History for November 24

History for November 24 - On-This-Day.com
Zachary Taylor (U.S.) 1784, Bat Masterson 1853, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864


Scott Joplin 1868, Dale Carnegie 1888, William F. Buckley, Jr. 1925


1859 - Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, published "On the Origin of Species." It was the paper in which he explained his theory of evolution through the process of natural selection.


1871 - The National Rifle Association was incorporated in the U.S.


1874 - Joseph F. Glidden was granted a patent for a barbed fencing material.


1903 - Clyde J. Coleman received the patent for an electric self-starter for an automobile.













1940 - Nazis closed off the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Over the next three years the population dropped from 350,000 to 70,000 due to starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps.


1963 - Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald live on national television.


1971 - Hijacker Dan Cooper, known as D.B. Cooper, parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 over Washington state with $200,000 in ransom.


1987 - The U.S. and the Soviet Union agreed to scrap short- and medium-range missiles. It was the first superpower treaty to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons.