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. [edit] Events - 380 – Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
- 1190 – Isabella of Jerusalem marries Conrad of Montferrat at Acre, making him de jure King.
- 1429 – Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieged La Charité.
- 1639 – Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus, an event he had predicted.
- 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
- 1850 – Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
- 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
- 1863 – 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.
- 1898 – The International Conference of Rome for the Social Defense Against Anarchists opens.
- 1906 – The Canton Bulldogs-Massillon Tigers Betting Scandal, the first major scandal in professional American football.
- 1922 – Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
- 1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
- 1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
- 1940 – World War II: Slovakia becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
- 1941 – World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
- 1943 – World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks with nearly 650 men killed.
- 1944 – 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.
- 1962 – The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
- 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald is fatally shot by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. The shooting is broadcast live on television.
- 1963 – 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.
- 1965 – Joseph Désiré 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.
- 1966 – A Bulgarian plane with 82 people on board crashes near Bratislava, Slovakia.
- 1966 – New York City experiences the smoggiest day in the city's history.
- 1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
- 1971 – 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 – neither he nor the money have ever been found.
- 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.
- 1992 – A China Southern Airlines domestic flight in the People's Republic of China, 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.
- 2004 – Male Poʻo-uli dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
- 2007 – Australians elect the centre-left Australian Labor Party at the federal election.
[edit] Births - 1273 – Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (d. 1284)
- 1394 – Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (d. 1465)
- 1420 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (d. 1473)
- 1583 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (d. 1641)
- 1615 – Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1690)
- 1630 – Etienne Baluze, French scholar (d. 1718)
- 1632 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (d. 1677)
- 1655 – Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)
- 1690 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1750)
- 1713 – Junipero Serra, Spanish missionary (d. 1784)
- 1713 – Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist (d. 1768)
- 1724 – Maria Amalia of Saxony, queen of Spain (d. 1760)
- 1729 – Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (d. 1800)
- 1745 – Maria Louisa of Spain, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1792)
- 1774 – Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (d. 1857)
- 1784 – Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
- 1787 – Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist (d. 1863)
- 1801 – Ludwig Bechstein, German poet (d. 1860)
- 1806 – William Webb Ellis, credited with the invention of Rugby (d. 1872)
- 1811 – Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1890)
- 1815 – Grace Darling, English heroine (d. 1842)
- 1826 – Carlo Collodi, Italian author (d. 1890)
- 1833 – Antoine Labelle, Quebec catholic priest (d. 1891)
- 1849 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, British-born author (d. 1924)
- 1853 – Bat Masterson, American gunfighter (d. 1921)
- 1859 – Cass Gilbert, American architect (d. 1934)
- 1864 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
- 1868 – Scott Joplin, Ragtime Composer (d. 1917)
- 1869 – António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (d. 1951)
- 1873 – Julius Martov, Russian communiust leader (d. 1923)
- 1874 – Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer (d. 1953)
- 1876 – Walter Burley Griffin, American architect (d. 1937)
- 1877 – Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States (d. 1956)
- 1877 – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian CID Commissioner of Police (d. 1941)
- 1881 – Al Christie, Canadian-born film director and producer (d. 1951)
- 1884 – Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (d. 1963)
- 1885 – Christian Wirth, commandant of Belzec extermination camp (d. 1944)
- 1886 – Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher (d. 1973)
- 1887 – Erich von Manstein, German military commander (d. 1973)
- 1888 – Dale Carnegie, American writer (d. 1955)
- 1888 – Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist (d. 1972)
- 1893 – Charles F. Hurley, 54th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)
- 1894 – Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (d. 1978)
- 1897 – Lucky Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962)
- 1899 – Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (d. 1966)
- 1908 – Libertad Lamarque, Argentine actress and singer (d. 2000)
- 1910 – Larry Siemering, American college football head coach (d. 2009)
- 1911 – Joe Medwick, baseball player (d. 1975)
- 1911 – Kirby Grant, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1912 – Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (d. 1993)
- 1912 – Garson Kanin, American writer (d. 1999)
- 1912 – Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (d. 1986)
- 1913 – Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (d. 2005)
- 1916 – Forrest J. Ackerman, American writer (d. 2008)
- 1916 – Irwin Allen, American film producer (d. 1991)
- 1917 – Howard Duff, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1919 – David Kossoff, British actor (d. 2005)
- 1921 – John Lindsay, American politician (d. 2000)
- 1924 – Victor Grinich, Croatian-American businessman (d. 2000)
- 1925 – William F. Buckley Jr., American writer (d. 2008)
- 1925 – Simon van der Meer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1926 – Tsung-Dao Lee, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1927 – Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (d. 2003)
- 1930 – Bob Friend, baseball player
- 1934 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (d. 1998)
- 1935 – Ronald Vernie Dellums, U.S. Representative from California
- 1938 – Charles Starkweather, American Spree Killer (d. 1959)
- 1938 – Oscar Robertson, American basketball player
- 1938 – Willy Claes, Belgian politician
- 1940 – Paul Tagliabue, retired commissioner of the National Football League
- 1940 – Don Metz, American architect
- 1940 – Eric Wilson, Canadian children's author.
