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24th of November 0380 EVENT Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
24th of November 1429 EVENT Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charite.
24th of November 1542 EVENT Battle of Solway Moss: The English army defeats the Scots.
24th of November 1639 EVENT Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree observe the transit of Venus, an event Horrocks had predicted.
24th of November 1642 EVENT Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
24th of November 1835 EVENT 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).
24th of November 1850 EVENT Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
24th of November 1859 EVENT Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, the anniversary of which is sometimes called "Evolution Day"
24th of November 1863 EVENT 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.
24th of November 1906 EVENT The Canton Bulldogs-Massillon Tigers Betting Scandal, the first major scandal in professional American football.
24th of November 1922 EVENT Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
24th of November 1932 EVENT In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
24th of November 1935 EVENT The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
24th of November 1940 EVENT World War II: Slovakia becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
24th of November 1941 EVENT World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
24th of November 1943 EVENT World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
24th of November 1944 EVENT World War II: Bombing of Tokyo : The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft.
24th of November 1950 EVENT The "Storm of the Century", a violent snowstorm, paralyzes the northeastern United States and the Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia, records 57 inches of snow. 323 people die as a result of the storm.
24th of November 1962 EVENT The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
24th of November 1963 EVENT Vietnam War: Newly sworn-in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam both militarily and economically.
24th of November 1963 EVENT Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. The shooting happens to be broadcast live on television.
24th of November 1965 EVENT Joseph Desire Mobutu seizes power in 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.
24th of November 1966 EVENT Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
24th of November 1969 EVENT Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
24th of November 1971 EVENT During 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.
24th of November 1973 EVENT A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasted only four months.
24th of November 1974 EVENT Donald 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.
24th of November 1992 EVENT A China Southern Airlines domestic flight in the People's Republic of China, crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
24th of November 1993 EVENT In Liverpool, 11-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the murder of 2-year-old James Bulger.
24th of November 1273 BIRTHDAY Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (d. 1284)
24th of November 1394 BIRTHDAY Charles, Duke of Orleans, French poet (d. 1465)
24th of November 1420 BIRTHDAY John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (d. 1473)
24th of November 1583 BIRTHDAY Juan Martinez de Jauregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (d. 1641)
24th of November 1615 BIRTHDAY Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1690)
24th of November 1630 BIRTHDAY Etienne Baluze, French scholar (d. 1718)
24th of November 1632 BIRTHDAY Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (d. 1677)
24th of November 1655 BIRTHDAY Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)
24th of November 1690 BIRTHDAY Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1750)
24th of November 1713 BIRTHDAY Junipero Serra, Spanish missionary (d. 1784)
24th of November 1713 BIRTHDAY Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist (d. 1768)
24th of November 1724 BIRTHDAY Maria Amalia of Saxony, queen of Spain (d. 1760)
24th of November 1729 BIRTHDAY Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (d. 1800)
24th of November 1745 BIRTHDAY Maria Louisa of Spain, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1792)
24th of November 1774 BIRTHDAY Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (d. 1857)
24th of November 1784 BIRTHDAY Zachary Taylor, American general and 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
24th of November 1787 BIRTHDAY Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist (d. 1863)
