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Events on November 24

• 1642 Abel Tasman was the first European to discover the island of Van Diemen’s Land, which was later renamed Tasmania after its discoverer.
• 1793 In France, the Revolutionary Calendar came into effect retroactively from September 22, 1792, the day of the abolition of the monarchy. The current date is therefore 4 Frimaire II.
• 1859 Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution in his work On the Origin of Species.
• 1874 The American Joseph Farwall Glidden obtained a patent for the barbed wire he had invented.
• 1933 The first German animal protection law is enacted.
• 1963 Nightclub owner Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged murderer of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in front of a live television camera while Oswald is being transferred to prison, thereby adding another mystery to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
• 1969 Apollo 12, with astronauts Charles Conrad, Alan Bean and Richard Gordon aboard, splashes down safely in the Pacific after their lunar flight.
• 1974 In Hadar in the Ethiopian Afar Depression, the well-preserved skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis known as Lucy is found, providing further insights into the history of human evolution.
• 1979 The first Media-Markt branch opens in Munich.
• 1989 In Czechoslovakia, the First Secretary of the Communist Party, Miloš Jakeš, resigns in response to continuing mass protests.
• 2000 Sony’s PlayStation 2 game console is released in the European market. It is still regarded as the most commercially successful game console.
• 2011 The first episode of the singing casting show The Voice of Germany is broadcast on ProSieben.

Born on November 24

• 1861 August Bier, German surgeon
• 1864 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter
• 1923 Zlatko Čajkovski, Yugoslav football player and coach
• 1940 Hermann Otto Solms, German politician
• 1941 Pete Best, British musician
• 1952 Norbert Haug, German journalist and sports manager
• 1952 Ilja Richter, German actor, voice actor, singer and television presenter
• 1961 Hartmut Engler, German singer and musician
• 1973 Azad, German rapper
• 1992 Carolin Simon, German football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „24. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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