- 1941 – Pete Best, British musician
- 1941 – Donald "Duck" Dunn, American musician (Booker T. and the M.G.'s)
- 1942 – Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian
- 1942 – Marlin Fitzwater, White House Press Secretary
- 1943 – Dave Bing, American basketball player
- 1943 – Robin Williamson, Scottish musician
- 1944 – Bev Bevan, English rock drummer (The Move, Electric Light Orchestra)
- 1944 – Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian scholar
- 1944 – Dan Glickman, American political figure
- 1945 – Lee Michaels, American musician and singer
- 1946 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989)
- 1946 – Penelope Jones Halsall (aka Caroline Courtney, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright, Annie Groves, Penny Jordan), English novelist
- 1947 – Dave Sinclair, English musician (Caravan, Hatfield and the North)
- 1947 – Dwight Schultz, American actor
- 1948 – Spider Robinson, science fiction author
- 1948 – Steve Yeager, baseball player
- 1949 – Shane Bourne, Australian comedian and actor
- 1949 – Linda Tripp, American political figure
- 1951 – Mimis Androulakis, Greek politician and writer
- 1951 – Chet Edwards, American politician
- 1952 – Norbert Haug, German motorsport executive (Mercedes Benz)
- 1952 – Thierry Lhermitte, French comedian and actor
- 1953 – Glenn Withrow, American actor
- 1954 – Emir Kusturica, Serbian filmmaker
- 1955 – Ian Botham, England test cricketer
- 1955 – Clem Burke, American drummer (Blondie)
- 1955 – Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer
- 1955 – Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Swedish politician
- 1957 – Denise Crosby, American actress
- 1957 – Edward Stourton, British radio presenter
- 1958 – Roy Aitken, Scottish former footballer
- 1958 – Alain Chabat, French actor and director
- 1960 – Amanda Wyss, American actress
- 1960 – Edgar Meyer, American bassist and composer
- 1961 – Carlos Carnero, Spanish member of parliament
- 1961 – Arundhati Roy, Indian writer
- 1962 – John Squire, British guitarist (The Stone Roses)
- 1962 – John Kovalic, British-born cartoonist
- 1964 – Garret Dillahunt, American actor
- 1964 – Brad Sherwood, American comedian
- 1964 – Tony Rombola, American guitarist (Godsmack)
- 1965 – Kim Roe-ha, South Korean actor
- 1965 – Shirley Henderson, Scottish actress
- 1966 – Russell Watson, British singer
- 1967 – Cal Eldred, American baseball player
- 1968 – Bülent Korkmaz, Turkish footballer
- 1968 – Todd Beamer, American, acclaimed hero of United Airlines Flight 93 (d. 2001)
- 1969 – Rob Nicholson, American musician
- 1969 – David Adeang, Nauruan politician
- 1970 – Julieta Venegas, Mexican singer
- 1970 – Ashley Ward, British footballer
- 1970 – Doug Brien, American football player
- 1971 – Cosmas Ndeti, three-time Boston Marathon winner
- 1971 – Keith Primeau, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974 – Stephen Merchant, British comedian
- 1974 – Taro Yamamoto, Japanese actor
- 1974 – Machel Montano, Trinidad & Tobago musician
- 1975 – Thomas Kohnstamm, American writer
- 1976 – Dave Aizer, American television host
- 1976 – Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater
- 1976 – Christian Laflamme, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977 – Colin Hanks, American actor
- 1978 – Katherine Heigl, American actress
- 1980 – Beth Phoenix, American professional wrestler
- 1982 – Sean O'Loughlin, English rugby league footballer
- 1983 – Dean Ashton, English footballer
- 1983 – Meredith Henderson, Canadian actress
- 1983 – Karine Vanasse, Canadian actress
- 1985 – Julia Alexandratou, Greek fashion model and singer
- 1985 – Koo Hye Sun, South Korean actress
- 1985 – Tony Hunt, Football player
- 1989 – Johnny Exantus, Haitian footballer
[edit] Deaths - 654 – Emperor Kōtoku of Japan (b. 596)