24th of November 1801 BIRTHDAY Ludwig Bechstein, German poet (d. 1860)
24th of November 1806 BIRTHDAY William Webb Ellis, credited with the invention of Rugby (d. 1872)
24th of November 1811 BIRTHDAY Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1890)
24th of November 1815 BIRTHDAY Grace Darling, English heroine (d. 1842)
24th of November 1826 BIRTHDAY Carlo Collodi, Italian author (d. 1890)
24th of November 1833 BIRTHDAY Antoine Labelle, Quebec catholic priest (d. 1891)
24th of November 1849 BIRTHDAY Frances Hodgson Burnett, British-born author (d. 1924)
24th of November 1859 BIRTHDAY Cass Gilbert, American architect (d. 1934)
24th of November 1864 BIRTHDAY Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
24th of November 1868 BIRTHDAY Scott Joplin, Ragtime Composer (d. 1917)
24th of November 1869 BIRTHDAY Antonio Oscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (d. 1951)
24th of November 1873 BIRTHDAY Julius Martov, Russian communiust leader (d. 1923)
24th of November 1874 BIRTHDAY Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer (d. 1953)
24th of November 1876 BIRTHDAY Walter Burley Griffin, American architect (d. 1937)
24th of November 1877 BIRTHDAY Alben W. Barkley, American politician and 35th Vice President of the United States (d. 1956)
24th of November 1877 BIRTHDAY Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian CID Commissioner of Police (d. 1941)
24th of November 1881 BIRTHDAY Al Christie, Canadian-born film director and producer (d. 1951)
24th of November 1884 BIRTHDAY Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (d. 1963)
24th of November 1885 BIRTHDAY Christian Wirth, commandant of Belzec extermination camp (d. 1944)
24th of November 1886 BIRTHDAY Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher (d. 1973)
24th of November 1887 BIRTHDAY Erich von Manstein, German military commander (d. 1973)
24th of November 1888 BIRTHDAY Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist (d. 1972)
24th of November 1888 BIRTHDAY Dale Carnegie, American writer (d. 1955)
24th of November 1893 BIRTHDAY Charles F. Hurley, 54th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)
24th of November 1894 BIRTHDAY Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (d. 1978)
24th of November 1897 BIRTHDAY Lucky Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962)
24th of November 1899 BIRTHDAY Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (d. 1966)
24th of November 1908 BIRTHDAY Libertad Lamarque, Argentine actress and singer (d. 2000)
24th of November 1910 BIRTHDAY Larry Siemering, American college football head coach (d. 2009)
24th of November 1911 BIRTHDAY Kirby Grant, American actor (d. 1985)
24th of November 1911 BIRTHDAY Joe Medwick, baseball player (d. 1975)
24th of November 1912 BIRTHDAY Garson Kanin, American writer (d. 1999)
24th of November 1912 BIRTHDAY Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (d. 1993)
24th of November 1912 BIRTHDAY Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (d. 1986)
24th of November 1912 BIRTHDAY Barbara Sheldon, American actress (d. 2007)
24th of November 1913 BIRTHDAY Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (d. 2005)
24th of November 1916 BIRTHDAY Forrest J. Ackerman, American writer (d. 2008)
24th of November 1917 BIRTHDAY Shabtai Rosenne, British-born Israeli diplomat and jurist (d. 2010)
24th of November 1917 BIRTHDAY Howard Duff, American actor (d. 1990)
24th of November 1919 BIRTHDAY David Kossoff, British actor (d. 2005)
24th of November 1921 BIRTHDAY John Lindsay, American politician (d. 2000)
24th of November 1924 BIRTHDAY Victor Grinich, Croatian-American businessman (d. 2000)
24th of November 1925 BIRTHDAY William F. Buckley Jr., American writer (d. 2008)
24th of November 1925 BIRTHDAY Simon van der Meer, Nobel Prize laureate
24th of November 1926 BIRTHDAY Tsung-Dao Lee, Nobel Prize laureate
24th of November 1927 BIRTHDAY Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (d. 2003)
24th of November 1929 BIRTHDAY Franciszek Kokot, Polish nephrologist
24th of November 1930 BIRTHDAY Bob Friend, baseball player
24th of November 1934 BIRTHDAY Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (d. 1998)
24th of November 1935 BIRTHDAY Ronald Vernie Dellums, U.S. Representative from California
24th of November 1938 BIRTHDAY Charles Starkweather, American Spree Killer (d. 1959)
24th of November 1938 BIRTHDAY Oscar Robertson, American basketball player
24th of November 1938 BIRTHDAY Willy Claes, Belgian politician
24th of November 1940 BIRTHDAY Paul Tagliabue, retired commissioner of the National Football League
24th of November 1940 BIRTHDAY Don Metz, American architect
24th of November 1940 BIRTHDAY Eric Wilson, Canadian children's author.
