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||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. | ||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. | ||
||John Robert Stallings Jr. (d. November 24, 2008) was a mathematician known for his seminal contributions to geometric group theory and 3-manifold topology. Pic. | |||
||2012 – Nicholas Turro, American chemist and academic (b. 1938) | ||2012 – Nicholas Turro, American chemist and academic (b. 1938) | ||
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1632: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza born. He will lay the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.
1639: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus.
1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1962: First broadcast of That Was the Week That Was.
1963: In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged 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 armored car to take him to the nearby county jail.