This Day, That Year – November 8

Gordon Ramsay is a British chef, restaurateur, television personality and writer born on this day in 1966.

Did you know that:

• German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range, today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, on this day in 1895
• Inventor and manufacturer Harvey Hubbell received the first U.S. patent for a separable electric attachment plug on this day in 1904
• William H. Frost received the first U.S. patent for an electrical insect destroyer on this day in 1910