What are the important events that happened on November 24? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 24: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 24 is the 328th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 37 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 11, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,763,942,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectaicosaoctagon’ day.
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Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 85 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,721 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 24 Historical Events
- 380 –Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
- 1542 –Battle of Solway Moss: The English army defeats the Scots.
- 1941 –World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
- 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 –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.
- 1966 –Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
- 1969 –Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
- 1973 –A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasted only four months.
- 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.
Who were born on November 24?
- 1787 –Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist (d. 1863)
- 1877 –Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian CID Commissioner of Police (d. 1941)
- 1893 –Charles F. Hurley, 54th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)
- 1917 –Howard Duff, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1921 –John Lindsay, American politician (d. 2000)
- 1947 –Dave Sinclair, English musician (Caravan, Hatfield and the North)
- 1948 –Spider Robinson, science fiction author
- 1949 –Linda Tripp, American political figure
- 1962 –Ioannis Topalidis, Greek footballer
- 1983 –Lars Eckert, German rugby player
Who died on November 24?
- 1265 –Magnus Olafsson, King of Mann and the Isles
- 1650 –Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (b. 1566)
- 1722 –Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (b. 1623)
- 1807 –Joseph Brant, American Indian tribal leader (b. 1742)
- 1920 –Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (b. 1854)
- 1920 –Lado Aleksi-Meskhishvili, Georgian theatre actor and director (b. 1857)
- 1922 –Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist (b. 1870)
- 1973 –John Neihardt, American writer (b. 1881)
- 2006 –George W. S. Trow, American writer (b. 1943)
- 2008 –Cecil H. Underwood, American politician (b. 1922)
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