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24 November 1963 | | Jack Ruby assassinates Lee Harvey Oswald - the supposed killer of President John F. Kennedy who had died two days earlier. Robert Jackson (Dallas Times-Herald) photographs the exact moment of the shooting and is awarded the 1964 Pulitzer Prize. | G.G. Granger (1903, 24 November - 1946, 17 June) was born - US, MI, Sunfield. Albert Augustus Isaacs (1826, 24 January - 1903, 15 November) was born - Jamaica, Berry Hill (A coffee plantation). In the 1850s he travelled to the Holy Land. His book A Pictorial Tour in the Holy Land (1863) included illustrations based on his photographs. Mike Mandel (1950, 24 November - ) was born - US, CA, Los Angeles. American contemporary photographeer who in the 1970s self-published several key works including "Seven Never Before Published Portraits of Edward Weston" (1974) and "Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards" (1975). T.K. Shindo (1890, 24 November - 1974) was born - Japan. Arthur Tress (1940, 24 November - ) was born - US, NY, Brooklyn. American experimental photographer who uses his anthropological background to explore dream-like and fantasy aspects of the human psyche. He has worked in both black and white and color. George Allen (1891, 12 January - 1940, 24 November) died. Took aerial photographs of Southern England between 1933 and 1939 mostly of archaeological sites not not entirely. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has a collection of around 2000 of his aerial photographs. Alphonse Bernoud (1820, 4 February - 1889, 24 November) died - France, Lyon. John Benjamin Dancer (1812, 8 October - 1887, 24 November) died. Optician, photographer and inventor. He took Daguerreotypes with the aid of microscope and one was of the founders of photographic microscopy.
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, University of Cambridge has a "List of Microscopic More... Alice Seeley Harris (1870, 24 May - 1970, 24 November) died - England, Guildford. Juan Laurent (1816, 23 July - 1886, 24 November) died. Born in France in 1816 as Jean Laurant and in 1843 he became a resident of Madrid in Spain taking the name Juan. Until the end of 1855 he ran a business producing cardboard boxes and paper. In 1856 he rented premises at "Carrera de San Jerónimo," 39More... László Moholy-Nagy (1895, 20 July - 1946, 24 November) died - US, IL, Chicago. Multi-talented artist and theoretician. Karl Pietzner (1853, 9 April - 1927, 24 November) died. Jack Welpott (1923, 27 April - 2007, 24 November) died - US, CA, Greenbrae. American photographer. | January February March April May June July August September October November December
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