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- 1817
- The Tennessee General Assembly creates Wayne County from Hickman County and unorganized territory. The act is technically invalid, but citizens proceed to organize the county anyways.
- 1867
- Smithfield Market opens in London.
- 1882
- The Vestfold Line opens between Larvik to Skien in Norway.
- 1902
- The Territory of Quintana Roo is created as a federal territory of Mexico by decree of President Porfirio Diaz.
- 1926
- Carmel of Thérèse of Lisieux is founded in Manila.
- 1948
- Dumaguete becomes a city in Negros Oriental, Philippines.
- 2011
- In Sunnyvale, California, after the Severns–Pease Christmas Display’s operator dies suddenly, Anthony Bernal continues the annual tradition with the Lights on Peach Avenue.
- 2013
- A telephone booth is blown up in Schwerte, Germany.
- 2019
- St. Luke’s Medical Center closes after 112 years in operation in Phoenix, Arizona.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on November 24, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on November 24 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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