Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 24
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This is a list of selected November 24 anniversaries that appears on 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 may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.November 24: 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.
More events: November 23 – November 24 – November 25
