NOVEMBER 24 IN HISTORY

EVENTS ON NOVEMBER 24 IN HISTORY

• 1859 - Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"
• 1874 - Joseph F Glidden patents barbed wire
• 1914 - Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party
• 1922 - Italian parliament gives Benito Mussolini dictatorial powers "for 1 year"
• 1949 - British steel & iron industry nationalised
• 1958 - Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community
• 1964 - For 1st time since 1800, residents of Washngton DC permitted to vote
• 1966 – Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
• 1969 - Apollo 12 returns to Earth
• 1981 - 1st air-launched cruise missile tested
• 1989 - Tendulkar scores a Test Cricket fifty age 16 years 214 days, a record
• 2013 – Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.
• 2014 - A 12-year-old boy is shot dead by police in Cleveland, after brandishing what turned out to be a fake gun in a playground