This Day in History Nov. 24

Nov. 24

1642 Abel Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
1832 South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification
1835 The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of the Texas Rangers
1859 Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"
1863 Civil War battle for Lookout Mountain began in Tennessee
1871 National Rifle Association organized (NYC)
1874 Joseph F Glidden patents barbed wire
1880 Southern University established
1896 1st US absentee voting law enacted by Vermont
1903 Clyde Coleman of NYC patents automobile electric starter
1930 1st woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, NY to CA)
1932 The FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) opens
1941 The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces
1943 The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks
1944 US bombers based on Saipan, 1st attack Tokyo
1947 Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt
1949 Britain nationalizes its steel & iron industry
1954 1st US Presidential airplane christened
1958 Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community
1963 1st live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
1964 Rebellion ends in Zaire
1969 Apollo 12 returns to Earth
1971 Dan "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200,000
1989 Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
1991 1st international flight from Long Island's MacArthur Airport
1991 US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 launched

First US attack on Tokyo was Doolittle's Raid, April 18 1942. I know it says based on Saipan depends on how you read it.