Today is Sunday, Nov. 24, the 328th day of 2005. There are 37 days left in the year. This is Thanksgiving Day. Today in Nigerian History: In 1944, Prof. Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, scholar and diplomat, was born in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigerian. He was Minister for External Affairs between 1984 and 1985.
On Nov. 24, 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy, in a scene captured on live television.
In 1784, Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States, was born in Orange County, Va.
In 1859, British naturalist Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," which explained his theory of evolution.
In 1969, Apollo 12 splashed down safely in the Pacific.
Five years ago: 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.
One year ago: Ukraine's election officials declared that Kremlin-backed Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych had won Ukraine's bitterly disputed presidential runoff balloting; thousands of opposition supporters demonstrated in Kiev. Popular author Arthur Hailey died on New Providence island, Bahamas, at age 84.
Thought for Today: "Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold." — Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, American writer (1900-1948).
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