|
What happened in history on this day: November 24?
On November 24 in ...
- 496 - Anastasius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 642 - Theodore I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 1572 - John Knox Scottish preacher, dies.
- 1632 - Birth of Benedict de "Baruch" Spinoza Amsterdam, rationalist philosopher.
- 1642 - Abel Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania).
- 1703 - First Lutheran pastor ordained in America, Justus Falckner at Philadelphia.
- 1713 - Birth of Father Junipero Serra had a mission in California.
- 1713 - Birth of Laurence Sterne Ireland, novelist/satirist (Tristram Shandy).
- 1759 - Destructive eruption of Vesuvius.
- 1784 - Birth of Zachary Taylor near Barboursville, Orange County, Virginia, USA; 12th US President (1849-50).
- 1793 - French Republic decree of new calendar, starting September 22, 1792, 12 months in year, each month 3 décades of 10 days each, extra 5 days at end of year for feast.
- 1832 - South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification.
- 1848 - Death of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1779).
- 1849 - Birth of Frances Hodgson Burnett; author of children's book (My Secret Garden).
- 1859 - Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of the Species By Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life is published in England.
- 1864 - Birth of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in France; painter (At the Moulin Rouge).
- 1868 - Birth of Scott Joplin; US entertainer/composer ("The Entertainer").
- 1871 - National Rifle Association organizes (New York City).
- 1874 - Joseph F Glidden patents barbed wire.
- 1876 - Birth of Walter Griffin; US architect, city planner; designed Canberra, Australia.
- 1877 - Birth of Alben W Barkley in Graves County, Kentucky, USA; 35th US Vice President-Democrat (1949-53).
- 1888 - Birth of Cathleen Nesbitt in Belfast, Ireland; actress (Agatha - Farmer's Daughter).
- 1888 - Birth of Dale Carnegie; author (How to Win Friends and Influence People).
- 1889 - Birth of Albert J Sylvester in England; ballroom dancer (Alex Moor Award-1977).
- 1896 - First US absentee voting law enacted by Vermont.
- 1897 - Birth of Salvatore Lucania AKA Charlie Luciano AKA Lucky Luciano in Sicily, Italy; New York City Mafia gangster.
- 1903 - Clyde Coleman of New York City patents automobile electric starter.
- 1905 - Birth of Irene Wicker; singer/actress (Singing Lady).
- 1908 - Birth of Libertad Lamaraque in Agentina; actress (Madreselva, Puerta Cerrada).
- 1908 - Birth of Ray Carter in Chicago, Illinois, USA; orchestra leader (Arthur Murray Dance Party).
- 1911 - Birth of Kirby Grant in Butte, Montana, USA; actor (Sky King).
- 1912 - Birth of Garson Kanin; American playwright/producer (Double Life).
- 1912 - Birth of Geraldine Fitzgerald in Dublin, Ireland; actress (Pawnbroker, Easy Money).
- 1917 - Birth of Howard Duff in Bremerton, Washington, USA; actor (Flamingo Road, Knots Landing).
- 1918 - Birth of Tom C Fouts AKA Captain Stubby in Carroll County, Indiana, USA; actor (Polka-go-round).
- 1918 - Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes is formed.
- 1921 - Birth of John V Lindsay; American politician (Mayor-Republican/Democrat-New York, 1965-73).
- 1925 - Birth of William F Buckley Junior; right-wing curmudgeon (Firing Line).
- 1927 - Birth of Alfredo Kraus in Las Palmas, Canary Islands; tenor ("La Scala").
- 1929 - Birth of Eileen Barton in Brooklyn, New York, USA; singer (Broadway Open House).
- 1930 - Birth of Dante Lavelli; AAFC/NFL end (Cleveland Browns).
- 1932 - Birth of Katalin Juhasz-Nagy in Hungary; foils (Olympic-gold-1964).
- 1934 - Birth of Alfred Schnittke in Russia; composer (Saint Florian).
- 1934 - Birth of Martin Charnin; Broadway lyricist (Annie, West Side Story).
- 1935 - Birth of Ron Dellums in Oakland, California, USA; American politician (Representative-Democrat-California).
