Today In History

Today is Saturday, Nov. 24, the 328th day of 2018. There are 37 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

› 1963: Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in a scene captured on live television.

ON THIS DATE

› 1859: British naturalist Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species,” which explained his theory of evolution by means of natural selection.

› 1941: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Edwards v. California, unanimously struck down a California law prohibiting people from bringing impoverished nonresidents into the state.

› 1944: During World War II, U.S. bombers based on Saipan attacked Tokyo in the first raid against the Japanese capital by land-based planes.

› 1971: A hijacker calling himself “Dan Cooper” (but who became popularly known as “D.B. Cooper”) parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 over the Pacific Northwest after receiving $200,000 in ransom; his fate remains unknown.

› 2000: The U.S. Supreme Court stepped into the bitter, overtime struggle for the White House, agreeing to consider George W. Bush’s appeal against the hand recounting of ballots in Florida.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Basketball Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson is

80. Country singer Johnny Carver is 78. Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue is 78. Rock drummer Pete Best is 77. Singer Lee Michaels is

73. Actor Dwight Schultz is 71. Actor Stanley Livingston is 68. Rock musician Clem Burke (Blondie; The Romantics) is 64. Record producer Terry Lewis is 62. Actor/ director Ruben Santiago-Hudson is 62. Actress Denise Crosby is 61. Actress Shae D’Lyn is

56. Rock musician John Squire (The Stone Roses) is 56. Rock musician Gary Stonadge (Big Audio) is

56. Actor Conleth Hill is

54. Actor-comedian Brad Sherwood is 54. Actor Garret Dillahunt is 54. Actor-comedian Scott Krinsky is 50. Rock musician Chad Taylor (Live) is 48. Actor-writer-director-producer Stephen Merchant is 44. Olympic bronze medal figure skater Chen Lu is 42. Actor Colin Hanks is 41. Actress Katherine Heigl is 40. Actress Sarah Hyland is

28.