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November 24th, 2007	Event	Kevin Rudd becomes the 26th elected Prime Minister of Australia.
November 24th, 2006	Event	Israeli rapist Benny Sela escapes from police custody while being transferred to a court hearing.
November 24th, 2005	Event	Conservative leader Stephen Harper, the leader of the Official Opposition in the Canadian Parliament, introduces a motion of no confidence, which NDP leader Jack Layton seconds. The motion is passed on November 28 leading to the dissolution of the 38th Canadian Parliament.
November 24th, 1993	Event	In Liverpool, 11-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the murder of 2-year-old James Bulger.
November 24th, 1992	Event	In the People s Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
November 24th, 1974	Event	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.
November 24th, 1971	Event	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 US$200,000 in ransom moneyneither he nor the money have ever been found.
November 24th, 1969	Event	Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
November 24th, 1966	Event	A Bulgarian plane with 82 people on board crashes near Bratislava, Slovakia.
November 24th, 1966	Event	New York City experiences the smoggiest day in the city s history.

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