- 1468 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402)
- 1531 – Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (b. 1482)
- 1541 – Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (b. 1489)
- 1572 – John Knox, Scottish reformer (b. 1510)
- 1583 – René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506)
- 1615 – Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (b. 1556)
- 1650 – Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (b. 1566)
- 1722 – Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (b. 1623)
- 1741 – Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (b. 1688)
- 1770 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (b. 1685)
- 1775 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (b. 1703)
- 1781 – James Caldwell, American revolutionary (b. 1734)
- 1793 – Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French statesman (b. 1723)
- 1801 – Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)
- 1807 – Joseph Brant, Mohawk leader (b. 1742)
- 1848 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779)
- 1870 – Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (b. 1846)
- 1890 – August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (b. 1816)
- 1916 – Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born gunsmith (b. 1840)
- 1920 – Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (b. 1854)
- 1922 – Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist (executed) (b. 1870)
- 1929 – Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France (b. 1841)
- 1943 – Doris Miller, American navy cook (b. 1919)
- 1956 – Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b. 1920)
- 1957 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
- 1958 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British politician, Nobel laureate (b. 1864)
- 1959 – Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player (b. 1883)
- 1960 – Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)
- 1961 – Ruth Chatterton, American actress (b. 1893)
- 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
- 1965 – Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
- 1967 – Louis Fratto, American gangster (b. 1908)
- 1973 – John Neihardt, American writer (b. 1881)
- 1980 – George Raft, American actor (b. 1895)
- 1980 – Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (b. 1897)
- 1985 – Big Joe Turner, American singer (b. 1911)
- 1987 – Jehane Benoît, French Canadian culinary author (b. 1904)
- 1990 – Fred Shero, National Hockey League player and coach (b. 1925)
- 1990 – Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (b. 1896)
- 1990 – Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
- 1991 – Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen) (b. 1946)
- 1991 – Eric Carr, American drummer (KISS) (b. 1950)
- 1993 – Albert Collins, American blues guitarist (b. 1932)
- 1996 – Sorley MacLean, British poet (b. 1911)
- 1999 – Hilary Minster, British Actor, Best known for his part as the General in 'Allo 'Allo (b. 1944)
- 2001 – Melanie Thornton, American dance/pop singer (b. 1967)
- 2002 – John Rawls, political philosopher (b. 1921)
- 2003 – Floquet de Neu, Ecuato Guinean albino gorilla (b. 1964)
- 2003 – Warren Spahn, Major League Baseball player (b. 1921)
- 2004 – Wong Jim, Hong Kong songwriter (b. 1940)
- 2004 – Arthur Hailey, British-born author (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
- 2006 – Juice Leskinen, Finnish rock singer (b. 1950)
- 2006 – George W. S. Trow, American writer (b. 1943)
- 2006 – Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist (b. 1938)
- 2008 – Cecil H. Underwood, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1922)
- 2008 – Kenny MacLean, Scottish musician (Platinum Blonde) (b. 1956)
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