November 24
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November 24 is the 328th day of the year (329th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 37 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Events [change]
- 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
- 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species.
- 1917 – Nine police officers and one civilian are killed when a bomb explodes at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin police headquarters building.
- 1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
- 1944 – World War II: – The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital is carried out by 88 American aircraft.
- 1947 – Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald is assassinated by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters.
- 1963 – Vietnam War: Newly sworn-in US President Lyndon B. Johnson says that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam both militarily and economically.
- 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.
- 1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper hijacks a plane and gets US$200,000 in ransom money. He jumps from the plane and is never seen again (this is the only unsolved skyjacking in history). His identity and fate both remain unknown to this day.
- 1974 – A 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," is found in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
- 1976 – Parts of Iran and the Soviet Union are struck by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake, killing around 5,000 people.
- 1980 – A National Park is created at the southern end of Lake Malawi.
- 1988 – Mystery Science Theater 3000 premieres.
- 1991 - Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen dies a day after announcing that he had AIDS. Kiss musician Eric Carr dies on the same day.
- 1992 – A China Southern Airlines plane crashes on an internal flight, killing all 141 people on board.
- 1995 – Estonia applies for EU membership.
- 2005 – Pubs in England and Wales, through new alcohol licensing laws, are given new 24-hour opening hours.
- 2007 – Kevin Rudd is elected Prime Minister of Australia, succeeding John Howard, who loses his own parliamentary seat in the election.
Births [change]
- 1394 – Charles, Duke of Orleans (d. 1465)
- 1632 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (died 1677)
- 1655 – King Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)
- 1713 – Laurence Sterne, English-Irish writer (d. 1768)
- 1724 – Maria Amalia of Savoy, Queen of Spain (d. 1760)
- 1784 – Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
- 1806 – William Webb Ellis, English clergyman and alleged inventor of Rugby (d. 1872)
- 1815 – Grace Darling, English heroine (d. 1842)
- 1826 – Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (d. 1890)
- 1849 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American author (d. 1945)
- 1864 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
- 1867 – Alfred Pampalon, Canadian priest (d. 1896)
- 1868 – Scott Joplin, American musician (d. 1917)
- 1869 – Antonio Oscar Carmona, Portuguese politician, 97th Prime Minister and 11th President (d. 1951)
- 1874 – Charles William Miller, Scottish-Brazilian footballer (d. 1953)
- 1877 – Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States (d. 1956)
- 1880 – King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia (d. 1953)
- 1888 – Dale Carnegie, American writer (d. 1955)
- 1896 – Lucky Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962)
- 1922 - Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and inventor (d. 2012)
- 1925 – William F. Buckley, Jr.. American author and political commentator (d. 2008)
- 1925 – Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist (d. 2011)
- 1926 – Tsung-Dao Li, Chinese-American physicist
- 1934 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (d. 1998)
- 1941 - Donald "Duck" Dunn, American musician (d. 2012)
- 1941 – Pete Best, Indian-born English drummer (The Beatles)
- 1942 – Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian and actor
- 1943 – Dave Bing, American basketball player and politician, 70th Mayor of Detroit
- 1944 – Bev Bevan, English rock drummer
- 1944 – Dan Glickman, American politician
- 1946 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989)
- 1947 – Dwight Schultz, American actor
- 1947 – Dave Sinclair, English musician
- 1955 – Clem Burke, American drummer (Blondie)
- 1955 – Einar Karason, Icelandic author
- 1955 – Ian Botham, English cricketer
- 1957 – Denise Crosby, American actress
- 1958 – Roy Aitken, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1960 – Armen Grigoryan, Russian-Armenian singer
- 1961 – Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist
- 1962 – John Squire, British guitarist (The Stone Roses)
- 1966 – Russell Watson, British singer
- 1968 – Bulent Korkmaz, Turkish footballer
- 1971 – Lola Glaudini, American actress
- 1976 – Stephanie zu Guttenberg, German noblewoman, married to Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
- 1976 – Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater
- 1977 – Colin Hanks, American actor
- 1978 – Katherine Heigl, American actress
- 1980 – Beth Pheonix, American wrestler
- 1983 – Dean Ashton, English footballer
- 1984 – Maria Riesch, German skier
Deaths [change]
- 1572 – John Knox, Scottish reformer (b. 1514)
- 1775 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (b. 1703)
- 1848 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779)
- 1885 – Nicolas Avellaneda, President of Argentina (b. 1837)
- 1922 – Sidney Sonnino, Italian politician (b. 1847)
- 1929 – Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France (b. 1841)
- 1948 – Anna Jarvis, American, founder of Mother's Day (b. 1864)
- 1957 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
- 1958 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British politician (b. 1864)
- 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
- 1965 – Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
- 1985 – Big Joe Turner, American singer (b. 1911)
- 1990 – Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (b. 1896)
- 1991 – Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen), of AIDS (b. 1946).
- 1991 – Eric Carr, American drummer (Kiss) (b. 1950).
- 1998 – John Chadwick, British philologist (b. 1920)
- 2002 – John Rawls, American philosopher (b. 1921)
- 2005 – Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
- 2009 – Samak Sundaravej, Thai politician (b. 1935)
- 2010 – Huang Hua, Chinese politician (b. 1913)
- 2012 - Hector Camacho, Puerto Rican boxer (b. 1962)
