VOICE-OVER SCRIPT:

November 24th, 1963:

In Dallas, a scene caught on live TV that shocks America, just days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

NATS

Nightclub owner Jack Ruby shoots -- and fatally wounds -- Lee Harvey Oswald, Kennedy's accused assassin -- in the Dallas County Jail.

1859:

British naturalist Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species," explaining his theory of evolution.

1971:The hijacker known as D.B. Cooper parachutes from a Northwest Airlines 727 over Washington State with 200-thousand dollars in ransom money. His fate remains unknown to this day.

And, 1991:

NATS

In London, rock singer Freddie Mercury - front man of the group Queen - dies of AIDS-related pneumonia. He was 45.

Today in History, November 24th --- ___ ___, The Associated Press.