Daily Calendar for Wednesday, November 24, 2027
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Wednesday, November 24, 2027
Born
- Zachary Taylor (12th U.S. president) –
- Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (novelist) –
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (artist) –
- Scott Joplin (pianist, King of Ragtime) –
- Cathleen Nesbitt (actress) –
- Garson Kanin (playwright) –
- Steve Yeager (baseball player) –
- Brad Sherwood (comedian) –
- Colin Hanks (actor) –
- Katherine Heigl (actress) –
Died
- Lee Harvey Oswald (suspected assassin of President John F. Kennedy) –
- Freddie Mercury (musician) –
- John Rawls (leading figure in political philosophy and legal theory) –
- Warren Spahn (American baseball player) –
- Pat Morita (actor) –
Events
- The transit of Venus was first observed –
- Justus Falckner became the first Lutheran pastor ordained in America (Philadelphia) –
- Charles Darwin’s controversial Origin of Species published –
- First national Thanksgiving celebration –
- Joseph Glidden granted patent for barbed wire fencing –
- Cape Breton Railway opened, Nova Scotia –
- Ruth Nichols became the first woman to fly a transcontinental flight –
- Lee Harvey Oswald, accused by Dallas police of assassinating President Kennedy, was shot and killed by Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas municipal building while in police custody –
- 239-lb. yellowfin tuna caught off Catalina Island, California –
- 14.04-pound saugeye caught, Antrim Lake, Ohio –
- Angler Brielle Bennett hauled in a 16-lb. black grouper in Key West, Florida, setting a junior class record. –
Weather
- In what became known as the “Battle Above the Clouds,” the Union army, aided by clouds obscuring the battlefield, was victorious at Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga –