November 24......

November 24 is the 328th day of the year (329th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 37 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.

● 642 - Theodore succeeds John IV as Pope.

● 1190 - Isabella of Jerusalem marries Conrad of Montferrat at Acre, making him de jure King.

● 1615 - French King Louis XIII married Ann of Austria. They were both 14 years old.

● 1639 - Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus (November 24 in the Julian calendar, or December 4 in the Gregorian calendar).

● 1642 - Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).

● 1703 - In Philadelphia, German_born pastor and hymnwriter Justus Falckner, 31, became the first Lutheran clergyman to be ordained in America.

● 1713 - Birth of Father Junipero Serra, Spanish missionary to western America. From 1769, he established 9 of the first 21 Franciscan missions founded along the Pacific coast, and baptized some 6,000 Indians before his death in 1784.

● 1784 - Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States, was born in Orange County, Va.

● 1807 - Thayendanegea, aka Joseph Brant, died. Brant led Mohawk Indians who fought against the Americans in the Revolutionary War. He was buried at a church near present-day Brantford, Ontario, but in 1879 his body was stolen by a doctor and his medical students.

● 1838 - Canadian Sulpician missionary Franois Blanchet, 43, first arrived in the Oregon Territory. A native of Quebec, he spent 45 years planting churches in the American Northwest, and is remembered today as the "Apostle of Oregon."

● 1859 - Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, published "On the Origin of Species." It was the book in which he explained his theory of evolution through the process of natural selection. It is one of the most controversial, least read and understood books of all time.

● 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.

● 1869 - Woman's Suffrage Association organized.

● 1871 - The National Rifle Association was incorporated, and its first president named: Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside.

● 1874 - U.S. patent granted for barbed wire, perhaps the single most destructive development in the despoiling of western North America.

● 1874 - Birth of Frederick Libby, founder of National Council for the Prevention of War.

● 1880 - In Montgomery, AL, more than 150 delegates from Baptist churches in 11 states met to form the Baptist Foreign Missions Convention of the United States. Liberian missionary William W. Colley was chief organizer, and the Rev. William H. McAlpine was elected the first president.

● 1885 - Birth of labor activist and communist Anna Louise Strong, Seattle. Served on Seattle School Board, helped organize Seattle's 1919 general strike. Died in 1969 in Beijing, China.

● 1903 - Clyde J. Coleman received the patent for an electric self-starter for an automobile.

● 1904 - The first successful caterpillar track is made.

● 1919 - The Oscar Mayer Company reopens a meat-packing plant on the east side of Madison, Wisconsin. The plant had been operated by the Farmers' Cooperative Packing Company, which formed under a strongly worded state law encouraging cooperatives. Prior to the cooperative's opening two years ago, in 1917, Madison-area farmers had no choice but to sell their pigs and cattle to the Chicago beer trusts. Five thousand area farmers bought nearly $600,000 of stock in the new enterprise. The nation had only two other farm-owned cooperative packing plants, both in Wisconsin. But faced with mounting wages and operating losses, and no real prospect of new capital, the cooperative was forced to sell the plant to the Chicago firm, Oscar F. Mayer & Brother.

● 1920 - Last 33 conscientious objectors to World War I released from U.S. prisons.

● 1922 - Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.

● 1923 - Philippe Daudet, French anarchist, son of Leon Daudet (leader of "L'Action Française"), dies under mysterious circumstances.

● 1925 - Birth of William F. Buckley, Jr., New York City. First rose to prominence as a young apologist for "Tail Gunner" Joe McCarthy and his '50s witch hunts.

● 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.

● 1936 - Pacifist/anti-fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

● 1940 - Nazis closed off the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Over the next three years the population dropped from 350,000 to 70,000 due to starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps.

● 1941 - World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.

● 1941 - American Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote in his "Secular Journal": 'Spiritual dryness is an acute experience of longing therefore of love.'

● 1941 - Nazis establish Jewish ghetto at Thereseinstadt.

● 1943 - Max Baginski dies, New York. Social Democrat turned anarchist, condemned in 1891 to 2 1/2 years in German prison for "violation of the press laws." Exiled to the U.S., became publicity agent for Emma Goldman's newspaper, "Mother Earth," as well as many other papers.

● 1944 - World War II: Bombing of Tokyo - The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east was made by 88 land-based American aircraft.

