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This day in history: 24 November

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407 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 24 November.
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2023: Hibiscus Rising, commemorating David Oluwale, is unveiled in Leeds.

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: November 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Events

2023Hibiscus Rising, commemorating David Oluwale, is unveiled in Leeds.

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.

2017A terrorist attack on a Mosque in Al-Rawda, North Sinai, Egypt kills 311 people and injures 128.

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.

2015An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.

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.

2015A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others.

2013Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.

2012A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.

2009The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, is founded in Bucharest, Romania.

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.

1992China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashes on approach to Guilin Qifengling Airport in Guilin, China, killing all 141 people on board.

1991Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches on STS-44.

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 Czech

1976The Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.

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.

1973A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.

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.

1969Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to land on the Moon.

1966Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.

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.

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.

1962Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.

1962The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.

1944World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.

1943World War II: At the battle of Makin the USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.

1941World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces.

1940World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.

1935The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.

1932In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.

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.

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.

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.

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 f

1877Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.

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.

1859British naturalist Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is published.

1850Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.

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).

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.

Born on this day

1998Jeremy Swayman, American ice hockey player

1995Marcus Bontempelli, Australian footballer

1994Nabil Bentaleb, Algerian footballer

1993Ivi Adamou, Cypriot-Greek singer-songwriter

1993Joe Pigott, English footballer

1992Sergei Kulbach, Ukrainian figure skater (died 2023)

1990Mario Gaspar, Spanish footballer

1990Michael Oldfield, Australian rugby league player

1990Sarah Hyland, American actress

1990Tom Odell, English singer-songwriter

1988Jarrod Parker, American baseball player

1986Asim Chaudhry, British comedian and actor

1986Jimmy Graham, American football player

1986Pedro León, Spanish footballer

1985Julia Alexandratou, Greek model, actress, and singer

1984David Booth, American ice hockey player

1984Maria Höfl-Riesch, German skier

1983André Laurito, German footballer

1983Dean Ashton, English footballer

1983Gwilym Lee, Welsh actor

1983José López, Venezuelan baseball player

1983Karine Vanasse, Canadian actress and producer

1983Lars Eckert, German rugby player

1983Shavlik Randolph, American basketball player

1982Ryan Fitzpatrick, American football player

1982Sean O'Loughlin, English rugby player

1980Beth Phoenix, American wrestler

1980Brandon Hunter, American basketball player (died 2023)

1980Branko Radivojevič, Slovak ice hockey player

1980Kabir Ali, English cricketer

1979Carmelita Jeter, American sprinter "fastest woman alive".

1979Horacio Ramírez, Mexican-American baseball player

1979Joseba Llorente, Spanish footballer

1978Katherine Heigl, American actress and producer

1977Celaleddin Koçak, German-Turkish footballer

1977Colin Hanks, American actor

1976Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater

1976Christian Laflamme, Canadian ice hockey player

1976Mona Hanna-Attisha, British-American pediatrician, professor, and public health advocate

1975Thomas Kohnstamm, American author

Died on this day

2025Dharmendra, Indian actor (born 1935)

2025Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican Hall of Fame reggae singer-songwriter (born 1944)

2024Barbara Taylor Bradford, British novelist (born 1933)

2024Breyten Breytenbach, South African-French poet and painter (born 1939)

2024Helen Gallagher, American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1926)

2022Börje Salming, Swedish hockey player (born 1951)

2019Goo Hara, South Korean singer and actress (born 1991)

2016Florence Henderson, American actress, singer and television personality (born 1934)

2016Paul Futcher, English footballer (born 1956)

2015Douglas W. Shorenstein, American businessman (born 1955)

2015Heinz Oberhummer, Austrian physicist, astronomer, and academic (born 1941)

2015John Forrester, English historian and philosopher (born 1949)

2015Quincy Monk, American football player (born 1979)

2015Robert Ford, English general (born 1923)

2014Jorge Herrera Delgado, Mexican engineer and politician (born 1961)

2014Murli Deora, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Corporate Affairs (born 1937)

2014Nenad Manojlović, Serbian water polo player and manager (born 1957)

2014Peter Henderson, New Zealand rugby player (born 1926)

2014Viktor Tikhonov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (born 1930)

2013Arnaud Coyot, French cyclist (born 1980)

2013Jean King, American politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii (born 1925)

2013June Keithley, Filipino actress and journalist (born 1947)

2013Lou Hyndman, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1935)

2013Matthew Bucksbaum, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded General Growth Properties (born 1926)

2013Matti Ranin, Finnish actor (born 1926)

2013Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown, English banker and politician, Governor of the Bank of England (born 1927)

2012Antoine Kohn, Luxembourgian footballer and manager (born 1933)

2012Ernie Warlick, American football player and sportscaster (born 1932)

2012Héctor Camacho, Puerto Rican-American boxer (born 1962)

2012Jimmy Stewart, American baseball player and manager (born 1939)

Quote of the day

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body.”

Seneca

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