- 1938 - National Semi-Pro Basketball Congress authorizes yellow basketball.
- 1939 - Birth of Yoshinobu Miyake in Japan; featherweight (Olympic-gold-1964, 1968).
- 1942 - Birth of Billy Connolly in Scotland; comedian/actor (Blue Money).
- 1942 - Birth of Marlin Fitzwater; press secretary (George Bush).
- 1944 - US bombers based on Saipan first attack Tokyo, Japan.
- 1946 - Last day of Office of Price Administration in the USA.
- 1947 - Birth of Dwight Schultz in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; actor (The A-Team).
- 1947 - John Steinbeck's novel The Pearl published.
- 1947 - Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists.
- 1948 - Birth of Steve Yeager; catcher (Los Angeles Dodger).
- 1949 - Britain nationalizes its steel and iron industry.
- 1950 - Birth of Damon Evans in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; actor (Lionel - The Jeffersons).
- 1950 - Birth of Roscoe Born in Topeka, Kansas, USA; actor (Mark - Paper Dolls).
- 1951 - Birth of Gaby Landhage in Goteborg, Sweden; model (Model of the Rear).
- 1954 - First US Presidential airplane christened.
- 1956 - Birth of Doug Davidson; actor (The Young and the Restless).
- 1957 - Birth of Denise Crosby in Hollywood, California, USA; actress (Tasha Yar - Star Trek: The Next Generation).
- 1958 - Birth of Carmel (McCourt) in England; rocker (Storm, More More More).
- 1958 - Comedian Harry Einstein dies while performing at a Friars Club roast for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
- 1958 - Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community.
- 1959 - Dr Lyman Bryson, educator (UN Casebook), dies at age 71.
- 1960 - Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record).
- 1962 - James J Kilroy, tank inspector (Kilroy was here), dies at age 60.
- 1963 - Birth of Lisa Howard; actress (Days of Our Lives, Rolling Vengeance).
- 1963 - Jack Ruby fatally shoots suspected President John Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald at Dallas police headquarters in Dallas, Texas. First live murder on TV.
- 1963 - US President Lyndon Johnson issues National Security Action Memo Number 273, discarding John Kennedy's peace plans for America in Vietnam.
- 1964 - Rebellion ends in Congo.
- 1966 - First TV station in Congo, Kinshasa (Zaïre).
- 1966 - 400 die of respiratory failure and heart attack in killer New York City smog.
- 1969 - Apollo 12 returns to Earth.
- 1970 - Stanford's quarterback Jim Plunkett wins Heisman Trophy.
- 1971 - Dan "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest Airlines 727 jet aircraft over Washington State, USA with US$200,000 ransom money, never to be seen again.
- 1971 - Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison in New Jersey.
- 1972 - ABC-TV begins live airing weekly show In Concert.
- 1974 - Charles Quinlivan, actor (Frank - Mr Garland), dies at age 50.
- 1976 - NBA Atlanta Hawks end a 28-game road losing streak.
- 1976 - In the Turkey-Iran border region, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs. At least 5,000 people killed. Caldira, Muradiye, and surrounding villages near the Iranian border completely destroyed.
- 1977 - Miami Dolphins' Bob Greise passes for six touchdowns vs Saint Louis Cardinals (55-14).
- 1977 - Death of Richard Carlson at age 65 of a cerebral hemmorhage; actor (I Led Three Lives TV show, MacKenzie's Raiders TV show).
- 1979 - Los Angeles Kings' Charley Simmer fails on 8th penalty shot against New York Islanders.
- 1981 - CBS-TV airs the first episode of TV show Simon & Simon.
- 1983 - Palestinian Liberation Organization exchanges six Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese.
- 1987 - In Southern California, magnitude 6.5 and 6.7 earthquakes occur, about 12 hours apart. Felt throughout much of southern California from San Diego and Los Angeles to Las Vegas, Nevada and Tempe, Arizona. Also felt at Tijuana and Ensenada, Mexico.
- 1989 - Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia.
- 1991 - Death of Freddie Mercury of AIDS at age 46; lead singer (Queen) (born 1946).
