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Gravdigr · 11-24-2016, 12:58 PM

November 24

Today is Thanksgiving Day in the U.S.

There are 37 days remaining in 2016.

There are 30 days until Christmas. So, get busy.

Events

1248 – In the middle of the night a mass on the north side of Mont Granier suddenly collapsed, in one of the largest historical rockslope failures known in Europe, creating the sheer 700 m north face of the mountain.

1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.

1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).

1835 – The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).

1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.

1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.

1877 – Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.

1917 – In Milwaukee, Wisconsin nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.

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 [presumed] assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby, a nightclub operator, in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. Oswald was being led by two detectives to an armoured car to take him to the nearby county jail.

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.

1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.

1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% 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.

1976 – The Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.

2015 – A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by Turkish Air Force F-16s over the Syria–Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.

Births

1690 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel

; 1713 – Junípero Serra; 1784 – Zachary Taylor (12th POTUS); 1806 – William Webb Ellis (created rugby); 1864 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

; 1867 – Scott Joplin♪ ♫; 1877 – Alben W. Barkley (35th VPOTUS); 1888 – Dale Carnegie (author How to Win Friends and Influence People); 1897 – Lucky Luciano (mob boss); 1913 – Howard Duff; 1913 – Geraldine Fitzgerald; 1925 – William F. Buckley, Jr.; 1938 – Charles Starkweather; 1940 – Paul Tagliabue; 1941 – Pete Best

; 1941 – Donald "Duck" Dunn

(Booker T. & the M.G.'s); 1942 – Billy Connolly

; 1942 – Marlin Fitzwater; 1945 – Lee Michaels♪ ♫; 1946 – Ted Bundy; 1947 – Dwight Schultz ('Howlin' Mad Murdock' on The A-Team); 1950 – Bob Burns

(Lynyrd Skynyrd); 1956 – Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Castle); 1957 – Denise Crosby ('Tasha Yar' on Star Trek: TNG); 1962 – John Squire

(The Stone Roses); 1964 – Brad Sherwood (Whose Line Is It Anyway? (American and British)); 1969 – Rob Nicholson

(Rob Zombie); 1977 – Colin Hanks (Life In Pieces, Tom Hanks' son); 1978 – Katherine Heigl

Deaths

1916 – Hiram Maxim (invented the Maxim machine gun); 1957 – Diego Rivera

; 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald (presumed assassin of JFK); 1980 – George Raft; 1982 – Barack Obama, Sr. (if only he'd worn a condom

); 1991 – Freddie Mercury♪ ♫(Queen); 1991 – Eric Carr

(KISS); 1993 – Albert Collins

; 2005 – Pat Morita ("Wax on, wax off."); 2012 – Héctor 'Macho' Camacho

11-24-2016, 12:58 PM	#421
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	November 24 Today is Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. There are 37 days remaining in 2016. There are *30 days* until Christmas. So, get busy. Events 1248 – In the middle of the night a mass on the north side of Mont Granier suddenly collapsed, in one of the largest historical rockslope failures known in Europe, creating the sheer 700 m north face of the mountain. 1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité. 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania). 1835 – The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety). 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species. 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg. 1877 – Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published. 1917 – In Milwaukee, Wisconsin nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001. 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 [presumed] assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby, a nightclub operator, in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. Oswald was being led by two detectives to an armoured car to take him to the nearby county jail. 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. 1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months. 1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% 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. 1976 – The Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people. 2015 – A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by Turkish Air Force F-16s over the Syria–Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort. Births 1690 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel; 1713 – Junípero Serra; 1784 – Zachary Taylor (12th POTUS); 1806 – William Webb Ellis (created rugby); 1864 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; 1867 – Scott Joplin♪ ♫; 1877 – Alben W. Barkley (35th VPOTUS); 1888 – Dale Carnegie (author How to Win Friends and Influence People); 1897 – Lucky Luciano (mob boss); 1913 – Howard Duff; 1913 – Geraldine Fitzgerald; 1925 – William F. Buckley, Jr.; 1938 – Charles Starkweather; 1940 – Paul Tagliabue; 1941 – Pete Best; 1941 – Donald "Duck" Dunn(Booker T. & the M.G.'s); 1942 – Billy Connolly; 1942 – Marlin Fitzwater; 1945 – Lee Michaels♪ ♫; 1946 – Ted Bundy; 1947 – Dwight Schultz ('Howlin' Mad Murdock' on The A-Team); 1950 – Bob Burns(Lynyrd Skynyrd); 1956 – Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Castle); 1957 – Denise Crosby ('Tasha Yar' on Star Trek: TNG); 1962 – John Squire(The Stone Roses); 1964 – Brad Sherwood (Whose Line Is It Anyway? (American and British)); 1969 – Rob Nicholson(Rob Zombie); 1977 – Colin Hanks (Life In Pieces, Tom Hanks' son); 1978 – Katherine Heigl Deaths 1916 – Hiram Maxim (invented the Maxim machine gun); 1957 – Diego Rivera; 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald (presumed assassin of JFK); 1980 – George Raft; 1982 – Barack Obama, Sr. (if only he'd worn a condom); 1991 – Freddie Mercury♪ ♫(Queen); 1991 – Eric Carr(KISS); 1993 – Albert Collins; 2005 – Pat Morita ("Wax on, wax off."); 2012 – Héctor 'Macho' Camacho __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.