Today in History: November 24, D.B. Cooper disappears
In the modern day is Monday Nov the th day of There are days left in the year In current times in history On Nov a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper but who became popularly known as D B Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines over the Pacific Northwest after receiving in ransom his fate remains unknown Also on this date In British naturalist Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species which explained his theory of evolution by means of natural selection Related Articles In the present day in History November Liberia elects its first woman president In the modern day in History November Genocide conviction in Srebenica massacre Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia former Trump loyalist says she is resigning from Congress Flu activity is low but experts worry about a new strain and vaccination rates Kashoggi s widow and Democrats demand release of a call transcript with Trump and Saudi crown prince In Mississippi became the first Southern state to enact laws that came to be known as Black Codes aimed at limiting the rights of newly freed Blacks other states of the former Confederacy soon followed In a group of writers producers and directors who would become known as the Hollywood Ten was cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about alleged communist influence in the movie industry In Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald the accused assassin of President John F Kennedy in a scene captured on live television In the bone fragments of a million-year-old hominid were discovered by scientists in Ethiopia the skeletal remains were nicknamed Lucy In Queen singer Freddie Mercury died in London at age of AIDS-related pneumonia In fire raced through a garment factory in Bangladesh that supplied major retailers in the West killing people an official revealed numerous of the casualties were trapped because the eight-story building lacked crisis exits In it was informed that a grand jury in St Louis County Missouri had decided against indicting Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown the decision enraged protesters who set fire to buildings and cars and looted businesses in the area where Brown had been fatally shot In a terrorist attack on a mosque in Egypt s Sinai Peninsula killed at least people The attack was ascribed by personnel to a local Islamic State affiliate In three white men were convicted of murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery the Black man who was running through a Georgia subdivision in February when they chased and shot him In Derek Chauvin the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering Black man George Floyd was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured at a federal prison in Arizona He was subsequently transferred to another prison In contemporary times s Birthdays Basketball Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson is Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue TAG -lee-uh-boo is Rock drummer Pete Best is Actor-comedian Billy Connolly is Basketball Hall of Famer and former Detroit mayor Dave Bing is Basketball Hall of Fame coach Rudy Tomjanovich is Filmmaker Emir Kusturica is Actor Conleth Hill is Actor Danielle Nicolet is Author Arundhati Roy is Actor Colin Hanks is Actor Katherine Heigl HY -guhl is Actor Sarah Hyland is
