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1831 — Scottish-Canadian inventor and arms designer James Paris Lee, best known for inventing the bolt action that made Lee-Metfords Lee-Enfields possible, is born in Hawick, Scotland. 1909 — The Tobin Arms Manufacturing Company, Limited, was incorporated with its principal place of business in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. 2002 — Longtime civil rights activist and Second Amendment advocate Charlton Heston publicly announced he was diagnosed with symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's disease.