历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-11-24（在线收听） |
November 24th, 1963, in Dallas, a scene caught on live TV that shocks America just days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. “There is Lee Harvey Oswald. He’s been shot. He’s been shot! Lee Oswald has been shot! There’s a man with a gun. No question about that Oswald has been shot.” Nightclub owner Jack Ruby shoots and fatally wounds Lee Harvey Oswald. Kennedy’s accused assassin in the Dallas county jail. 1859, British naturalist Charles Darwin publishes on “The Origin of Species”, explaining his theory of evolution.
1971, the hijacker, known as D.B. Cooper, parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 over Washington State with 200,000 dollars in ransom money. His fate remains unknown to this day.
And 1991, “We’re the champions, my friends…” In London, rock singer Freddie Mercury, front man of the group Queen, dies of AIDS-related pneumonia. He was 45.
Today in History, November 24th. Tim Maguire, the Associated Press. |
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