“What do Texas Rangers, Lee Harvey Oswald & D.B. Cooper share in common?” All three share an important newsworthy anniversary on November 24th, along with four others.
Curious to learn more about the Texas Rangers, Lee Harvey Oswald and D.B. Cooper? Read to find out about these and other interesting tales that happened on November 24th.
1835 – The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (now known as the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
1963 – In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters.
1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon.
1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40 percent complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
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