What happened this day in history November 24

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 329th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 37 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 11, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 481,224 hours 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 ‘trihectaicosaenneagon’ day.

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 66 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 4,356 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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November 24 Historical Events

  • 1542
    Battle of Solway Moss: The English army defeats the Scots.
  • 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.
  • 1922
    Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
  • 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.
  • 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 murdered by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. The shooting happens to be broadcast live on television.
  • 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.
  • 1980
    Assassination of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador.

Who were born on November 24?

  • 1690
    Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1750)
  • 1884
    Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (d. 1963)
  • 1911
    Kirby Grant, American actor (d. 1985)
  • 1912
    Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (d. 1986)
  • 1921
    John Lindsay, American politician (d. 2000)
  • 1947
    Dave Sinclair, English musician (Caravan, Hatfield and the North)
  • 1955
    Clem Burke, American drummer (Blondie)
  • 1967
    Henrik Brockmann, Danish heavy metal singer
  • 1970
    Ashley Ward, British footballer
  • 1975
    Thomas Kohnstamm, American writer

Who died on November 24?

  • 1072
    King Bagrat IV of Georgia (b. 1018)
  • 1916
    Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born gunsmith (b. 1840)
  • 1922
    Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist (b. 1870)
  • 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)
  • 1991
    Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen) (b. 1946)
  • 1997
    Monique Andrée Serf, French singer (b. 1930)
  • 1999
    Hilary Minster, British actor (b. 1944)
  • 2004
    Wong Jim, Hong Kong songwriter (b. 1940)
  • 2006
    Juice Leskinen, Finnish rock singer (b. 1950)

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