On this day... November 24:

On this day...

November 24:  Feast day of Vietnamese Martyrs (Roman Catholicism) 1642 – A Dutch expedition led by Abel Tasman reached present-day Tasmania, Australia. 1859 – On the Origin of Species by British naturalistCharles Darwin was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day. 1906 – A local newspaper accused members of two teams of conspiring to deliberately lose games, the first major scandal in American football. 1962 – The influential television programme That Was the Week That Was, a significant element of the British satire boom, was first broadcast. 1974 – A group of paleoanthropologists discovered a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia, nicknaming it "Lucy" (reconstruction pictured).