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Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 24 November.

1. Destructive eruption of Vesuvius
2. SC passes Ordinance of Nullification
3. Patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire
4. 1st US Presial airplane christened
5. Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record)
6. 1st live murder on TV - Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
7. Apollo 12 returns to Earth
8. D B Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200 000
9. Kings' Charley Simmer failed on 8th penalty shot against Islanders

These famous people were born on 24 November.

1. 1632 - Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
2. 1700 - Benjamin Spinoza
3. 1713 - Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in Cal
4. 1713 - Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist, satirist (Tristram Shandy)
5. 1784 - Zachary Taylor, (Whig), 12th Pres (Mar 5 1849-July 9 1850)
6. 1864 - Henre de Toulouse-Lautrec, in France, painter
7. 1868 - Scott Joplin, American musician, composer
8. 1877 - Alben W. Barkley, (D), 35th U.S. vice-president (1949-53)
9. 1888 - Dale Carnegie, author (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
10. 1912 - Eric Severide
11. 1921 - John V. Lindsay, (R-NY-mayor)
12. 1925 - William F. Buckley Jr., right-wing curmudgeon
13. 1930 - Dante Lavelli, AAFC, NFL end (Cleveland Browns)
14. 1938 - Oscar Robertson (Big O), basketball player