NOVEMBER 24
1963:On live television, nightclub owner Jack Ruby shoots and kills Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in the basement of the Dallas police headquarters. Ruby is convicted of Oswald's murder and sentenced to death, but a Texas appeals court grants him a new trial. He dies of lung cancer in January 1967 before the new trial is held.
1859: Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is published in England, explaining the British naturalist's theory of evolution through natural selection. The book, based on evidence collected during Darwin's five-year expedition aboard the HMS Beagle, becomes an instant bestseller.
1991: Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury, 45, dies one day after announcing he was suffering from AIDS. Five months later, 72,000 people gather in London's Wembley Stadium for an AIDS awareness concert in tribute to Mercury.
1859: Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is published in England, explaining the British naturalist's theory of evolution through natural selection. The book, based on evidence collected during Darwin's five-year expedition aboard the HMS Beagle, becomes an instant bestseller.
1991: Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury, 45, dies one day after announcing he was suffering from AIDS. Five months later, 72,000 people gather in London's Wembley Stadium for an AIDS awareness concert in tribute to Mercury.
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