November 24

Tuesday 24, 1998:

America Online announces it will acquire Netscape Communications in a stock-for-stock transaction worth US$4.2 billion.

Sunday 24, 1996:

Rusty Wallace wins the Suzuka NASCAR Thunder 100 racing event at Suzuka Circuitland in Suzuka City (this was the first NASCAR competition held in Japan).

Wednesday 24, 1993:

In the United Kingdom, 11-year olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the child murder of 2-year-old James Bulger of Liverpool (they were sentenced to "indefinite detention").

Tuesday 24, 1992:

In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.

Wednesday 24, 1976:

The Band gives its last public performance; Martin Scorsese is on hand to film it (see: The Last Waltz).

Wednesday 24, 1971:

During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a man calling himself Dan Cooper (commonly remembered as D. B. Cooper) parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he hijacked with US$200,000 in ransom money (he was never heard from again).

Monday 24, 1969:

Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.

Sunday 24, 1963:

Vietnam War: Newly sworn in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam militarily and economically.

Saturday 24, 1962:

The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.

Saturday 24, 1951:

The Broadway play Gigi opens starring little known actress Audrey Hepburn playing the lead character (the play ran for six months and led to Hepburn's film debut in Roman Holiday).

Monday 24, 1947:

Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France

Friday 24, 1944:

The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital of Tokyo from the east and by land was made by 88 American aircraft.

Monday 24, 1941:

World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.

Sunday 24, 1935:

The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.

Thursday 24, 1932:

In Washington, DC, the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.

Friday 24, 1922:

Popular author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.

Thursday 24, 1904:

The first successful caterpillar track is made (it would later revolutionize construction vehicles and land warfare).

Tuesday 24, 1863:

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.

Thursday 24, 1859:

British naturalist Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species, a book which argues that organisms gradually evolve through natural selection (it immediately sold out its initial print run).

Monday 24, 1642:

Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).

Thursday 24, 1639:

Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus (November 24 in the Julian calendar, or December 4 in the Gregorian calendar).

Thursday 24, 642:

Theodore succeeds John IV as Pope.

Monday 24, 380:

Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.

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