Tuesday, November 24th
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Today's Highlights in History
On Nov. 24, 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy. (Go to article.)
On Nov. 24, 1888, Dale Carnegie, the author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People", was born. Following his death on Nov. 1, 1955, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
On November 24, 1883, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the new Brooklyn Bridge. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)
On this date in:
1784 Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States, was born in Orange County, Va.
1871 The National Rifle Association was incorporated.
1925 Conservative author and editor William F. Buckley Jr. was born in New York.
1947 A group of writers, producers and directors that became known as the "Hollywood 10" was cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about alleged Communist influence in the movie industry.
1950 The musical "Guys and Dolls," based on the writings of Damon Runyon and featuring songs by Frank Loesser, opened on Broadway.
1859 British naturalist Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," which explained his theory of evolution.
1969 Apollo 12 returned to Earth after the second manned mission to the moon.
1971 Hijacker D.B. Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 over Washington state with $200,000 in ransom. His fate remains unknown.
1985 The hijacking of an Egyptair jetliner parked on the ground in Malta ended with 60 deaths when Egyptian commandos stormed the plane; two of the dead were shot by the hijackers.
1987 The United States and the Soviet Union agreed to scrap shorter- and medium-range missiles in the first superpower treaty to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons.
1989 Czechoslovakia's hard-line party leadership resigned after more than a week of protests against its policies.
1991 Rock singer Freddie Mercury of Queen died at age 45 of pneumonia brought on by AIDS.
1992 Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger pleaded innocent to making a false statement in the Iran-Contra affair.
1998 America Online confirmed it was buying Netscape Communications in a deal ultimately worth $10 billion.
2000 The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider George W. Bush's appeal against the hand recounting of presidential ballots in Florida.
2003 A jury in Virginia Beach, Va., sentenced John Allen Muhammad to death for the Washington-area sniper shootings. (Muhammad was executed in 2009.)
Current Birthdays
Katherine Heigl turns 31 years old today.
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello Actress Katherine Heigl ("Grey's Anatomy") turns 31 years old today.
74 Ron Dellums
Former U.S. Rep., D-Calif.
71 Oscar Robertson
Bsaketball Hall of Famer
69 Johnny Carver
Country singer
68 Pete Best
Rock musician
68 Donald "Duck" Dunn
Rock musician (Booker T. and the MG's)
67 Billy Connolly
Actor, comedian
67 Marlin Fitzwater
Former White House press secretary
65 Dan Glickman
President of the Motion Picture Association of America
64 Lee Michaels
Rock singer
62 Dwight Schultz
Actor
59 Stanley Livingston
Actor ("My Three Sons")
54 Clem Burke
Rock musician (Blondie)
53 Terry Lewis
Record producer
53 Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Actor
52 Denise Crosby
Actress
47 Shae D'Lyn
Actress
47 John Squire
Rock musician (The Stone Roses)
47 Gary Stonadge
Rock musician (Big Audio)
45 Garret Dillahunt
Actor
39 Chad Taylor
Rock musician (Live)
38 Lola Glaudini
Actress
36 Danielle Nicolet
Actress
19 Sarah Hyland
Actress ("Modern Family")
Historic Birthdays
Dale Carnegie
11/24/1888 - 11/1/1955
American author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People"
(Go to obit.)
44 Benedict Spinoza
11/24/1632 - 2/21/1677
Dutch philosopher
54 Laurence Sterne
11/24/1713 - 3/18/1768
Irish-born English novelist
70 Junipero Serra
11/24/1713 - 8/28/1784
Spanish missionary
65 Zachary Taylor
11/24/1784 - 7/9/1850
12th president of the United States (1849-50)
74 Cass Gilbert
11/24/1859 - 5/17/1934
American architect; designed the U.S. Supreme Court Building
36 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
11/24/1864 - 9/9/1901
French artist
48 Scott Joplin
11/24/1868 - 4/1/1917
American ragtime composer
78 Alben Barkley
11/24/1877 - 4/30/1956
American vice president under President Harry S. Truman
78 Itzhak Ben-Zvi
11/24/1884 - 4/23/1963
Second president of Israel (1952-63)
86 Margaret Anderson
11/24/1886 - 10/18/1973
American founder and editor of The Little Review magazine
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