SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2007

Today is Saturday, November 24, the 328th day of 2007. There are 37 days left in the year.

166 B.C. _ The origin of Era of Maccabees

496 _ Anastasius II begins his reign as Catholic pope

1832 _ South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification

1859 _ Charles Darwin publishes ``On the Origin of Species"

1863 _ Civil War battle for Lookout Mountain begins in Tennessee

1871 _ The National Rifle Association organized (NYC)

1944 _ U.S. bombers based on Saipan first attack Tokyo

1947 _ John Steinbeck's novel ``The Pearl" published

1954 _ The first U.S. presidential airplane christened

1969 _ Apollo 12 returns to Earth

1983 _ PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians & Lebanese

1989 _ The Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia

1992 _ Chinese air crash kills 141