1759 - Destructive eruption of Vesuvius
1832 - SC passes Ordinance of Nullification
1874 - Patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire
1954 - 1st US Presial airplane christened
1960 - Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record)
1963 - 1st live murder on TV - Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
1969 - Apollo 12 returns to Earth
1971 - D B Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200 000
1979 - Kings' Charley Simmer failed on 8th penalty shot against Islanders
2007 - Australians elect the centre-left-Australian Labor Party at a federal election; the outgoing prime minister, John Howard, becomes the first since 1929 to lose his own seat.
Famous birthdays On November 24 ..
1632 - Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
1700 - Benjamin Spinoza,
1713 - Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in Cal
1713 - Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist satirist (Tristram Shandy)
1784 - Zachary Taylor, (Whig) 12th Pres (Mar 5 1849-July 9 1850)
1864 - Henre de Toulouse-Lautrec, in France painter
1868 - Scott Joplin, American musician composer
1877 - Alben W. Barkley, (D) 35th U.S. vice-president (1949-53)
1888 - Dale Carnegie, author (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
1912 - Eric Severide,
1921 - John V. Lindsay, (R-NY-mayor)
1925 - William F. Buckley Jr., right-wing curmudgeon
1930 - Dante Lavelli, AAFC NFL end (Cleveland Browns)
1938 - Oscar Robertson (Big O), basketball player
The Beginner's American History
A People's History of the United States (P.S.)
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
The Intellectual Devotional: American History: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently about Our Nation's Past
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
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