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What happened on November 24
On November 24 history recorded 51 notable events. 160 people who left a mark were born on this day, and 115 died. Here is the full almanac.
- 51events
- 160births
- 115deaths
- 19observances
Highlights
Highlights
1221
Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire: Genghis Khan defeated the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus.
Between 1219 and 1221, the Mongol forces under Genghis Khan invaded the lands of the Khwarazmian Empire in Central Asia. The campaign, which followed the annexation of the Qara Khitai Khanate, saw widespread devastation and atrocities. The invasion marked the
1542Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces captured about 1,200 Scots at the Battle of Solway Moss.
The Anglo-Scottish Wars comprise the various battles which continued to be fought between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland from the time of the Wars of Independence in the early 14th century through to the latter years of the 16th century.
1643Thirty Years' War: Holy Roman Empire, Bavarian and Spanish forces led by Franz von Mercy defeated the French army in Germany led by Marshal Josias von Rantzau at the Battle of Tuttlingen.
The Thirty Years' War, fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. An estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from the effects of battle, famine, or disease, with parts
November 24
On this day
IV century
- 380
380Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
IX century
XII century
XIII century
- 1221
1221Genghis Khan defeats the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus, completing the Mongol conquest of Central Asia. - 1227
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. - 1248
1248An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages.
XIV century
XV century
XVI century
XVII century
XVIII century
XIX century
- 1832
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. - 1835
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). - 1850
1850Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein. - 1859
1859British naturalist Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is published. - 1863
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. - 1877
1877Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
XX century
- 1906
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. - 1917
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. - 1922
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. - 1929
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. - 1932
1932In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens. - 1935
1935The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress. - 1940
1940World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers. - 1941
1941World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces. - 1943
1943World War II: At the battle of Makin the USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men. - 1944
1944World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands. - 1962
1962Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin. - 1962
1962The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast. - 1963
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. - 1965
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. - 1966
1966Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board. - 1969
1969Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to land on the Moon. - 1971
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. - 1973
1973A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months. - 1974
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. - 1976
1976The Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people. - 1989
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. - 1991
1991Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches on STS-44. - 1992
1992China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashes on approach to Guilin Qifengling Airport in Guilin, China, killing all 141 people on board.
XXI century
- 2001
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. - 2009
2009The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, is founded in Bucharest, Romania. - 2012
2012A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people. - 2013
2013Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions. - 2015
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. - 2015
2015A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others. - 2015
2015An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead. - 2016
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. - 2017
2017A terrorist attack on a Mosque in Al-Rawda, North Sinai, Egypt kills 311 people and injures 128. - 2022
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. - 2023
2023Hibiscus Rising, commemorating David Oluwale, is unveiled in Leeds.
Best known
Born on November 24
Best known
Died on November 24
1072Bagrat IV of Georgia
King of Georgia from 1027 to 1072
1227Leszek I the White
High Duke of Poland intermittently between 1194 and 1227
1326Hugh Despenser the Younger
English peer and favourite of Edward II (c.1287/1289–1326)
1426Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter
Duchess of Exeter
1468Jean de Dunois
15th-century French noble
1492Louis de Gruuthuse
Flemish courtier and bibliophile
Holidays and observances
- Christian feast days: Albert of Louvain
- Christian feast days: Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Pierre Dumoulin-Borie, and other Vietnamese Martyrs
- Christian feast days: Chrysogonus
- Christian feast days: Colmán of Cloyne
- Christian feast days: Eanflæd
- Christian feast days: Firmina
- Christian feast days: Flavian of Ricina
- Christian feast days: Flora and Maria
- Christian feast days: Jehu Jones (Lutheran)
- Christian feast days: Justus Falckner (Lutheran)
- Christian feast days: Kenan (Cianán)
- Christian feast days: Pierre Dumoulin-Borie
- Christian feast days: Protasius of Milan
- Christian feast days: Romanus of Blaye
Frequently asked questions
What happened on November 24?
51 documented historical events happened on November 24, from antiquity to the present day. The best known is this: Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire: Genghis Khan defeated the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus. On the same day, in another year: Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces captured about 1,200 Scots at the Battle of Solway Moss. On Almanaccolo every event is listed in chronological order, grouped by century, and links to the Wikipedia article it comes from, so you can always read further or check the source. Alongside the events you find who was born and who died on this date, and which observances are celebrated around the world.
Who was born on November 24?
160 people with a Wikipedia article were born on November 24, including Simon van der Meer, Tsung-Dao Lee, Alfredo Kraus. The list spans every era and every field — art, science, politics, sport, entertainment — ordered by year of birth, from the earliest to the most recent. The six featured people are those most has been written about: the ordering uses the length of their Wikipedia article as an indicator of prominence. For each one you find their occupation, year of birth and a link to the full biography.
Who died on November 24?
115 people with a Wikipedia article died on November 24, including Bagrat IV of Georgia, Leszek I the White, Hugh Despenser the Younger. The list is in chronological order by year of death and spans all of documented history, from antiquity to the present day. For each person you find their occupation, the year and a link to the Wikipedia biography, where the full story and its sources can be read.
What is celebrated on November 24?
19 observances are celebrated on November 24 around the world: Christian feast days: Albert of Louvain, Christian feast days: Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Pierre Dumoulin-Borie, and other Vietnamese Martyrs, Christian feast days: Chrysogonus, Christian feast days: Colmán of Cloyne, Christian feast days: Eanflæd, Christian feast days: Firmina. The list gathers national holidays, international days and religious or civil observances falling on this date in different countries, as recorded on Wikipedia. Some are fixed and recur on the same day every year; others depend on the local calendar. Each links to the article explaining its origin and meaning.
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