24th
November, on this day
380 Theodosius
I makes his adventus,
or formal entry, into Constantinople
496 Anastasius
II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
642 Theodore
I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1190
Isabella of Jerusalem marries Conrad
of Montferrat at Acre, making him de jure King
1542 Battle
of Solway Moss : decisive English victory agianst the Scots
1639 1st observation of transit
of Venus occurred (only 2, record event)
1642 Abel
Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
1643 Battle
of Tuttlingen : French forces led by Marshal Josias Rantzau battle
with the armies of the Holy Roman Empire led by Franz von Mercy
1703 1st Lutheran pastor ordained in America, Justus
Falckner at Philadelphia
1759 Destructive eruption of Vesuvius
1850 Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holsteinian force in the Schleswig-Holsteinian
town of Lottorf
1859 Charles
Darwin publishes "On
the Origin of Species"
1863 Civil War battle for Lookout
Mountain began in Tennessee
1864 Battle
of Columbia : part of the Franklin-Nashville
Campaign of the American Civil War
1871 National
Rifle Association formed (NYC)
1874 Joseph
F Glidden patents barbed wire
1898 The
International Conference of Rome for the Social Defense Against Anarchists
opens
1903 Clyde Coleman of NYC patents automobile electric starter
1917 Nine police officers and one civilian are killed when a bomb
explodes at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin police headquarters building.
1922 Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert
Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad
for illegally carrying a revolver.
1930 1st woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth
Nichols (Mineola, NY to CA), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days
1932 In Washington, D.C., the FBI
Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI
Crime Lab) officially opens
1940 Slovakia becomes a signatory of the Tripartite
Pact, officially joining the Axis
Powers
1941 HMS
Dunedin is torpedoed and sunk
1941 The United States grants Lend-Lease
to the Free
French
1943 The USS
Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks with nearly 650
men killed
1944 Bombing
of Tokyo :The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital
from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft
1944 Battle
of Guilin–Liuzhou : decisive Japanese victory
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
1949 Britain nationalises its steel and iron industry
1954 1st US Presidential airplane christened
1958 Mali
becomes an autonomous state within French Community
1962 In Britain, the first broadcast of the satirical TV programme
"That
Was The Week That Was" introduced by David
Frost
1963 1st live murder on TV - Jack
Ruby assassinates Lee
Harvey Oswald
1963 Newly sworn-in US President Lyndon
B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue
supporting South Vietnam both militarily and economically.1964 Rebellion
ends in Zaire
1965 British Government imposes an experimental 70 mph speed limit
on motorways
1965 Joseph
Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Congo and becomes
President; he goes on to rule the country (which he renames Zaire
in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997
1966 A Bulgarian plane with 82 people on board crashes near Bratislava,
Slovakia
1966 1st TV station in Congo, Kinshasa (Za‹re)
1966 400 die of respiratory failure and heart attack in killer NYC
smog - the smoggiest day in the city's history
1969 Apollo
12 returns to Earth
1971 Dan
"DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with
$200,000
1971 Prison rebellion at Rahway
State Prison, NJ
1972 One of the eight 1933 pennies minted in Britain is auctioned
at Sotherbys for £7,000
1974 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.
1980 Ronald
Reagan Jr marries Doria Palmieri
1983 PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians and
Lebanese
1989 Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
1989 Czech politician Alexander
Dubcek makes his first public appearance for more than 20 years
to address a pro-democracy rally in Prague
1991 Freddie
Mercury, Lead singer of rock band Queen dies
1992 In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines
domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
1993 In Liverpool, 11-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are
convicted of the murder of 2-year-old James
Bulger
1993 The last 14 bottles of Scotch whisky, salvaged from the wreak
of the SS
Politician which sank in 1941, are sold at auction for £11,500.
The episode was the inspiration for the film 'Whisky
Galore'
1998 America
Online announces it will acquire Netscape Communications in a
stock-for-stock transaction worth US$4.2 billion
2004 Male Po'ouli
dies of Avian
malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii
before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
2006 Israeli rapist
Benny Sela escapes from police custody while being transferred
to a court hearing.
