November 19, 1978:  The biggest mass suicide in history occurs as Rev. Jim Jones leads over 900 followers to their deaths at Jonestown, Guyana.

November 20, 1945:  The Nuremberg War Crime Trials begin.

November 22, 1963:  President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. 

November 24, 1859:  Charles Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection is published, theorizing that all living creatures descended from a common ancestor.

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