November 24Birthdays & History

On this day: November 24 in history

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1. 380Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.Middle East
2. 847An earthquake hits Syria, causing multiple casualties and damages in Antioch, Damascus and Mosul.Middle East
3. 1190Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem.Middle East
4. 1221Genghis Khan defeats the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus, completing the Mongol conquest of Central Asia.Asia
5. 1227Gąsawa massacre: At an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa, Polish Prince Leszek the White, Duke Henry the Bearded and others are attacked by assassins while bathing.Europe
6. 1248An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages.Europe
7. 1359Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father, Hugh IV of Cyprus, abdicates.Middle East
8. 1429Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.Europe
9. 1542Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.Europe
10. 1642Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).EuropeOceania
11. 1750Tarabai, regent of the Maratha Empire, imprisons Rajaram II of Satara for refusing to remove Balaji Baji Rao from the post of peshwa.Asia
12. 1832South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were null and void in the state, beginning the Nullification Crisis.North America
13. 1835The 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).North America
14. 1850Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.Europe
15. 1859British naturalist Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is published.Europe
16. 1863American 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.North America
17. 1877Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.Europe
18. 1906A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.AsiaNorth America
19. 1917In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.North America
20. 1922Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.Europe
21. 1929The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement officially begins when a group of mainly the former White Guard members, led by Vihtori Kosola, interrupted communism occasion at the Workers' House in Lapua, Finland.Europe
22. 1932In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.North America
23. 1935The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.Africa
24. 1940World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.Europe
25. 1941World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces.North AmericaEurope
26. 1943World War II: At the battle of Makin the USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.Oceania
27. 1944World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.Asia
28. 1962The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.Europe
29. 1962Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.Europe
30. 1963Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby on live television. Robert H. Jackson takes a photograph of the shooting that will win the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Photography.North America
31. 1965Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.Africa
32. 1966Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.Europe
33. 1969Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to land on the Moon.World
34. 1971During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.North America
35. 1973A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.Europe
36. 1974Donald 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.Africa
37. 1976The Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.Middle East
38. 1989After a week of mass protests against the Communist regime known as the Velvet Revolution, Miloš Jakeš and the entire Politburo of the Czechoslovak Communist Party resign from office. This brings an effective end to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia.Europe
39. 1991Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches on STS-44.World
40. 1992China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashes on approach to Guilin Qifengling Airport in Guilin, China, killing all 141 people on board.Asia
41. 2001Crossair Flight 3597 crashes in Bassersdorf near Zurich Airport, killing 24 people, including singer Melanie Thornton and two members of the German band Passion Fruit.Europe
42. 2009The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, is founded in Bucharest, Romania.Europe
43. 2012A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.Asia
44. 2013Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.Middle East
45. 2015An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.Africa
46. 2015A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria–Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.EuropeMiddle East
47. 2015A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others.Middle East
48. 2016The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's more than 50-year-long civil war.Latin America
49. 2017A terrorist attack on a Mosque in Al-Rawda, North Sinai, Egypt kills 311 people and injures 128.Middle East
50. 2022Five days after the general elections which resulted in a hung parliament, opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim is officially named as the 10th prime minister of Malaysia.Asia
51. 2023Hibiscus Rising, commemorating David Oluwale, is unveiled in Leeds.Europe

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