2007 Australians elect the Kevin
Rudd-led centre-left Australian Labor Party, ending the eleven-year
tenure of the Howard Government, a centre-right Liberal/National coalition
led by John
Howard
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Birthdates which
occurred on November 24th:
1632 Benedict de
"Baruch" Spinoza Amsterdam, rationalist philosopher
1713 Father Junipero Serra had a mission in California
1713 Laurence Sterne Ireland, novelist/satirist (Tristram Shandy)
1784 Zachary Taylor (Whig) 12th President (Mar 5,1849-July 9,1850)
1849 Frances Hodgson Burnett author of children's book (My Secret
Garden)
1864 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec France, painter (At the Moulin Rouge)
1868 Scott Joplin US, entertainer/composer (The Entertainer)
1876 Walter Griffin US architect, city planner; designed Canberra,
Austria
1877 Alben W Barkley Graves County KY, (35th Vice President-D-1949-53)
1888 Cathleen Nesbitt Belfast Ireland, actress (Agatha-Farmer's Daughter)
1888 Dale Carnegie author (How to Win Friends & Influence People)
1889 Albert J Sylvester England, ballroom dancer (Alex Moor Award-1977)
19-- Carol Mayo Jenkins Knoxville TN, actress (Fame)
19-- M.P. Carter actor (George Carroll-Guns of Paradise)
1905 Irene Wicker singer/actress (Singing Lady)
1908 Libertad Lamaraque Agentina, actress (Madreselva, Puerta Cerrada)
1908 Ray Carter Chicago IL, orchestra leader (Arthur Murray Dance
Party)
1911 Kirby Grant Butte MT, actor (Sky King)
1912 Garson Kanin American playwright/producer (Double Life)
1912 Geraldine Fitzgerald Dublin Ire, actress (Pawnbroker, Easy Money)
1917 Howard Duff Bremerton Wash, actor (Flamingo Road, Knots Landing)
1918 Tom "Stubby" Fouts Carroll County IN, actor (Polka-go-round)
1921 John V Lindsay (Mayor-R/D-NY, 1965-73)
1925 William F Buckley Jr right-wing curmudgeon (Firing Line)
1927 Alfredo Kraus Las Palmas Canary Islands, tenor (La Scala)
1929 Eileen Barton Brooklyn, singer (Broadway Open House)
1930 Dante Lavelli AAFC/NFL end (Cleveland Browns)
1932 Katalin Juhasz-Nagy Hungary, foils (Olympic-gold-1964)
1934 Alfred Schnittke Russia, composer (St Florian)
1934 Martin Charnin Broadway lyricist (Annie, West Side Story)
1935 Ron Dellums Oakland CA, (Rep-D-CA)
1939 Yoshinobu Miyake Japan, featherweight (Olympic-gold-1964, 68)
1942 Billy Connolly Scotland, comedian/actor (Blue Money)
1942 Marlin Fitzwater press secretary (George Bush)
1944 Claudia Dreifus
1946 Ted Bundy Burlington VT, serial murderer
1947 Dwight Schultz Baltimore MD, actor (A-Team)
1948 Steve Yeager catcher (Los Angeles Dodger)
1950 Damon Evans Baltimore MD, actor (Lionel-The Jeffersons)
1950 Roscoe Born Topeka KS, actor (Mark-Paper Dolls)
1951 Gaby Landhage Goteborg Sweden, model (Model of the Rear)
1956 Doug Davidson actor (Young & Restless)
1957 Denise Crosby Hollywood CA, actress (Tasha-Star Trek: Next Gen)
1958 Carmel (McCourt) England, rocker (Storm, More More More)
196- Dana Tyler newscaster (WCBS-TV NYC)
1962 Lesa Ann Pedriana Milwaukee WI, playmate (April, 1984)
1963 Lisa Howard actress (Days of Our Life, Rolling Vengeance)
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Deaths which occurred on November 24th:
1572 John Knox Scottish preacher, dies
1959 Dr Lyman Bryson educator (UN Casebook), dies at 71
1962 James J Kilroy tank inspector (Kilroy was here), dies at 60
1963 Lee Harvey Oswald JFK's assassinator shot dead by Jack Ruby
1974 Charles Quinlivan actor (Frank-Mr Garland), dies at 50
1980 George Raft NYC, actor, dies at 85
1991 Eric Carr musician (Kiss-Beth), dies at 41
1991 Freddie Mercury,
lead singer of rock group Queen, dies of AIDS aged 45
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