1859
Charles Darwin publishes On Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life.
| 1542 | The English defeat the Scots at the Battle of Solway Moss in England. | |
| 1859 | Charles Darwin publishes On Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. The first printing of 1,250 copies sells out in a single day. | |
| 1863 | In the Battle Above the Clouds, Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker‘s forces take Lookout Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tennessee. | |
| 1864 | Kit Carson and his 1st Cavalry, New Mexico Volunteers, attack a camp of Kiowa Indians in the First Battle of Adobe Walls. | |
| 1874 | Joseph Glidden receives a patent for barbed wire. | |
| 1902 | The first Congress of Professional Photographers convenes in Paris. | |
| 1912 | Austria denounces Serbian gains in the Balkans; Russia and France back Serbia while Italy and Germany back Austria. | |
| 1927 | Federal officials battle 1,200 inmates after prisoners in Folsom Prison revolt. | |
| 1938 | Mexico seizes oil land adjacent to Texas. | |
| 1939 | In Czechoslovakia, the Gestapo execute 120 students who are accused of anti-Nazi plotting. | |
| 1943 | The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine near Tarawa during Operation Galvanic and sinks, killing 650 men. [From MHQ—The Quarterly Journal of Military History] | |
| 1944 | American B-29s flying from Saipan bomb Tokyo. | |
| 1949 | The Iron and Steel Act nationalizes the steel industry in Britain. | |
| 1950 | UN troops begin an assault into the rest of North Korea, hoping to end the Korean War by Christmas. | |
| 1961 | The United Nations adopts bans on nuclear arms over American protests. | |
| 1963 | Jack Ruby fatally shoots the accused assassin of President John Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, in the garage of the Dallas Police Department. | |
| 1977 | Greece announces the discovery of the tomb of King Philip II, father of Alexander the Great. | |
| 1979 | The United States admits that thousands of troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange. | |
| 1992 | The US Congress passes the Brady Bill requiring a 5-day waiting period for handgun sales; the bill is named for Pres. Ronald Reagan‘s press secretary who was left partially paralyzed by a bullet during an assassination attempt on Reagan. | |
| 1995 | Ireland votes 50.28% to 49.72% to end its 70-year-old ban on divorce. | |
| 2012 |
A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills over 110 people.
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Born on November 24
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| 1784 | Zachary Taylor, general during the Mexican War, 12th President of the United States. | |
| 1826 | Carlo Collodi, the creator of Pinocchio. | |
| 1849 | Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden. | |
| 1859 | Cass Gilbert, architect. | |
| 1864 | Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, French post-impressionist painter. | |
| 1868 | Scott Joplin, composer. | |
| 1886 | Margaret Anderson, editor, founder of The Little Review. | |
| 1888 | Dale Carnegie, author of How to Win Friends and Influence People. | |
| 1912 | Garson Kanin, writer and director (Born Yesterday). | |
| 1925 | William F. Buckley, Jr., journalist, founder of National Review. | |
| 1946 | Ted Bundy, serial killer; he confessed to 30 murders between 1974-78, but the total could be much higher. | |
| 1948 | Spider Robinson, Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction author (Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon; Melancholy Elephants); received the Robert A. Heinlein Award for lifetime achievement in 2008. | |
| 1949 | Linda Tripp, who secretly recorded Monica Lewinsky’s confidential phone calls about Lewinsky’s affair with then-President Bill Clinton. | |
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