Hundred Years’ War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité. The Hundred Years’ War was a long, tangled conflict between England and France that stretched…
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24 November 1642
Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen’s Land Van Diemen’s Land was the original name used by Europeans for Tasmania,…
24 November 1974
Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed “Lucy” (after The Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”), in…
24 November 1963
Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby.
24 November 1859
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species’]
24 November 1859
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species. On the Origin of Species or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural…
24 November 1969
The Apollo 12 command module splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon. Apollo 12, the second…
24 November 1877
The novel, Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell is published. Black Beauty, the fictional ‘autobiography’ of a talking horse, was published in November 24, 1877 and…