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Today In History - November 24 |
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1859 Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"... |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1632 Baruch Benedict de Spinoza 1642 Anne Hilarion de Cotentin 1655 Charles XI, King of Sweden 1690 Charles Theodore Pachelbel 1712 Willem Bachiene 1713 Junipero Serra 1713 Laurence Sterne 1740 John Bacon 1747 Felice Alessandri 1768 Jean-Engelbert Pauwels 1784 Zachary Taylor 1795 Josif Josifovich Genishta 1806 Omar Pasha 1811 Ditler G. Monrad 1815 James Hewward Trapier 1829 William Passmore Carlin 1847 Bram Stoker 1848 Lilli Lehmann 1849 Frances Hodgson Burnett 1853 Bat Masterson 1864 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1868 Scott Joplin 1876 Walter Griffin 1877 Alben W. Barkley 1884 Michel de Klerk 1886 Georges Vandertongerloo 1888 Cathleen Nesbitt 1888 Dale Carnegie 1888 Rudolf Klein-Rogge 1889 Albert J. Sylvester 1889 Cissy van Marxfield 1892 Isidor Achron 1893 Fern Andra 1894 Herbert Sutcliffe 1899 Jan Adam Maklakiewicz 1900 Cornelius Kee 1900 Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz 1901 Andre Victor Tchelistcheff 1902 Fernand Braudel 1905 Irene Wicker 1906 Andreina Pagnani 1906 Eduard Ludwig 1908 Harry Kemelman 1908 Libertad Lamaraque 1908 Ray Carter 1909 Hans Melchior Brugk 1909 Hotze de Roos 1910 Lennox Brown 1911 Kirby Grant 1911 Walter Goetz 1912 Bernard Delfgaauw 1912 Garson Kanin 1912 Geraldine Fitzgerald 1912 Theodore "Teddy" Wilson 1913 Gisela Mauermeyer 1914 Elise Hoomans 1916 Forrest J. Ackerman 1917 Howard Duff 1917 Richard Bilderback Hervig 1917 Rita Corita 1918 Roley Jenkins 1918 Tom "Stubby" Fouts 1920 Anthony Griffin 1921 John V. Lindsay 1925 Alun Owen 1925 William F. Buckley, Jr. 1926 Alan Owen 1926 Alfred "Fred" Benavente 1927 Alfred Kraus 1927 Emma Lou Diemer 1929 Eileen Barton 1932 Katalin Juhasz-Nagy 1934 Alfred Schnittke 1934 Claudio Prieto 1934 Martin Charnin 1938 Oscar Robertson 1938 Wynne Bradburn 1939 Jim Northrup 1939 Jim Yester 1939 Yoshinobu Miyake 1940 Paul Tagliabue 1940 Wendell Morris Logan 1941 Donald "Duck" Dunn 1941 Gary Boyle 1941 John de Andrea 1941 Pete Best 1942 Bayani Mendoza de Leon 1942 Billy Connolly 1942 Marlin Fitzwater 1943 Barry Milburn 1943 Joel Robert 1944 Claudia Dreifus 1944 Dan Glickman 1944 Jules Deelder 1946 Ted Bundy 1947 Dwight Schultz 1948 Ashok Gandotra 1948 Spider Robinson 1948 Steve Yeager 1949 Anita Louis 1949 Martin Duiser 1950 Damon Evans 1950 Stanley Livingston 1951 Chet Edwards 1951 Gaby Landhage 1951 Graham Price 1952 Brijesh Patel 1953 Tod Machover 1955 Clement Burke 1955 Ian Botham 1955 Scott Mabon Hoch 1956 Doug Davidson 1957 Chris Hayes 1957 Denise Crosby 1958 Alain Chabat 1962 Lesa Ann Pedriana 1962 Randy Velarde 1963 Lisa Howard 1965 Nyla Jane Carroll 1966 Joseph "Run" Simmons 1966 Ledell Eackles 1967 Al Martin 1967 Ben McDonald 1967 Cal Eldred 1968 Dave Hansen 1968 Dave Jukes 1968 Dawn Robinson 1968 Ken Johnson 1969 Romesh Kaluwitharana 1970 Chad Taylor 1970 Chris Hall 1970 Doug Brien 1970 Jason Jacome 1970 Kelly Blair 1970 Lemanski Hall 1970 Nancy Mason 1971 Keith Primeau 1971 Tony Cline 1972 Barry Potomski 1972 Fred Brathwaite 1973 Donny Brady 1973 Kendel Shello 1975 Carly Jarmon 1976 Chen Lu 1977 Kimi Fairchild |
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On This Date in History |
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496 Anastasius II succeeds Gelasius I as the Catholic Pope 642 Theodore I begins his reign as the Catholic Pope 1105 Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes the Talmudic dictionary 1434 The Thames River freezes 1542 Battle at Solway Moss 1587 Battle at Auneau 1601 Earl Mauritius ceases the siege of De Bosch due to strict monarchy 1639 The first observation of the transit of Venus occurred 1642 Abel Janzoon Tasman discovers Tasmania 1643 Battle at Tuttlingen 1655 English Lord Protector Cromwell bans Anglicans 1688 General strategist John Churchill meets Willem III 1703 The first Lutheran pastor is ordained in America: Justus Falckner 1759 Another eruption of Mt. Vesuvius 1832 South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification 1835 The Texas Rangers is authorized by Texas 1859 Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" 1861 The