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| Admin | Nov 24 2008, 06:04 PM Post #1 |
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1784 Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States, was born in Orange County, Va. 1859 British naturalist Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," which explained his theory of evolution. 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. 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. |
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