Shimla, Nov. 24 Keekli Bureau
2001
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey ratified changes to the country’s legal code that made women equal to men before the law and no longer subject to their husbands.
1998
Queen Elizabeth II, speaking at the annual ceremonies opening the British Parliament, announced that the right of hereditary peers to vote in the House of Lords would end, though compromise legislation later allowed 92 hereditary peers to remain in the Lords.
1971
A man later known as D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane shortly after departing from Portland, Oregon, and later parachuted out of the aircraft with the ransom money; despite an extensive manhunt, he was never identified or caught.
1963
Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
1947
The Hollywood Ten, a group of motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in October 1947, were found in contempt of Congress.
1877
Shortly before her death, Anna Sewell published her only novel,Black Beauty, the first major animal story in children’s literature.
1874
American inventor Joseph Farwell Glidden patented the first commercially successful barbed wire.
1859
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published.
1832
A special state convention in South Carolina adopted the Ordinance of Nullification, which declared two federal tariffs null and void within the state; it sparked the nullification crisis, which ended in favour of the federal government.
1700
Louis XIV of France proclaimed his grandson Philip to be king of Spain, beginning the War of the Spanish Succession.
1531
The second Peace of Kappel brought an end to the Kappel Wars during the Swiss Reformation.
