Moments in Time: Billy The Kid
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On Nov. 11, 1831, Nat Turner, an American slave and educated minister who believed that he'd been chosen by God to lead his people into freedom, was hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia, for leading a revolt with 75 followers through Southampton County, killing about 60 white people.
On Nov. 12, 1969, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh revealed the extent of the U.S. Army's charges against 1st Lt. William L. Calley at My Lai, Vietnam, in a cable picked up by more than 30 newspapers, saying that "The Army says he [Calley] deliberately murdered at least 109 Vietnamese civilians during a search-and-destroy mission in March 1968, in a Viet Cong stronghold known as 'Pinkville.'"
On Nov. 13, 1979, Philadelphia 76ers center Darryl Dawkins leaped over Kansas City Kings forward Bill Robinzine for a memorable slam dunk that shattered the fiberglass backboard. His equally memorable comment on the move, which was not his last and the sound of which spectators likened to a bomb going off: "It wasn't really a safe thing to do, but it was a Darryl Dawkins thing to do."
On Nov. 14, 1882, outlaw Frank “Buckskin” Leslie shot and killed Billy “The Kid” Claiborne, who had publicly challenged him, in Tombstone, Arizona.
On Nov. 15, 1984, Baby Fae, a month old infant who received the world's first baboon heart transplant, died at California's Loma Linda University 20 days after the operation. Three other people had received animal heart transplants, but none survived longer than a few days.
On Nov. 16, 2001, British author J.K. Rowling's most famous and beloved creation, the bespectacled boy wizard Harry Potter (played by Daniel Radcliffe in his first major role), made his silver-screen debut in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," which went on to become one of the highest-grossing movies in history.
On Nov. 17, 1903, the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party split into two factions: the majority Bolsheviks and minority Mensheviks. The Bolsheviks went on to become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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