Events on 24 November 35
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Polish Prince Leszek the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa.
Year 1248
In the middle of the night a mass on the north side of Mont Granier suddenly collapsed, in one of the largest historical rockslope failures known in Europe.
Year 1542
Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.
Year 1642
Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
Year 1835
The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
Year 1850
Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
Year 1863
American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
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