History Events on November 24

A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.
#Autobahn

In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
#Milwaukee

Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father, Hugh IV of Cyprus, abdicates.
#Peter_I_of_Cyprus

South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring that the Tariffs of 1832 and 1838 were null and void in the state, beginning the Nullification Crisis.
#South_Carolina

Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
#Mobutu_Sese_Seko

A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria–Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.
#Russian_Air_Force

World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
#World_War_II

Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
#Anna_Sewell

Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem.
#Conrad_of_Montferrat

Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.
#Iran

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

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 Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
#Donald_Johanson

The Çald?ran-Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.
#1976_Çald?ran-Muradiye_earthquake

Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.
#Irish_Republican_Army

Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
#TABSO_Flight_101

Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
#Cold_War

The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
#Senegalese_Socialist_Party

Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.
#Battle_of_Solway_Moss

Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
#Charles_Darwin

In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
#Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation

China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashes on approach to Guilin Qifengling Airport in Guilin, China, killing all 141 people on board.
#China_Southern_Airlines_Flight_3943

An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.
#2015_Tunis_bombing

The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's more than 50-year-long civil war.
#Colombia

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

Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby.
#Lee_Harvey_Oswald

World War II: At the battle of Makin the USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
#Battle_of_Makin

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.
#American_Civil_War

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

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 $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
#Washington_(state)

G?sawa massacre: At an assembly of Piast dukes at G?sawa, Polish Prince Leszek the White, Duke Henry the Bearded and others are attacked by assassins while bathing.
#G?sawa_massacre

An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages.
#Mont_Granier

The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
#That_Was_the_Week_That_Was

Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.
#Hundred_Years'_War

Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon.
#Apollo_program

Tarabai, regent of the Maratha Empire, imprisons Rajaram II for refusing to remove Balaji Baji Rao from the post of peshwa.
#Tarabai