- 1991 - First international flight from Long Island's MacArthur Airport (to Mexico).
- 1991 - Death of Eric Carr, American drummer (Kiss) at age 41 (born 1950).
- 1991 - US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 launched.
- 1992 - In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
- 1993 - Fox releases the film Mrs. Doubtfire to theaters.
- 1993 - In the United Kingdom, 11-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the child murder of 2-year-old James Bulger of Liverpool.
- 1994 - Death of Charles Hazlitt Upham at age 84 in New Zealand; nominated for three Victoria Crosses (won one) for fighting in World War II.
- 1996 - The Toronto Argonauts defeat the Edmonton Eskimos 43-37 to win the 84th Grey Cup at Ivor Wynne Stadium in Hamilton, Ontario. The game is notable for the heavy snowfall that took place, resulting in the game being dubbed "The Snow Bowl".
- 1998 - America Online announces an agreement to acquire Netscape Communications for US$4.2 billion in stock.
- 2001 - Former German Minister of Defense, Gerhard Stoltenberg (CDU) dies of cancer at his home in Bonn-Bad Godesberg.
- 2002 - The Montreal Alouettes win the Canadian Football League Championship for the first time since relocating from Baltimore, defeating the host Edmonton Eskimos 25-16 in the 90th Grey Cup at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta.
- 2002 - Death of John Rawls, American political theorist (born 1921).
- 2003 - The High Court in Glasgow imposes a minimum sentence of 27 years for Al Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
- 2005 - The Licensing Act 2003 comes into force in England and Wales, introducing flexibility in the hours during which alcoholic beverages may be sold.
- 2005 - Death of Pat Morita at age 73; comedian, American actor (Arnold - Happy Days, Karate Kid movies).
- 2007 - The National Australian Football League draft takes place.
- 2007 - Australian Labor Party wins the federal election in Australia; Labor leader Kevin Rudd is elected to succeed John Howard as Prime Minister of Australia.
- 2007 - Police break up anti-Putin demonstrations in Saint Petersburg and Moscow.
- 2007 - Death of Casey Calvert, American musician (Hawthorne Heights) (born 1981).
- 2008 - Floods in Santa Catarina, Brazil kill 126 and force the evacuation of over 78,000 people.
- 2009 - A rare first-edition copy of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species book sells at Christie's auction house in England for 103,250 pounds (US$171,000).
- 2009 - Death of Samak Sundaravej, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1935).
- 2010 - Buena Vista releases the film Tangled to theaters.
- 2013 - Iran agrees to limit their nuclear development program in exchange for sanctions relief.
- 2015 - Turkey shoots down a Russian fighter jet in the first case of a NATO member destroying a Russian aircraft since the 1950s.
- 2016 - The Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the Colombian conflict.
- 2017 - A mosque attack in Sinai, Egypt kills 305 worshippers and leaves hundreds more wounded.
- 2019 - A plane crashes shortly after takeoff in a densely populated area of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing all 19 people on board and at least 10 more on the ground.
- 2020 - Death of Mamadou Tandja, 7th President of Niger (born 1938).
- 2021 - German coalition government forms, of Social Democrats, Green Party, and Free Democrats, with chancellor Olaf Scholz.
- 2021 - India's health ministry announces the country's overall fertility rate has dropped to 2.0 children per woman, and to 1.6 in cities.
- 2021 - The Omicron strain of SARS-COV-2 is first identified.
- 2021 - NASA launches the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the first attempt to deflect an asteroid for the purpose of learning how to protect Earth.
- 2021 - Magdalena Andersson resigns as Prime Minister-elect of Sweden hours after the Riksdag voted her in as Sweden's first female Prime Minister.
- 2022 - Death of Hans Magnus Enzensberger at age 93; German writer, poet, cultural critic, public intellectual.
|
|
vvv advertisement vvv
^^^ advertisement ^^^
You can pick a particular day to view that day's events in history.
Bookmark this URL: http://kpolsson.com/thisday/ and revisit each day.
(this URL will automatically re-direct to the file containing the current day's events)
Or, visit my Timelines of History page.
|