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Today in History: November 24

1859 Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. The first printing of 1,250 copies sells out in a single day.

1863 In the Battle Above the Clouds, Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's forces take Lookout Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tennessee.

1864 Kit Carson and his 1st Cavalry, New Mexico Volunteers, attack a camp of Kiowa Indians in the First Battle of Adobe Walls.

1874 Joseph Glidden receives a patent for barbed wire.

1950 UN troops begin an assault into the rest of North Korea, hoping to end the Korean War by Christmas.

1963 Jack Ruby fatally shoots the accused assassin of President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, in the garage of the Dallas Police Department.

1979 The United States admits that thousands of troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange.

1995 Ireland votes 50.28% to 49.72% to end its 70-year-old ban on divorce.

2018 Taiwanese voters vote against referendums to legalise same-sex marriage

2020 COVID-19 surge in the US gathers further pace with death toll of 2,200 highest since May and new cases averaging 175,000 a day

2021 Sweden's first female Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson resigns after 12 hours in the job after her coalition government falls apart


Born on November 24

1888 Dale Carnegie, author of How to Win Friends and Influence People.

1946 Ted Bundy, serial killer; he confessed to 30 murders between 1974-78, but the total could be much higher.

1949 Linda Tripp, who secretly recorded Monica Lewinsky's confidential phone calls about Lewinsky's affair with then-President Bill Clinton.

JOTD

I was in a very busy Whole Foods and saw this beautiful young woman shopping.

I asked her, "I can't seem to find my wife, can I talk to you?"
"Sure, but how can that help?"
"Once she sees me talking to you, I'll bet you anything she'll appear out of fricking nowhere."