Luik-Vise-Maastricht railway opens 1869 The American Woman's Suffrage Association forms in Cleveland 1871 The National Rifle Association is organized in New York City 1874 Joseph F. Glidden patents barbed wire 1903 Clyde Coleman of New York City patents the automobile electric starter 1905 The Moshav Hertzlia forms in Israel 1914 Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's Socialist Party 1918 Bela Can forms the Hungarian Communist Party 1922 The Italian parliament gives Mussolini dictatorial powers for 1 year 1923 Radio Belgium's first transmission occurs 1924 The first Dutch airplane reaches Batavia 1925 The first radio-broadcast of Dutch KRO: Catholic Radio Broadcast 1930 The first woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight: Miss Ruth Nichols 1935 King George II returns to Greece after 12 years 1938 The National Semi-Pro Basketball Congress authorizes yellow basketball 1941 "Life Certificates" issued to some Jews of Vilna, but the rest are exterminated 1941 Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar 1941 U.S. troops land on Suriname to protect the bauxite mine 1942 Field Marshal Erich von Manstein arrives in Starobelsk 1944 U.S. bombers begin the first attack on Tokyo 1947 John Steinbeck's novel "Pearl" published 1947 The Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists 1948 Ireland votes for independence from the UK 1949 Britain nationalizes it's steel and iron industries 1950 "Guys and Dolls" opens at 46th St. Theater in New York City: 1200 performances 1950 U.N. troops begin an assault intending to end the Korean War by Christmas 1954 Air Force One, first U.S. Presidential airplane, is christened 1954 France sends 20,000 soldiers to Algeria 1955 The first test flight of Fokker's F-27 Friendship 1957 The Cleveland Browns' fullback Jim Brown sets club record of 237 yds rushing 1958 Mali becomes an autonomous state within the French Community 1963 The first live murder on TV: Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald 1964 For first time since 1800, residents of Washington D.C. are permitted to vote 1964 The rebellion ends in Zaire 1965 Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu becomes the President of Zaire 1966 400 people die of respiratory failure and heart attack in a killer New York City smog 1966 The first TV station in the Congo broadcasts 1968 Kathy Whitworth wins the LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational 1969 Lt William L. Calley is charged with the massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai, Vietnam in March of 1968. He is ordered to stand trial by court martial 1969 West German President Heinemann visits the Netherlands 1971 Earl Williams wins the NL Rookie of Year 1971 Dan "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest flight with $200,000 1971 Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison, New Jersey 1972 The U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test 1973 The Miss Teenage America Pageant 1974 Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT 2 Treaty 1974 Jane Blalock wins the LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic 1977 France performs a nuclear test at Muruora Island 1979 U.S. admits that troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange 1980 Ronald Reagan, Jr. marries Doria Palmieri 1981 The first air-launched cruise missile is tested 1982 Orioles Cal Ripken is named the AL Rookie of Year 1982 Yasuhiro Nakasone succeeds Zenko Suzuki as the Premier of Japan 1983 The PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese 1985 Egyptian commandos storm a captured Boeing in Malta and 60 people are killed 1987 Li Peng succeeds Premier Zhao Ziyang in China PR 1989 The Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia 1989 Elias Hrawi is elected the President of Lebanon 1991 The first International flight from Long Island's MacArthur Airport 1991 Rachmon Nabijev is elected President of Tadzjikistan 1992 A Boeing 734 crashes into a mountain in China and kills 141 people 1993 The Brady bill passes: establishing a 5-day waiting period for handgun sales 1993 The End of world, according to Ukrainian sect White Brotherhood 1995 Ireland votes to end 70-year-old ban on divorce 1996 Rookie Karrie Webb wins the LPGA Tour Championship |
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