24th of November 1941 BIRTHDAY Pete Best, British musician and original drummer for The Beatles.
24th of November 1941 BIRTHDAY Donald "Duck" Dunn, American musician (Booker T. and the M.G.'s)
24th of November 1942 BIRTHDAY Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian
24th of November 1942 BIRTHDAY Marlin Fitzwater, White House Press Secretary
24th of November 1943 BIRTHDAY Dave Bing, seven-time All-Star basketball player and 70th mayor of Detroit
24th of November 1943 BIRTHDAY Robin Williamson, Scottish musician
24th of November 1944 BIRTHDAY Dan Glickman, American political, Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas and the 26th United States Secretary of Agriculture
24th of November 1944 BIRTHDAY Bev Bevan, English rock drummer (The Move, Electric Light Orchestra)
24th of November 1944 BIRTHDAY Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian scholar
24th of November 1945 BIRTHDAY Lee Michaels, American musician and singer
24th of November 1946 BIRTHDAY Penelope Jones Halsall (aka Caroline Courtney, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright, Annie Groves, Penny Jordan), English novelist
24th of November 1946 BIRTHDAY Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989)
24th of November 1947 BIRTHDAY Dave Sinclair, English musician (Caravan, Hatfield and the North)
24th of November 1947 BIRTHDAY Dwight Schultz, American actor
24th of November 1948 BIRTHDAY Spider Robinson, science fiction author
24th of November 1948 BIRTHDAY Steve Yeager, baseball player
24th of November 1949 BIRTHDAY Shane Bourne, Australian comedian and actor
24th of November 1949 BIRTHDAY Linda Tripp, American political figure
24th of November 1950 BIRTHDAY Stanley Livingston, American actor
24th of November 1951 BIRTHDAY Mimis Androulakis, Greek politician and writer
24th of November 1951 BIRTHDAY Chet Edwards, American politician
24th of November 1952 BIRTHDAY Thierry Lhermitte, French comedian and actor
24th of November 1952 BIRTHDAY Norbert Haug, German motorsport executive (Mercedes Benz)
24th of November 1953 BIRTHDAY Glenn Withrow, American actor
24th of November 1954 BIRTHDAY Emir Kusturica, Serbian filmmaker
24th of November 1955 BIRTHDAY Clem Burke, American drummer (Blondie)
24th of November 1955 BIRTHDAY Ian Botham, England test cricketer
24th of November 1955 BIRTHDAY Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer
24th of November 1955 BIRTHDAY Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Swedish politician
24th of November 1957 BIRTHDAY Denise Crosby, American actress
24th of November 1957 BIRTHDAY Edward Stourton, British radio presenter
24th of November 1958 BIRTHDAY Roy Aitken, Scottish former footballer
24th of November 1958 BIRTHDAY Alain Chabat, French actor and director
24th of November 1959 BIRTHDAY Robert Juttner, German footballer
24th of November 1960 BIRTHDAY Amanda Wyss, American actress
24th of November 1960 BIRTHDAY Edgar Meyer, American bassist and composer
24th of November 1961 BIRTHDAY Arundhati Roy, Indian writer
24th of November 1961 BIRTHDAY Carlos Carnero, Spanish member of parliament
24th of November 1962 BIRTHDAY John Squire, British guitarist (The Stone Roses)
24th of November 1962 BIRTHDAY Tracey Wickham, Australian swimmer
24th of November 1962 BIRTHDAY John Kovalic, British-born cartoonist
24th of November 1964 BIRTHDAY Brad Sherwood, American comedian
24th of November 1964 BIRTHDAY Tony Rombola, American guitarist (Godsmack)
24th of November 1964 BIRTHDAY Garret Dillahunt, American actor
24th of November 1965 BIRTHDAY Kim Roe-ha, South Korean actor
24th of November 1965 BIRTHDAY Shirley Henderson, Scottish actress
24th of November 1966 BIRTHDAY Russell Watson, British singer
24th of November 1967 BIRTHDAY Henrik Brockmann, Danish heavy metal singer
24th of November 1967 BIRTHDAY Cal Eldred, American baseball player
24th of November 1968 BIRTHDAY Todd Beamer, American, acclaimed hero of United Airlines Flight 93 (d. 2001)
