On this day in history
November 24
American
1963Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald live on television in the Dallas police basement.
Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald live on television in the Dallas police basement.
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1971A man calling himself D B Cooper hijacks a plane over Washington, parachutes out with 200,000 dollars, and is …
A man calling himself D B Cooper hijacks a plane over Washington, parachutes out with 200,000 dollars, and is never found.
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World
1859Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species in London, and biology is never the same.
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species in London, and biology is never the same.
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1639Jeremiah Horrocks makes the first recorded observation of a transit of Venus, in a date kept by the Julian cal…
Jeremiah Horrocks makes the first recorded observation of a transit of Venus, in a date kept by the Julian calendar then in use in England.
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1965Joseph Mobutu seizes power in the Congo in a coup, beginning 32 years of kleptocratic rule.
Joseph Mobutu seizes power in the Congo in a coup, beginning 32 years of kleptocratic rule.
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