Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 24
November 24: Holodomor Remembrance Day in Ukraine (2007), Teachers' Day in Turkey
- 1190 – Conrad of Montferrat became de jure King of Jerusalem after marrying Queen Isabella.
- 1642 – Dutch explorer Abel Tasman reached Tasmania. He named the island Anthoonij van Diemenslandt after Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies Anthony van Diemen.
- 1859 – On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by British naturalist Charles Darwin (pictured) was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day.
- 1922 – Irish Civil War: Author and Irish nationalist Robert Erskine Childers was executed by firing squad by the Irish Free State for illegally carrying a revolver.
- 1974 – The 3.2-million-year-old skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis, nicknamed "Lucy" after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", was discovered in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia.
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