Black Friday [day after Thanksgiving, first advertised shopping day of Christmas season]
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| Black Friday at Apple store, NYC, 2011 |
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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1859 Charles Darwin publishes On Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. The first printing of 1,250 copies sells out in a single day.
1871 National Rifle Association organized in New York City
1874 Joseph F Glidden receives a patent for barbed wire
1963 Jack Ruby fatally shoots Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John Kennedy, in the garage of the Dallas Police Department
2000 The US Supreme Court stepped into the bitter, overtime struggle for the White House, agreeing to consider George W. Bush’s appeal whether the extended Florida ballot counting violates federal law
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