Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 24

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November 24: Thanksgiving in the United States (2005)

• 1642 - Dutch explorer Abel Tasman reached Tasmania. He named the island Anthoonij van Diemenslandt.
• 1859 - The Origin of Species by British naturalist Charles Darwin was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day.
• 1963 - On live television, Jack Ruby shot and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
• 1971 - After collecting a ransom payout of US$200,000, "D. B. Cooper" leaped out of the rear stairway of the airplane he had hijacked and disappeared.
• 1974 - The 3.18 million years old skeleton of "Lucy" (pictured) was discovered in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia.

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