24th of November 1968 BIRTHDAY Bulent Korkmaz, Turkish footballer
24th of November 1969 BIRTHDAY Rob Nicholson, American musician
24th of November 1969 BIRTHDAY David Adeang, Nauruan politician
24th of November 1970 BIRTHDAY Julieta Venegas, Mexican singer
24th of November 1970 BIRTHDAY Doug Brien, American football player
24th of November 1970 BIRTHDAY Ashley Ward, British footballer
24th of November 1971 BIRTHDAY Keith Primeau, Canadian ice hockey player
24th of November 1971 BIRTHDAY Cosmas Ndeti, three-time Boston Marathon winner
24th of November 1974 BIRTHDAY Stephen Merchant, British comedian
24th of November 1974 BIRTHDAY Machel Montano, Trinidad & Tobago musician
24th of November 1974 BIRTHDAY Taro Yamamoto, Japanese actor
24th of November 1975 BIRTHDAY Thomas Kohnstamm, American writer
24th of November 1976 BIRTHDAY Dave Aizer, American television host
24th of November 1976 BIRTHDAY Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater
24th of November 1976 BIRTHDAY Christian Laflamme, Canadian ice hockey player
24th of November 1977 BIRTHDAY Colin Hanks, American actor
24th of November 1978 BIRTHDAY Katherine Heigl, American actress
24th of November 1979 BIRTHDAY Becca Barlow, American guitarist (BarlowGirl)
24th of November 1980 BIRTHDAY Beth Phoenix, American professional wrestler
24th of November 1982 BIRTHDAY Ryan Fitzpatrick, American football player
24th of November 1982 BIRTHDAY Sean O'Loughlin, English rugby league footballer
24th of November 1983 BIRTHDAY Dean Ashton, English footballer
24th of November 1983 BIRTHDAY Meredith Henderson, Canadian actress
24th of November 1983 BIRTHDAY Karine Vanasse, Canadian actress
24th of November 1983 BIRTHDAY Lars Eckert, German rugby player
24th of November 1984 BIRTHDAY Maria Riesch, German alpine skier
24th of November 1985 BIRTHDAY Julia Alexandratou, Greek fashion model and singer
24th of November 1985 BIRTHDAY Tony Hunt, American football player
24th of November 1986 BIRTHDAY Mohamed Massaquoi, American football player
24th of November 1986 BIRTHDAY Pedro Leon, Spanish footballer
24th of November 0654 DEATH Emperor Kotoku of Japan (Born 596)
24th of November 1468 DEATH Jean de Dunois, French soldier (Born 1402)
24th of November 1531 DEATH Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (Born 1482)
24th of November 1541 DEATH Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (Born 1489)
24th of November 1572 DEATH John Knox, Scottish reformer (Born 1510)
24th of November 1583 DEATH Rene de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (Born 1506)
24th of November 1615 DEATH Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (Born 1556)
24th of November 1650 DEATH Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (Born 1566)
24th of November 1722 DEATH Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (Born 1623)
24th of November 1741 DEATH Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (Born 1688)
24th of November 1770 DEATH Charles-Jean-Francois Henault, French historian (Born 1685)
24th of November 1775 DEATH Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (Born 1703)
24th of November 1781 DEATH James Caldwell, American Revolution figure (Born 1734)
24th of November 1793 DEATH Clement Charles Francois de Laverdy, French statesman (Born 1723)
24th of November 1801 DEATH Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (Born 1725)
24th of November 1807 DEATH Joseph Brant, American Indian tribal leader (Born 1742)
24th of November 1848 DEATH William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1779)
24th of November 1870 DEATH Comte de Lautreamont, French writer (Born 1846)
24th of November 1885 DEATH Nicolas Avellaneda, Argentine president (Born 1837)
24th of November 1890 DEATH August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (Born 1816)
24th of November 1916 DEATH Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born gunsmith (Born 1840)
