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November 24

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In 1784, Zachary Taylor, the 12th President of the United States, was born in Orange Count, Virginia.

In 1859, British naturalist Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," a paper in which he explained his theory of evolution through the process of natural selection.

In 1963, in a scene captured on live network television, Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald as the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy was being escorted by police to an armored truck at the Dallas municipal building for transfer to the county jail.

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Producer-writer Garson Kanin  (1912)

Actor Howard Duff  (1917)

Columnist William F. Buckly  (1925)

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"There is always inequity in life.  Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country ... Life is unfair."
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President John F. Kennedy  (1917-1963)