November 24
1642 - Abel Tasman discovered Van Diemen's land, later renamed Tasmania.
1859 - Charles Darwin published his "On the Origin of Species," which explained his theory of evolution by means of natural selection.
1865 - Mississippi became the first Southern state to enact laws which came to be known as "Black Codes" aimed at limiting the rights of newly freed Blacks; other states of the former Confederacy soon followed.
1871 - The National Rifle Association was incorporated.
1874 - Joseph Farwell Glidden patented barbed wire.
1941 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Edwards v. California, unanimously struck down a California law prohibiting people from bringing impoverished non-residents into the state.
1947 - A group of writers, producers and directors that became known as the "Hollywood Ten" was cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about alleged Communist influence in the movie industry.
1963 - Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in the garage of Dallas police headquarters, in a scene captured on live television.
1971 - Hijacker D.B. Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Airlines flight over the Pacific Northwest with $200,000 in ransom money; his fate remains unknown.
1974 - The bone fragments of a 3.2 million-year-old hominid were discovered by scientists in Ethiopia; the skeletal remains were nicknamed "Lucy".
1987 - The United States and the Soviet Union agreed on terms to scrap shorter- and medium-range missiles. (The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev the following month.)
1989 - Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu was unanimously re-elected Communist Party chief. (Within a month, he was overthrown in a popular uprising and executed along with his wife, Elena, on Christmas Day.)
1991 - Rock singer Freddie Mercury died in London at age 45 of AIDS-related pneumonia.
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.
2014 - It was announced that a grand jury in St. Louis County, Missouri, had decided against indicting Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown; the decision enraged protesters who set fire to buildings and cars and looted businesses in the area where Brown had been fatally shot.
2020 - Pennsylvania officials certified Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential vote in the state; the Trump campaign had gone to court trying to prevent the certification. The Nevada Supreme Court made Biden’s win in the state official. County election workers across Georgia began an official machine recount of the roughly 5 million votes cast in the presidential race in the state; certified results had shown Biden winning in Georgia by 12,670 votes.
2021 - Three men were convicted of murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was running through a Georgia subdivision in February 2020 when the white strangers chased him, trapped him on a quiet street and blasted him with a shotgun.
Birthdays
32 - Sarah Hyland (actress)
42 - Beth Phoenix (professional wrestler)
44 - Katherine Heigl (actress)
45 - Colin Hanks (actor)
49 - Danielle Nicolet (actress)
51 - Lola Glaudini (actress)
54 - Scott Krinsky (actor/comedian)
57 - Shirley Henderson (actress)
58 - Garret Dillahunt (actor)
58 - Brad Sherwood (actor/comedian)
65 - Denise Crosby (actress)
72 - Stanley Livingston (actor)
75 - Dwight Schultz (actor)
77 - Lee Michaels (singer)
80 - Billy Connolly (actor/comedian)
82 - Paul Tagliabue (former NFL commissioner)
82 - Johnny Carver (singer)
84 - Oscar Robertson (basketball player)
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Today in Sports History - November 24
1892 - Nebraska and Cockeye played to a 10-10 tie.
1898 - Cockeye defeated Nebraska 6-5.
1899 - South Dakota defeated Nebraska 6-5.
1904 - Nebraska defeated Illinois 16-10.
1906 - Chicago defeated Nebraska 38-5.
1910 - Nebraska defeated Haskell 119-0.
1921 - Nebraska defeated Colorado State 70-7 and finished the season at 7-1.
1923 - Syracuse defeated Nebraska 7-0.
1927 - Nebraska defeated New York University 27-18 and ended the season 6-2.
1928 - Army defeated Nebraska 13-3.
1932 - Nebraska defeated Missouri 21-6.
1934 - Nebraska defeated Missouri 13-6.
1938 - Nebraska defeated Kansas State 14-7 to end the year at 3-5-1.
1945 - Nebraska defeated Cockeye 13-6 to end the year at 4-5.
1951 - #12 Oklahoma defeated Nebraska 27-0.
1956 - Oklahoma defeated Nebraska 54-6 to end the year at 4-6.
1960 - Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia Warriors) set an NBA record with 55 rebounds against the Boston Celtics.
1962 - #10 Oklahoma defeated Nebraska 34-6.
1964 - Notre Dame quarterback John Huarte wins the Heisman Trophy.
1966 - Oklahoma defeated #4 Nebraska 10-9.
1970 - Stanford quarterback Jim Plunkett wins the Heisman Trophy.
1976 - The Atlanta Hawks end a 28-game road losing streak.
1979 - #8 Oklahoma defeated #3 Nebraska 17-14.
1991 - Monica Seals set a female tennis record by winning $2,457,758 in a year.
1995 - #1 Nebraska defeated Oklahoma 37-0.
1996 - Barry Sanders (Detroit Lions) set an NFL record when he recorded his eighth straight 1,000-yard season.
1996 - Rusty Wallace won the first NASCAR event to be held in Japan.
1996 - Clyde Drexler (Houston Rockets) became the 24th NBA player to record 20,000 career points.
2000 - #10 Nebraska defeated Colorado 34-32.
2006 - #19 Nebraska defeated Colorado 37-14.
2017 - Cockeye defeated Nebraska 56-14; NU ends the season at 4-8.
2017 - South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal increased the prison sentence of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius to 13 years and five months in the shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, more than doubling the original six-year sentence.
