November 24: Feast day of Vietnamese Martyrs (Roman Catholicism); Thanksgiving in the United States (2016)
Charles Darwin
- 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 (pictured) 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.
- 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.
- 1976 – The Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey killed at least 4,000 people.
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