On This Day:
Sunday November 24, 2013 This is the 328th day of the year, with 37 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: volleyball Volleyball is a sport played by teams of six players each, who aim to score points by propelling a ball over a net into the opponents' court in such a way that the opponents cannot return it. Players can hit the ball with their hands or any part of their body above the waist. A team is allowed three hits to move the ball over the net. The game, originally called "mintonette," was invented in 1895 at the YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts by William G. Morgan. William Morgan studied at Springfield College and knew James Naismith, who invented basketball in 1891. Influenced and inspired by Naismith, Morgan blended aspects of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball to devise a sport that could be played by older members of the YMCA. The set and spike was first demonstrated in 1916. The first beach volleyball game was played in 1930.
Holidays Feast day of Saints Flora and Mary, St. Chrysogonus, and St. Colman of Cloyne.
Democratic Republic of Congo: National Day.
Events 1642 - Dutch navigator Abel Tasman discovered Van Diemen's Land which he named after his captain; later it was renamed Tasmania.
1859 - British naturalist Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" which explained his groundbreaking theory of evolution.
1874 - Joseph Glidden received a patent for barbed wire.
1947 - A group of writers, producers, and directors that became known as the "Hollywood Ten" was cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about alleged Communist influence in the movie industry.
1963 - Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in the Dallas police station in a scene captured on live television. (In 1979, the House Assassination's Committee concludes that Kennedy likely was killed as part of a larger conspiracy that may have included members of organized crime.)
1969 - Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the Moon, successfully returned to Earth.
1971 - Hijacker D.B. Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 over Washington state with $200,000 in ransom. He was never found.
1977 - Greece announced the discovery of the tomb of King Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
1979 - The United States government admitted that thousands of troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange.
1987 - The United States and the Soviet Union agreed to scrap shorter- and medium-range missiles.
1993 - The U.S. Congress passed the Brady handgun-control bill.
1998 - America Online announced that it would buy Netscape Communications for $10 billion.
2001 - Taliban soldiers surrendered their last stronghold in northern Afghanistan, the city of Kunduz.
2003 - A jury in Virginia Beach, Virginia, sentenced John Allen Muhammad to death for the series of Washington-area sniper shootings.
Births 1632 - Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher.
1784 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States of America (1849-50).
1864 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter.
1868 - Scott Joplin, American ragtime music composer and pianist.
1888 - Dale Carnegie, American lecturer and author.
1925 - William F. Buckley, conservative commentator who founded National Review in 1955.
1955 - Ian "Beefy" Botham, English cricketer.
Deaths 1922 - Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist and novelist, executed.
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
1980 - George Raft, American film actor.
1991 - Freddie Mercury (Frederick Bulsara), flamboyant English rock singer and member of the band Queen.
1998 - Flip Wilson, American comedian.
2005 - Pat Morita, Japanese-American actor, probably best known for playing the roles of Arnold on the TV show "Happy Days," and Mr. Miyagi in the movie "The Karate Kid."
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