1642 - Abel Tasman discovered Van Diemen's land, later renamed Tasmania.
1859 - Charles Darwin published his "On the Origin of Species," which explained his theory of evolution by means of natural selection.
1865 - Mississippi became the first Southern state to enact laws which came to be known as "Black Codes" aimed at limiting the rights of newly freed Blacks; other states of the former Confederacy soon followed.
1871 - The National Rifle Association was incorporated.
1874 - Joseph Farwell Glidden patented barbed wire.
1941 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Edwards v. California, unanimously struck down a California law prohibiting people from bringing impoverished non-residents into the state.
1947 - A group of writers, producers and directors that became known as the "Hollywood Ten" was cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about alleged Communist influence in the movie industry.
1963 - Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in the garage of Dallas police headquarters, in a scene captured on live television.
1971 - Hijacker D.B. Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Airlines flight over the Pacific Northwest with $200,000 in ransom money; his fate remains unknown.
1974 - The bone fragments of a 3.2 million-year-old hominid were discovered by scientists in Ethiopia; the skeletal remains were nicknamed "Lucy".
1987 - The United States and the Soviet Union agreed on terms to scrap shorter- and medium-range missiles. (The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev the following month.)
1989 - Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu was unanimously re-elected Communist Party chief. (Within a month, he was overthrown in a popular uprising and executed along with his wife, Elena, on Christmas Day.)
1991 - Rock singer Freddie Mercury died in London at age 45 of AIDS-related pneumonia.
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.
2014 - It was announced that a grand jury in St. Louis County, Missouri, had decided against indicting Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown; the decision enraged protesters who set fire to buildings and cars and looted businesses in the area where Brown had been fatally shot.
2020 - Pennsylvania officials certified Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential vote in the state; the Trump campaign had gone to court trying to prevent the certification. The Nevada Supreme Court made Biden’s win in the state official. County election workers across Georgia began an official machine recount of the roughly 5 million votes cast in the presidential race in the state; certified results had shown Biden winning in Georgia by 12,670 votes.
2021 - Three men were convicted of murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was running through a Georgia subdivision in February 2020 when the white strangers chased him, trapped him on a quiet street and blasted him with a shotgun.
Birthdays
32 - Sarah Hyland (actress)
42 - Beth Phoenix (professional wrestler)
44 - Katherine Heigl (actress)
45 - Colin Hanks (actor)
49 - Danielle Nicolet (actress)
51 - Lola Glaudini (actress)
54 - Scott Krinsky (actor/comedian)
57 - Shirley Henderson (actress)
58 - Garret Dillahunt (actor)
58 - Brad Sherwood (actor/comedian)
65 - Denise Crosby (actress)
72 - Stanley Livingston (actor)
75 - Dwight Schultz (actor)
77 - Lee Michaels (singer)
80 - Billy Connolly (actor/comedian)
82 - Paul Tagliabue (former NFL commissioner)
82 - Johnny Carver (singer)
84 - Oscar Robertson (basketball player)
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Today in Sports History - November 24
1892 - Nebraska and Cockeye played to a 10-10 tie.
1898 - Cockeye defeated Nebraska 6-5.
1899 - South Dakota defeated Nebraska 6-5.
1904 - Nebraska defeated Illinois 16-10.
1906 - Chicago defeated Nebraska 38-5.
1910 - Nebraska defeated Haskell 119-0.
1921 - Nebraska defeated Colorado State 70-7 and finished the season at 7-1.
1923 - Syracuse defeated Nebraska 7-0.
1927 - Nebraska defeated New York University 27-18 and ended the season 6-2.
1928 - Army defeated Nebraska 13-3.
1932 - Nebraska defeated Missouri 21-6.
1934 - Nebraska defeated Missouri 13-6.
1938 - Nebraska defeated Kansas State 14-7 to end the year at 3-5-1.
1945 - Nebraska defeated Cockeye 13-6 to end the year at 4-5.
1951 - #12 Oklahoma defeated Nebraska 27-0.
1956 - Oklahoma defeated Nebraska 54-6 to end the year at 4-6.
1960 - Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia Warriors) set an NBA record with 55 rebounds against the Boston Celtics.
1962 - #10 Oklahoma defeated Nebraska 34-6.
1964 - Notre Dame quarterback John Huarte wins the Heisman Trophy.
1966 - Oklahoma defeated #4 Nebraska 10-9.
1970 - Stanford quarterback Jim Plunkett wins the Heisman Trophy.
1976 - The Atlanta Hawks end a 28-game road losing streak.
1979 - #8 Oklahoma defeated #3 Nebraska 17-14.
1991 - Monica Seals set a female tennis record by winning $2,457,758 in a year.
1995 - #1 Nebraska defeated Oklahoma 37-0.
1996 - Barry Sanders (Detroit Lions) set an NFL record when he recorded his eighth straight 1,000-yard season.
1996 - Rusty Wallace won the first NASCAR event to be held in Japan.
1996 - Clyde Drexler (Houston Rockets) became the 24th NBA player to record 20,000 career points.
2000 - #10 Nebraska defeated Colorado 34-32.
2006 - #19 Nebraska defeated Colorado 37-14.
2017 - Cockeye defeated Nebraska 56-14; NU ends the season at 4-8.
2017 - South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal increased the prison sentence of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius to 13 years and five months in the shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, more than doubling the original six-year sentence.
