Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 24
- 1642 - Abel Tasman led the first European expedition to reach Tasmania.
- 1859 - The Origin of Species by British naturalist Charles Darwin was first published, and it immediately sold out its initial print run.
- 1904 - The first successful caterpillar track was made.
- 1963 - Alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was mortally wounded when Jack Ruby shot him in Dallas, Texas on live national television.
- 1998 - America Online announced it would acquire Netscape Communications in a stock-for-stock transaction worth US$4.2 billion.
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