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It happened on a… November 24

2019

Taylor Swift wins six awards at American Music Awards including Artist of the Decade.

1991

Freddie Mercury died of complications from aids at his home in London’s Holland park aged 45.

1963

Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald live on national television.

1954

Air Force One, 1st US Presidential airplane, christened.

1944

US bombers based on Saipan begin 1st attack on Tokyo.

Anti-conscription riots in Montreal and Quebec City, after Mackenzie King’s announcement that 16,000 conscripts would be sent to England.

1859

Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, published “On the Origin of Species.” It was the paper in which he explained his theory of evolution through the process of natural selection.

First train crosses the new Victoria Bridge to the south shore.

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