Almanac of Absurdities 11/24

Charles Darwin publishes “On the Origin of the Species” on this date in 1859. In 1963 Dazed and Grieving Americans watch Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald to death live on TV. In 1971, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachutes out of a Northwest Orient Airliner with $200K in ransom money. Some of the money was found in the woods, but he never was. Forry Ackerman’s Birthday, if you’re hip to that.