Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 24
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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. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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"Origin of Species" -
Charles Darwin in 1854 -
Charles Darwin -
Mobutu -
A 1972 FBI composite drawing of D. B. Cooper
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1190 – Conrad of Montferrat became de jure uxoris King of Jerusalem after marrying Queen Isabella I. | refimprove, needs more footnotes |
| 1965 – Mobutu seized power from Congo President Joseph Kasa-Vubu after a bloodless coup d'état. | unreferenced sections, article says Nov 25 |
Eligible
- 1642 – A Dutch expedition led by Abel Tasman reached present-day Tasmania, Australia.
- 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.
- 1922 – Irish Civil War: Author and Irish nationalist Robert Erskine Childers was executed by the Irish Free State for illegally carrying a semi-automatic pistol.
- 1950 – The "Storm of the Century", a large extratropical cyclone, struck the east coast of the United States before moving northeast.
- 1966 – TABSO Flight 101 crashed near Bratislava, killing all 82 on board, making it Slovakia's worst air disaster.
- 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.
November 24: Feast day of Vietnamese Martyrs (Roman Catholicism); Teachers' Day in Turkey; Thanksgiving in the United States (2011)
- 1542 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: England captured about 1,200 Scottish prisoners with its victory in the Battle of Solway Moss.
- 1859 – On the Origin of Species by British naturalist Charles Darwin was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day.
- 1906 – A local newspaper accused members of two teams of conspiring to deliberately lose games, the first major scandal in American football.
- 1963 – Businessman Jack Ruby shot and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, during a live television broadcast, fueling conspiracy theories on the matter.
- 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" (reconstruction pictured).