On this day in History - 24 Nov

• 1615 - French King Louis XIII married Ann of Austria. They were both 14 years old
• 1859 - Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"
• 1906 - António Gedeão (Rómulo Vasco da Gama de Carvalho) portuguese poetry born
• 1958 - Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community
• 1969 - Apollo 12 returns to Earth
• 1983 - The Palestine Liberation Organization released six Israeli prisoners in exchange for the release of 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese held by the Israelis
• 1989 - Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
• 1991 - Freddie Mercury, musician (Queen) -Death
• 1992 - In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight (Boeing 734) crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
• 1997 - Following a 554.26 point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), officials at the New York Stock Exchange for the first time invoke the "circuit breaker" rule to stop trading