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 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 37 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 11, 2023 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,346,400 minutes 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 78 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 3,990 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 24 Historical Events
- 1227 –Polish Prince Leszek I the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa.
- 1850 –Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
- 1922 –Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
- 1943 –World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
- 1950 –The “Storm of the Century”, a violent snowstorm, takes shape on this date before paralyzing the northeastern United States and the Appalachians the next day, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia, records 57 inches of snow. 353 people would die as a result of the storm.
- 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.
- 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 –Assassination of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador.
- 1992 –A China Southern Airlines domestic flight in the People’s Republic of China, crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
Who were born on November 24?
- 1615 –Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1690)
- 1859 –Cass Gilbert, American architect (d. 1934)
- 1925 –William F. Buckley Jr., American writer (d. 2008)
- 1940 –Eric Wilson, Canadian children’s author.
- 1944 –Dan Glickman, American political, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas and the 26th United States Secretary of Agriculture
- 1944 –Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian scholar
- 1948 –Steve Yeager, baseball player
- 1960 –Amanda Wyss, American actress
- 1967 –Cal Eldred, American baseball player
- 1978 –Katherine Heigl, American actress
Who died on November 24?
- 1468 –Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402)
- 1572 –John Knox, Scottish reformer (b. 1510)
- 1770 –Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (b. 1685)
- 1929 –Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France (b. 1841)
- 1959 –Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player (b. 1883)
- 1960 –Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)
- 1980 –Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador (b. 1917)
- 1987 –Jehane Benoît, French Canadian culinary author (b. 1904)
- 2006 –George W. S. Trow, American writer (b. 1943)
- 2006 –Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist (b. 1938)
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