Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 24

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 * 1542 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: England captured about 1,200 Scots with a victory at the Battle of Solway Moss.
 * 1750 – Tarabai, the former regent of the Maratha Empire, had Rajaram II, whom she had previously claimed to be her grandson, arrested as an impostor.
 * 1859 – British naturalist Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day.
 * 1863 – American Civil War: As part of the Chattanooga campaign in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces captured Lookout Mountain, helping them to begin breaking the Confederate siege of the city.
 * 1906 – The second of two games between two Ohio football teams took place, after which accusations were made that players conspired to deliberately lose games.
 * 1943 – World War II: Following the American capture of Makin Atoll, USS Liscome Bay was sunk by a torpedo from Japanese submarine I-175, killing 644.
 * 1950 – The "Great Appalachian Storm", a large extratropical cyclone, struck the east coast of the United States before moving northeast.
 * 1963 – During a live television broadcast, businessman Jack Ruby shot and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated U.S. president John F. Kennedy, fueling numerous conspiracy theories.
 * 1971 – After collecting a ransom payout of $200,000, D. B. Cooper (depicted) parachuted out of the rear stairway of the airplane he had hijacked over the Pacific Northwest and disappeared.
 * 1976 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck eastern Turkey, destroying 80 per cent of the buildings in the area, with at least 4,000 casualties.
 * 2009 – The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, is launched in Bucharest, Romania.
 * 2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, killed at least 117 people.
 * 2015 – A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft was shot down by a Turkish fighter jet after the former allegedly strayed into Turkish airspace and ignored warnings to change course.
 * Born/died this day: | Bagrat IV of Georgia |d|1072| Pietro Torrigiano |b|1472| Laurence Sterne |b|1713| Zachary Taylor |b|1784| Philip Hamilton |d|1801| William Webb Ellis |b|1806| Anna Jarvis |d|1948| Diego Rivera |d|1957| Arundhati Roy |b|1961| Goo Hara|d|2019