Today in Rifle History
Weapons Topics: Artillery - Grenade - Machine Gun - Nuclear Weapon - Tank
Historical Events
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1871-11-24 - National Rifle Association organized (NYC)
1874-09-26 - 1st Grand International Rifle match held
1875-12-09 - Massachusetts Rifle Association "America's Oldest Active Gun Club" is founded.
1907-01-26 - The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the oldest military rifle still in official use.
1926-10-19 - John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle
1936-01-09 - Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
1973-05-17 - US performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle Colorado
1987-08-19 - Hungerford Massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide.
2007-12-05 - Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.
Famous Birthdays
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1744-06-04 - Patrick Ferguson, Scots army officer and rifle designer (d. 1780)
1810-11-30 - Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker (Winchester)
1840-02-05 - Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle)
1901-10-02 - [Ignatius] Roy [D] Campbell, South African poet (Flowering Rifle)
1949-11-08 - Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice Presidenf of the National Rifle Association.
Famous Deaths
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1861-08-12 - Eliphalet Remington, American inventor, designer of the Remington rifle (b. 1793)
1899-10-20 - Robert H "Bobby" Gunning, Brit colonel (60th Rifles), dies in battle
1945-01-16 - Dennis Donnini, Brit rifleman (Victoria Cross), dies in battle at 19
1974-02-16 - John Garand, Canadian rifle engineer and manufacturer (b. 1888)
