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November 24

1835. The Texas Provisional Government authorizes the formation of a mounted police force called the Texas Rangers.

1859. Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.

1932. The FBI crime lab officially opens.

1963. Only days after he shot President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald is shot and killed by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters. The shooting was coincidentally broadcast live on national television.

1971. "Dan Cooper", who had boarded and hijacked a plane two days earlier, parachutes out of a plane in a severe thunderstorm over Washington state with his $200,000 in ransom money. He is never caught, though the FBI believes he did not survive the jump. To this day, it remains the only unsolved airplane hijacking in US history, as no one has been able to determine who Dan Cooper (the name he used in getting his tickets) actually was.

Various clues have led to dead ends through the years, including an eight year old boy finding over $5,000 in decaying $20 bills which were confirmed as being part of the original ransom money along the banks of the Columbia River, near the jump site.

In 2007 the FBI tried to jump-start interest in the case by announcing that it had obtained partial DNA identification from the tie he had left on the plane, and by releasing for the first time composite sketches. While reiterating that it thought he was dead, the FBI stated that it was still interested in determining his identity.

1974. "Lucy", a 3.2 million year old Australopithecus skeleton, is discovered in Ethiopia. She is named after the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, which was being played repeatedly and loudly on a tape recorder in the archeologists' camp.