Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On November 24, 1974, a young paleoanthropologist spotted an arm bone in an Ethiopian gully and rewrote the human family tree.
On 24 November 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and the entire trade printing was snapped up almost at once.
On November 24, 1859, Darwin published the book that founded modern biology — and the entire first printing was snapped up at once.