● 1947 - Red Scare: After refusing to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of Communist influence in the movie industry, the United States House of Representatives votes 346 to 17 to approve citations of contempt of Congress against the so-called Hollywood 10. Chairman J. Parnell gets convicted in 1949 for "padding" his payrolls and pocketing the money.

● 1947 - John Steinbeck's novel "The Pearl" was published for the first time.

● 1947 - Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France

● 1947 - Twenty-two-month Chicago newspaper printers' anti-Taft-Hartley strike begins.

● 1950 - The musical ''Guys and Dolls,'' based on the writings of Damon Runyon and featuring songs by Frank Loesser, opened on Broadway.

● 1951 - The Broadway play Gigi opens with little-known actress Audrey Hepburn in the title role.

● 1953 - Sen. Joseph McCarthy (Psycho-WI) declares Truman Administration "crawling with communists."

● 1962 - The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.

● 1963 - Millions of TV watchers see Jack Ruby, the operator of a local striptease club, stick a revolver into Lee Harvey Oswald's side, and shoot him dead. First live TV killing.

● 1963 - Pres. Johnson, in office only two days, signs national security memorandum stating U.S. goal in Vietnam is helping the Saigon government to a military victory. In the last week of November 1963, Kennedy had planned (before his assassination) to withdraw 1000 of the 17,000 U.S. "advisors" in Vietnam, quietly open a dialogue with Castro's Cuba, and pursue detente with the U.S.S.R.

● 1965 - Joseph Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Congo and becomes President; he goes on to rule the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.

● 1966 - The single smoggiest day on record in New York City's history. Four hundred die of respiratory failures and heart attacks in the killer smog.

● 1969 - Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.

● 1969 - Lt. William L Calley, charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai, Vietnam, in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial.

● 1970 - Fourteen American students meet with Vietnamese in Hanoi to plan "Peoples' Peace Treaty."

● 1971 - A passenger registered as "D.B. Cooper" hijacks a plane from Portland, Ore. to Seattle, demands and gets $200,000 in cash, a parachute, and a trip back to Portland, and then jumps out of the plane en route (somewhere over southwestern Washington) with the ransom. Never found. Cooper, or the myth of him, became an instant folk hero.

● 1972 - U.S. Circuit Court rules that a Bureau of Indian Affairs 99-year lease of Tesuque Pueblo land to a housing developer outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, violates federal law.

● 1974 - Six charged over Birmingham pub bombs; Police charge six men in connection with the Birmingham pub bombings three days ago.

● 1976 - The Band gives its last public performance, documented by Martin Scorsese in the film The Last Waltz.

● 1979 - U.S. admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange.

● 1983 - Plowshares 7 activists damage cruise missile, Griffiths Air Force Base, near Syracuse, New York.

● 1983 - The Palestine Liberation Organization released six Israeli prisoners in exchange for the release of 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese held by the Israelis.

● 1985 - The hijacking of an Egyptair jetliner parked on the ground in Malta ended with 60 deaths when Egyptian commandos stormed the plane; two of the dead were shot by the hijackers.

● 1985 - A group of African American community activists seize and occupy the unused Colman School in Seattle's Central District, demanding the city use the property for an African American History & Heritage Museum. The occupation would last some 13 years before the original group of protesters is evicted and the city gives the property to a competing, more mainstream group, the Urban League, which pledges to use the school for a museum and for their new offices.

● 1986 - Fifteen activists, including renowned anti-war protester Abbie Hoffman, are arrested for occupying a Univ. of Massachusetts building as part of a protest against CIA recruitment on campus. Following a trial detailing CIA crimes, all were acquitted of charges. Amherst, Mass.

● 1987 - The U.S. and the Soviet Union agreed to scrap short- and medium-range missiles. It was the first superpower treaty to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons.

● 1989 - Czechoslovakia's hard-line party leadership resigned after more than a week of protests against its policies making way for democratic changes.

● 1990 - Six Marine reservists refuse to report for Persian Gulf duty.

● 1991 - Rock singer Freddie Mercury of Queen died at age 45 of pneumonia brought on by AIDS, just one day after he publicly announced he was HIV positive. Indiscriminate sex with parties of both sexes did not help.

● 1992 - In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.

● 1992 Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger pleaded innocent to making a false statement in the Iran-Contra affair.

