November 24

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1429	Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.	Joan of Arc	Mean To March	So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness
2.	1835	The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety.	The Rangers	Let's Go Rangers	GS I Love You
3.	1859	Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.	The Stills	Changes are No Good	Logic Will Break Your Heart
4.	1922	Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.	The Pixies	There Goes My Gun	Doolittle
5.	1932	In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.	The Magnetic Fields	It's a Crime	69 Love Songs, Vol. 3
6.	1950	The "Storm of the Century", a violent snowstorm, paralyzes the northeastern United States and the Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia, records 57 inches of snow. 323 people die as a result of the storm.	Julie Doiron	Snowfalls in November	Goodnight Nobody
7.	1963	Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. The shooting happens to be broadcast live on television.	Silver Apples	Ruby	Ruby
8.	1971	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.	Stars	The Vanishing	Heart
9.	1973	A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasted only four months.	Nada Surf	Hi Speed Soul	Let Go
10.	1974	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.	The Beatles	Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

(Historical facts about November 24 are from Wikipedia.)