24th of November 1920 DEATH Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (Born 1854)
24th of November 1922 DEATH Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist (Born 1870)
24th of November 1929 DEATH Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France (Born 1841)
24th of November 1943 DEATH Doris Miller, American navy cook (Born 1919)
24th of November 1948 DEATH Anna Jarvis, American founder of Mother's Day (Born 1864)
24th of November 1956 DEATH Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (Born 1920)
24th of November 1957 DEATH Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (Born 1886)
24th of November 1958 DEATH Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British politician, Nobel laureate (Born 1864)
24th of November 1959 DEATH Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player (Born 1883)
24th of November 1960 DEATH Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (Born 1882)
24th of November 1961 DEATH Ruth Chatterton, American actress (Born 1893)
24th of November 1963 DEATH Marotrao Kannamwar, Indian politician
24th of November 1963 DEATH Lee Harvey Oswald, American accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (Born 1939)
24th of November 1965 DEATH Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (Born 1895)
24th of November 1967 DEATH Louis Fratto, American gangster (Born 1908)
24th of November 1968 DEATH d.a. levy, Cleveland poet (Born 1942)
24th of November 1973 DEATH John Neihardt, American writer (Born 1881)
24th of November 1980 DEATH George Raft, American actor (Born 1895)
24th of November 1980 DEATH Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (Born 1897)
24th of November 1985 DEATH Big Joe Turner, American singer (Born 1911)
24th of November 1987 DEATH Jehane Benoit, French Canadian culinary author (Born 1904)
24th of November 1990 DEATH Fred Shero, National Hockey League player and coach (Born 1925)
24th of November 1990 DEATH Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (Born 1934)
24th of November 1990 DEATH Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (Born 1896)
24th of November 1991 DEATH Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen) (Born 1946)
24th of November 1991 DEATH Eric Carr, American drummer (KISS) (Born 1950)
24th of November 1993 DEATH Albert Collins, American blues guitarist (Born 1932)
24th of November 1996 DEATH Sorley MacLean, British poet (Born 1911)
24th of November 1997 DEATH Monique Andree Serf, French singer (Born 1930)
24th of November 1999 DEATH Hilary Minster, British actor (Born 1944)
24th of November 2001 DEATH Melanie Thornton, American dance/pop singer (Born 1967)
24th of November 2002 DEATH John Rawls, political philosopher (Born 1921)
24th of November 2003 DEATH Floquet de Neu, Ecuato Guinean albino gorilla (Born 1964)
24th of November 2003 DEATH Warren Spahn, American baseball player (Born 1921)
24th of November 2004 DEATH Wong Jim, Hong Kong songwriter (Born 1940)
24th of November 2004 DEATH Arthur Hailey, British-born author (Born 1920)
24th of November 2005 DEATH Pat Morita, American actor (Born 1932)
24th of November 2006 DEATH Juice Leskinen, Finnish rock singer (Born 1950)
24th of November 2006 DEATH George W. S. Trow, American writer (Born 1943)
24th of November 2006 DEATH Zdenek Veselovsky, Czech zoologist (Born 1938)
24th of November 2007 DEATH Casey Calvert, American guitarist (Hawthorne Heights) (Born 1981)
24th of November 2008 DEATH Cecil H. Underwood, American politician (Born 1922)
24th of November 2008 DEATH Kenny MacLean, Scottish musician (Platinum Blonde) (Born 1956)
24th of November 2009 DEATH Samak Sundaravej, Thai politician (Born 1935)
24th of November 2009 DEATH Abe Pollin, American professional sports team owner (Born 1923)
24th of November 2009 DEATH Chan Hung Lit, Hong Kong actor (Born 1943)
24th of November 2010 DEATH Huang Hua, Chinese statesman (Born 1913)