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24 November, 2007
Casey Calvert, guitarist and back up vocals for the band Hawthorne Heights, passed away November 24. Reasons currently unknown.
24 November, 2005
Conservative leader Stephen Harper, the leader of the Official Opposition in the Canadian Parliament, introduces a motion of no confidence, which NDP leader Jack Layton seconds. The motion is passed on November 28 leading to the dissolution of the 38th Canadian Parliament.
24 November, 1998
America Online announces it will acquire Netscape Communications in a stock-for-stock transaction worth US$4.2 billion.
24 November, 1993
In Liverpool, 11-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the murder of 2-year-old James Bulger.
24 November, 1992
In the Peoples Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
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 the Awash Valley of Ethiopias Afar Depression.
24 November, 1971
During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D.B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with US$200,000 in ransom money - neither he nor the money have ever been found.
24 November, 1969
Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
24 November, 1966
A Bulgarian plane with 82 people on board crashes near Bratislava, Slovakia.
24 November, 1966
New York City experiences the smoggiest day in the citys history.
24 November, 1965
Joseph Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Congo and becomes President; he goes on to rule the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
24 November, 1963
Lee Harvey Oswald is assassinated by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters.
24 November, 1963
Vietnam War: Newly sworn-in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam both militarily and economically.
24 November, 1962
The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
24 November, 1960
Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in one game, setting an NBA record.
24 November, 1947
Red Scare: After the so-called Hollywood 10 refuse to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of Communist influence in the movie industry, the United States House of Representatives votes 346 to 17 to approve citations of contempt of Congress against them.
24 November, 1947
Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France.
24 November, 1944
World War II: Bombing of Tokyo - The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft.
24 November, 1943
World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks with nearly 650 men killed.
24 November, 1941
World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
24 November, 1935
The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
24 November, 1932
In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
24 November, 1922
Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
24 November, 1917
Nine police officers and one civilian are killed when a bomb explodes at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin police headquarters building.
24 November, 1904
The first successful caterpillar track is made.
24 November, 1898
The International Conference of Rome for the Social Defense Against Anarchists opens.
24 November, 1863
American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain - Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
24 November, 1859
Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species.
24 November, 1642
Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemens Land (later renamed Tasmania).
24 November, 1639
Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus.
24 November, 1190
Isabella of Jerusalem marries Conrad of Montferrat at Acre, making him de jure King.
24 November, 380
Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.

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