Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 24
This is a list of selected November 24 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Before doing so, please review the selected anniversaries guidelines. If your suggestion is potentially controversial or relates to a day currently or soon to appear on the Main Page, post it on the talk page instead.
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Charles Darwin in 1854
Charles Darwin
Mobutu
Leszek I the White
A 1972 FBI composite drawing of D. B. Cooper
Skeleton of "Lucy" as displayed in Mexico
Ruby about to shoot Oswald
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Feast day of Vietnamese Martyrs (Roman Catholicism) | unreferenced section |
| ; Teachers' Day in Turkey | refimprove |
| 1190 – Conrad of Montferrat became de jure uxoris King of Jerusalem after marrying Queen Isabella I. | needs more footnotes |
| 1227 – High Duke of Poland Leszek the White was assassinated during a diet of the Piast dukes. | needs more footnotes |
| 1642 – A Dutch expedition led by Abel Tasman reached what is now Tasmania, Australia. | refimprove section |
| 1877 – Anna Sewell's influential animal welfare novel Black Beauty, one of the best-selling books of all time, was first published. | unreferenced section |
| 1906 – A local newspaper accused members of two teams of conspiring to deliberately lose games, the first major scandal in American football. | Second game was on this date, not the newspaper article, which is of unknown date at present |
| 1962 – The influential television programme That Was the Week That Was, a significant element of the British satire boom, was first broadcast. | refimprove section |
| 1965 – Mobutu seized power from Congo President Joseph Kasa-Vubu after a bloodless coup d'état. | unreferenced sections, article says Nov 25, but infobox says 24 |
| 1966 – TABSO Flight 101 crashed near Bratislava, killing all 82 on board, making it Slovakia's worst air disaster. | refimprove |
| 1974 – A group of paleoanthropologists discovered a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia, nicknaming it "Lucy". | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1542 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: England captured about 1,200 Scottish prisoners with its victory in the Battle of Solway Moss.
- 1863 – American Civil War: As part of the Chattanooga Campaign in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces captured Lookout Mountain, helping them to begin breaking the Confederate siege of the city.
- 1950 – The "Storm of the Century", a large extratropical cyclone, struck the east coast of the United States before moving northeast.
- 1963 – Businessman Jack Ruby shot and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, during a live television broadcast, fueling conspiracy theories on the matter.
- 1971 – After collecting a ransom payout of US$200,000, "D. B. Cooper" leaped out of the rear stairway of the airplane he had hijacked over the Pacific Northwest and disappeared.
- 2015 – A Turkish fighter jet shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M, claiming the latter had strayed into Turkish airspace and ignored warnings to change course.
- Born/died this day: Magnús Óláfsson (d. 1265) · William Webb Ellis (b. 1806) · Anna Jarvis (d. 1948)
Notes
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy featured on November 22, so Ruby/Oswald should not appear in the same year
- Battle of Missionary Ridge appears on November 25, so Battle of Lookout Mountain should not appear in the same year
November 24: Holodomor Remembrance Day in Ukraine (2018)
On the Origin of Species
- 1750 – Tarabai, former regent of the Maratha Empire, had Rajaram II, whom she had previously claimed was her grandson, arrested as an impostor.
- 1859 – On the Origin of Species (title page pictured) by British naturalist Charles Darwin was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day.
- 1922 – Irish Civil War: Author and Irish nationalist Erskine Childers was executed by the Irish Free State for illegally carrying a semi-automatic pistol.
- 1943 – World War II: Following the American capture of Makin Atoll, USS Liscome Bay was sunk by a torpedo from Japanese submarine I-175, killing 644.
- 2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, killed at least 117 people.
Junípero Serra (b. 1713) · Diego Rivera (d. 1957) · Beth Phoenix (b. 1980)
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