    1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.

  • 1962: First broadcast of That Was the Week That Was.

    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.

    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.

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