November 22

November 22 currently has two featured articles: the Magic bullet, because Kennedy was assassinated on this date and Eugene Stoner because it's his birthday.

Featured Article

Eugene Morrison Stoner was born on this day in 1922. The man most associated with the design of the AR-15, which was adopted by the US military as the M16, is regarded by most historians, along with John Browning and John Garand, as one of the United States’ most successful military firearms designers of the 20th century. He is also, along with the Soviet designer Mikhail Kalashnikov, considered by some historians as one of the two men whose work most shaped the events of the last half of the 20th century. The prolific designer of rifles began work in the aircraft industry before taking his expertise, along with plenty of new notions about engineering and alloys, to ArmaLite where his career in firearms design really took off. (Read more ...)

[more] What else happened today

1922 — Eugene Morrison Stoner (inventor of the AR-15, which was adopted by the military as the M16) is born in Gosport, Indiana. He is regarded by most historians, along with John Browning and John Garand, as one of the United States’ most successful military firearms designers of the 20th century. 1963 — American President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. The Warren Commission would later offer the magic bullet theory as an explanation to how one bullet could traverse 15 layers of clothing, 7 layers of skin, 15 inches of tissue and a necktie knot, remove 4 inches of rib, and shatter a radius bone.