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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