Wiki143:Selected anniversaries/November 24
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On the Origin of Species
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Charles Darwin in 1854
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Charles Darwin
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Mobutu Sese Seko
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Bedřich Fritta's drawing of the barracks in Theresienstadt
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Ruby about to shoot Oswald
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The Death of Leszek the White
by Jan Matejko, 1880
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| ; 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 – Leszek the White, High Duke of Poland, was assassinated during a meeting of Piast dukes. | Bold article (Gąsawa massacre) does not specify the date |
| 1642 – A Dutch expedition led by Abel Tasman reached what is now Tasmania, Australia. | refimprove section |
| 1832 – South Carolina passed the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were null and void in the state, beginning the Nullification crisis. | too many quotes |
| 1877 – Anna Sewell's influential animal welfare novel Black Beauty, one of the best-selling books of all time, was first published. | unreferenced section |
| 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. | refimprove section, 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 |
| 2016 – The Colombian government signed a revised peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, temporarily bringing an end to the ongoing civil war. | Peace process: lead too short; Conflict: lots of CN tags (27) |
| Junípero Serra |b|1713 | refimprove |
| Mingyi Nyo |d|1530| | missing citations |
| Beth Phoenix |b|1980| | Citations needed orange banner |
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- 1221 – Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire: Genghis Khan defeated the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus.
- 1750 – Tarabai, the former regent of the Maratha Empire, had Rajaram II, whom she had previously claimed to be her grandson, arrested as an impostor.
- 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.
- 1906 – The second of two games between two Ohio football teams took place, after which accusations were made that players conspired to deliberately lose games.
- 1922 – Irish Civil War: Irish nationalist author Erskine Childers was executed by the Irish Free State for illegally carrying a semi-automatic pistol.
- 1925 – The Eugene O'Neill Theatre opened on Broadway, New York, with a production of the musical Mayflowers.
- 1941 – The Holocaust: The Theresienstadt Ghetto was founded as a waystation to Nazi extermination camps and a "retirement settlement" for elderly and prominent Jews to mislead their communities about the Final Solution.
- 1943 – World War II: Following the American capture of Makin Atoll, Template:USS was sunk by a torpedo from Japanese submarine I-175, killing 644.
- 1950 – The "Great Appalachian Storm", a large extratropical cyclone, struck the east coast of the United States before moving northeast.
- 1963 – During a live television broadcast, businessman Jack Ruby shot and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated U.S. president John F. Kennedy, fueling numerous conspiracy theories.
- 1971 – After collecting a ransom payout of $200,000, D. B. Cooper (depicted) parachuted out of the rear stairway of the airplane he had hijacked over the Pacific Northwest and disappeared.
- 2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, killed at least 117 people.
- 2015 – A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft was shot down by a Turkish fighter jet after the former allegedly strayed into Turkish airspace and ignored warnings to change course.
- Born/died this day: | Bagrat IV of Georgia |d|1072| Magnús Óláfsson |d|1265| Pietro Torrigiano |b|1472| Laurence Sterne |b|1713| Philip Hamilton |d|1801| William Webb Ellis |b|1806| William P. Ragsdale |d|1877| Oscar Robertson|b|1938| Anna Jarvis |d|1948| Sylvie Kinigi|b|1953| Diego Rivera |d|1957| Arundhati Roy |b|1961|
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
- Ann Jarvis appears on September 30, so Anna Jarvis (her daughter) should not appear in the same year
November 24: Feast day of the Vietnamese Martyrs (Catholicism) Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1542 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces captured about 1,200 Scots at the Battle of Solway Moss.
- 1859 – British naturalist Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day.
- 1976 – A magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck eastern Turkey, destroying 80 per cent of buildings in the region and causing at least 4,000 casualties.
- 2009 – The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, was launched in Bucharest, Romania.
- 2023 – Hibiscus Rising (pictured), a sculpture commemorating the life of David Oluwale, was unveiled in Leeds.
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