On This Day In History
22 November 1963. 12:30 PM. Jackie Kennedy jumps out of her seat, just seconds after the fatal shot hit her husband. She later said she was not trying to escape, but was trying to pick up fragments of JFK’s brain. pic.twitter.com/Dmb7li9jRa
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 22, 2022
22 November 1963. 2:38 PM. Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th US President on Air Force One. Jackie, deeply traumatised and still wearing her blood-stained pink suit, acted as the witness to the impromptu ceremony. Afterwards she drank a tumbler of whisky. pic.twitter.com/qQxZJKFISv
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 22, 2022
5 conspiracy theories on the JFK Assassination pic.twitter.com/cITYtFhrvx
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 22, 2022
22 November 1963. 1.38 PM. Newsreader Walter Cronkite, holding back tears, announced the death of JFK live on CBS News to the American people. pic.twitter.com/SGQyGLTPty
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 22, 2022
November 23rd
1248 Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile after the city capitulates
1644 "Areopagitica", a pamphlet by John Milton decrying censorship, is published
1869 The clipper Cutty Sark is launched In Dumbarton, Scotland, one of the last clippers ever built and the only one still surviving
2018 US Federal Climate report finds climate change will reduce economy by 10% by 2100 with $141 billion cost from heat-related deaths, $118 billion from sea level rise
2019 Sumatran rhino officially declared extinct in Malaysia after last known specimen, 25-year-old Iman, dies of cancer in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
Did You Know?
Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
Today in History in 1863
Would You Believe?
Chinese steward Poon Lim begins 133 days adrift after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat and he is the sole survivor
Today in History in 1942
This day 153 years ago – 23 November 1867 – the 'Manchester Martyrs' were hanged in Salford, having been charged with the shooting dead of Sgt Charles Brett two months earlier.
They were Irish Republican Brotherhood members William Allen, Michael Larkin and Michael O'Brien. pic.twitter.com/3Ifss0iLFd
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) November 23, 2020
#OTD in 1733, enslaved woman Breffu led an uprising against plantation owners on St John island in the West Indies, killing them and their families. The rebels succeeded until summer 1734. Rather than be recaptured, Breffu and 23 others committed suicide. https://t.co/n3jsMGKtNk pic.twitter.com/O39bODwMfF
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) November 23, 2022
Tamir had been playing in a park in Cleveland, OH, when a police car approached; within seconds and without warning, the officer shot Tamir in the stomach and left him to bleed out without administering aid. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history.
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) November 23, 2022
23 November 1499. Perkin Warbeck (aged 24 or 25), was hanged in London. For 6 years he masqueraded as Richard, Duke of York, claiming to be the rightful king of England. He was executed, not for his imitation of a Yorkist prince, but because of a plot to overthrow Henry VII. pic.twitter.com/5ZxI3Z7rme
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 23, 2022
23 November 1644. John Milton published Areopagitica, a pamphlet opposing censorship. It’s regarded as one of the most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech. pic.twitter.com/4o39QyaaVK
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 23, 2022
23 November 1889. The first jukebox was installed at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco, California, USA. It became an overnight sensation, and its popularity spread around the world. That first jukebox was constructed by the Pacific Phonograph Company. pic.twitter.com/W3hOAcElkU
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 23, 2022
23 November 1910. Johan Ander became the last person executed in Sweden. He was beheaded by guillotine, after being sentenced to death for the murder of a 24-year-old cashier during a robbery in a shop in Stockholm. The execution took place in a Stockholm prison. pic.twitter.com/ugyCmwmj2t
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 23, 2022
23 November 1910. American born, Dr. Hawley Crippen, was hanged at Pentonville Prison in London for murdering his wife Cora by poisoning. pic.twitter.com/6Yp7icMgzL
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 23, 2022
23 November 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the murder of President John F.Kennedy and police officer J.D.Tippit. Captain J.W. Fritz, of the Dallas Homicide Department, said the evidence against him was “overwhelming”. pic.twitter.com/Yyyn6FVJ7o
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 23, 2022
Quote from Charlie Charles IV on November 23, 2022, 6:20 pm
This day 153 years ago – 23 November 1867 – the 'Manchester Martyrs' were hanged in Salford, having been charged with the shooting dead of Sgt Charles Brett two months earlier.
They were Irish Republican Brotherhood members William Allen, Michael Larkin and Michael O'Brien. pic.twitter.com/3Ifss0iLFd
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) November 23, 2020
"God Save Ireland !" Said the heroes. Many years on and we're still in need of saving - in so many ways.
November 24th
380 Theodosius I makes his adventus, or first formal entry, into Constantinople
1639 1st observation of Transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree - helped establish size of the Solar System
1642 Dutch explorer Abel Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
1859 English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" radically changing the view of evolution and laying the foundation for evolutionary biology
1950 UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas
1954 France sends 20,000 soldiers to Algeria
1974 Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression
Did You Know?
American inventor Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire
Today in History in 1874
Would You Believe?
American "Dan Cooper" hijacks plane, extorts $200,000 ransom before jumping out of plane over Washington State, never seen again
Today in History in 1971
This day 25 years ago – 24 November 1995 – Irish voters approved by referendum an amendment to the constitution which lifted a ban on divorce.
It was the narrowest voting margin in the history the state, with 50.28% opting for 'Yes.'
The difference was fewer than 9,200 votes. pic.twitter.com/9tqvx17ytp
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) November 24, 2020
#OTD in 1621, who cooked that first #Thanksgiving dinner? Four Pilgrim women, including Susanna White. Exactly a year earlier, White had given birth on the Mayflower as it lay off Massachusets. Her son was the first child born to the colonists in America. https://t.co/JlAwBeDHYF pic.twitter.com/PlZSpH6bwq
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) November 24, 2022
On this day in 1958, SCOTUS upheld Alabama's School Placement Law, which was designed to maintain segregation and allowed school boards to assign students to schools at their own discretion. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/BzOtqN2vCn
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) November 24, 2022