Int’l Drum Month Day 328 of 2009 37 days left in this year

HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Mo‘olelo: Legend
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Stillum: Steal
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Be careful lest the result be disastrous to you.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Legend: A tale that has attained the dignity of age.” - Laurence Peter

NATIONAL NEWS ARCHIVES – Nov. 24, 1971
“D.B.” Cooper parachutes into legend. D. B. Cooper is the name given to a man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the United States on this day in 1971, received $200,000 in ransom, and parachuted from the plane along the Columbia River of Washington. He was never apprehended. The name he used to board the plane was Dan Cooper, but through a later press error, he became known as “D. B. Cooper.” In spite of hundreds of leads over the years since, no conclusive evidence has surfaced regarding Cooper’s true identity or whereabouts, and the bulk of the money has never been recovered.

EVENTS ON THIS DAY – November 24

• 1859: Charles Darwin publishes “On the Origin of Species”
• 1871: The National Rifle Association is organized (NYC)
• 1949: Britain nationalizes it’s steel & iron industry
• 1998: America Online confirms it intends to purchase Netscape Communications in a deal ultimately worth $10 billion
• 2000: The U.S. Supreme Court steps into the bitter, overtime struggle for the White House, agreeing to consider George W. Bush’s appeal against the hand recounting of ballots in Florida
• 2003 A jury in Virginia Beach, Va., sentenced John Allen Muhammad to death for the Washington-area sniper shootings.

BORN ON THIS DAY – November 24

• 1632: Benedict de “Baruch” Spinoza, rationalist philosopher
• 1713: Father Junipero Serra, California missions founder
• 1713: Laurence Sterne, novelist/satirist
• 1784: Zachary Taylor, (Whig) 12th President
• 1864: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter
• 1868: Scott Joplin, entertainer/composer
• 1888: Dale Carnegie, author
• 1917: Howard Duff, actor
• 1925: William F Buckley Jr, right-wing curmudgeon
• 1935: Ron Dellums, (Rep-D-Calif)
• 1942: Billy Connolly, comedian/actor
• 1946: Ted Bundy, serial murderer
• 1947: Lee Michaels, rock singer
• 1963: Lisa Howard, actress
• 1978: Katherine Heigl, actress

DIED ON THIS DAY – November 24

• 1572: John Knox Scottish preacher, dies
• 1959: Dr Lyman Bryson educator (UN Casebook), dies at 71
• 1962: James J Kilroy tank inspector (Kilroy was here), dies at 60
• 1963: Lee Harvey Oswald JFK’s assassinator shot dead by Jack Ruby
• 1974: Charles Quinlivan actor (Frank-Mr Garland), dies at 50
• 1980 George Raft NYC, actor, dies at 85
• 1991: Rock singer Freddie Mercury of Queen died at age 45 of pneumonia brought on by AIDS
• 1993: Albert Collins, American blues guitarist (b. 1932)
• 2003: Floquet de Neu, Ecuato Guinean albino gorilla (b. 1964)
• 2004: Arthur Hailey, British-born author (b. 1920)
• 2005: Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)