1859 : The publication of Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species.’
1871 : National Rifle Association (NYC) formed.
1944 : In World War II, the 73rd Bombardment Wing launched the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.
1963 : Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of John F. Kennedy, was assassinated by Jack Ruby at the Dallas Police Station.
1969 : Apollo 12 landed on the moon.
1971 : During a severe thunderstorm over Washington State, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
1976 : A devastating earthquake shook eastern Turkey. 4 to 5 thousand people died in it.
1986 : Legislators expelled from the House for the first time in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly.
1988 : First time Lok Sabha MP Lalduhoma disqualified under Anti defection law.
1989 : The entire leadership of the then Communist Party in Czechoslovakia resigned collectively to usher in a new era.
1999 : Kunjurani Devi of India won a silver medal at the World Weightlifting Championships held in Athens.
2000 : External maps of 545 km of the demarcation line between India and China exchanged for the first time, says External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh.
2007 : Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif reached home after eight years of exile.
2008 : Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, accused in the Malegaon bomb blast case, accused the ATS of showing obscene CDs.
Famous Birthdays – November 24
1806: William Webb Ellis, founder of rugby football.
1914: Lynn Chadwick, British sculptor.
1919: Mahipal, was an Indian film actor.
1935: Salim Khan, an Indian screenwriter.
1943: Montek Singh Ahluwalia, an Indian economist, and civil servant.
1944: Amol Palekar, an Indian actor, director, and producer.
1941: Pete Best, Indian-English drummer, and lyricist.
1955: Ian Botham, an English cricketer.
1961: Arundhati Roy, an Indian author.
Death Anniversaries – November 24
1848: William Lamb, a British Whig statesman.
1916: Hiram Maxim, inventor of the Maxim gun.
1948: Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother’s Day.
1991: Freddie Mercury, a British singer, songwriter, record producer.
1992: Theodore Miller Edison, an American businessman, inventor, and environmentalist.
