Today in History: November 24, Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald

Today is Sunday, Nov. 24, the 329th time of 2024. There are 37 days near successful the year.

Today successful history:

On Nov. 24, 1963, Jack Ruby changeable and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, successful a country captured connected unrecorded television.

Also connected this date:

In 1859, British naturalist Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species,” which explained his mentation of improvement by means of earthy selection.

In 1865, Mississippi became the archetypal Southern authorities to enact laws that came to beryllium known arsenic “Black Codes” aimed astatine limiting the rights of recently freed Blacks; different states of the erstwhile Confederacy soon followed.

In 1947, a radical of writers, producers and directors, who would go known arsenic the “Hollywood Ten,” was cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to reply questions astir alleged Communist power successful the movie industry.

In 1971, a hijacker calling himself “Dan Cooper” (but who became popularly known arsenic “D.B. Cooper”) parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 implicit the Pacific Northwest aft receiving $200,000 successful ransom; his destiny remains unknown.

In 1974, the bony fragments of a 3.2 million-year-old hominid were discovered by scientists successful Ethiopia; the skeletal remains were nicknamed “Lucy.”

In 1991, Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury died successful London astatine property 45 of AIDS-related pneumonia.

In 2012, occurrence raced done a garment mill successful Bangladesh that supplied large retailers successful the West, sidesplitting 112 people; an authoritative said galore of the victims were trapped due to the fact that the eight-story gathering lacked exigency exits.

In 2014, it was announced that a expansive assemblage successful St. Louis County, Missouri, had decided against indicting Ferguson constabulary serviceman Darren Wilson successful the decease of Michael Brown; the determination enraged protesters who acceptable occurrence to buildings and cars and looted businesses successful the country wherever Brown had been fatally shot.

In 2021, 3 achromatic men were convicted of execution successful the sidesplitting of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black antheral who was moving done a Georgia subdivision successful February 2020 erstwhile they chased and changeable him.

Today’s Birthdays:

• Basketball Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson is 86.
• Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue (TAG’-lee-uh-boo) is 84.
• Rock drummer Pete Best is 83.
• Actor-comedian Billy Connolly is 82.
• Basketball Hall of Famer Dave Bing is 81.
• Basketball Hall of Fame manager Rudy Tomjanovich is 76.
• Filmmaker Emir Kusturica is 70.
• Author Arundhati Roy is 63.
• Actor Colin Hanks is 47.
• Actor Katherine Heigl (HY’-guhl) is 46.
• Actor Sarah Hyland is 34.