● 1992 - After Philippine Senate refusal to renew contract for U.S. bases, U.S. armed forces formally withdraw from the Philippines. For a few years, anyway.

● 1993 - End of world, according to Ukrainian sect White Brotherhood. I felt fine. I did, however, lapse into a four-day coma the following morning.

● 1993 - In Gaza, Israeli troops kill Imad Aqal, the founder and commander of Izzedine el-Qassem and a legendary figure among Palestinians.

● 1993 - The U.S. Congress gave its final approval to the Brady handgun control bill.

● 1993 - Robert Thompson and Jon Venables (both 11 years old) were convicted of murdering 2-year-old James Bulger of Liverpool, England. They were both sentenced to "indefinite detention."

● 1995 - In Ireland, the voters narrowly approved a constitutional amendment legalizing divorce.

● 1996 - Rusty Wallace wins the Suzuka NASCAR Thunder 100 racing event at Suzuka Circuitland in Suzuka City (this was the first NASCAR competition held in Japan).

● 1996 - Barry Sanders (Detroit Lions) set an NFL record when he recorded his eighth straight 1,000-yard season.

● 1998 - Queen's speech spells end for peers; Under new proposals hereditary peers will lose their right to sit and vote in the UK Parliament's upper chamber.

● 1998 - America Online (AOL, Amateurs On Line) announces it will acquire Netscape Communications in a deal ultimately worth $10 billion. Netscape quickly loses functionality and usefulness.

● 2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider George W. Bush's appeal against the hand recounting of presidential ballots in Florida.

● 2000 - The PlayStation 2 is released in Europe, for around €449/£299.

● 2002 - Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off on mission STS-113, the final successful shuttle flight before the ill-fated STS-107 Columbia mission.

● 2003 - A jury in Virginia Beach, Va., sentenced John Allen Muhammad to death for the Washington-area sniper shootings.

● 2005 - The Licensing Act 2003 comes into force in England and Wales, introducing flexibility in the hours during which alcoholic beverages may be sold. Many pubs now open 24 hours featuring round-the-clock drinking.

● 2005 - Conservative leader Stephen Harper, the leader of the Official Opposition in the Canadian Parliament, introduced a motion of no confidence, which NDP leader Jack Layton seconded. The motion was passed on November 28 which led to the dissolution to the 38th Canadian Parliament.

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 (Benedict) 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-born English novelist (d. 1768)

● 1729 - Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (d. 1800)

● 1784 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (1849-50) (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)

● 1849 - Frances Hodgson Burnett, British-born author (d. 1924)

● 1853 - Bat Masterson, American gunfighter (d. 1921)

● 1859 - Cass Gilbert, American architect; designed the U.S. Supreme Court Building (d. 1934)

● 1864 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)

● 1868 - Scott Joplin, American ragtime composer (d. 1917)

● 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 under President Harry S. Truman (d. 1956)

● 1881 - Al Christie, Canadian-born film director and producer (d. 1951)

● 1884 - Itzhak Ben-Zvi, Second President of Israel (1952-63) (d. 1963)

● 1886 - Margaret Anderson, American founder and editor of The Little Review magazine (d. 1973)

● 1887 - Erich von Manstein, German military commander (d. 1973)

● 1888 - Dale Carnegie, American author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People," still selling copies even today (d. 1955)

● 1888 - Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist (d. 1972)

● 1894 - Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (d. 1978)

● 1895 - Ludvík Svoboda, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1979)

● 1897 - Lucky Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962)

● 1905 - Irwin Allen, American film producer (d. 1991)

● 1911 - Joe Medwick, baseball player (d. 1975)

● 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

● 1917 - Howard Duff, American actor

● 1921 - John Lindsay, American politician (d. 2000)

● 1924 - Victor Grinich, Croatian-American businessman (d. 2000)

● 1925 - William F. Buckley Jr., American writer and renowned Conservative

● 1925 - Simon van der Meer, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1926 - Tsung-Dao Lee, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1927 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (d. 2003)

● 1927 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)

● 1930 - Bob Friend, baseball player

● 1934 - Alfred Schnittke, German composer (d. 1998)

● 1935 - Ron Dellums, Former U.S. Rep., D-Calif.

● 1938 - Oscar Robertson, American basketball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1940 - Paul Tagliabue, commissioner of the National Football League

● 1940 - Don Metz, American architect

● 1940 - Johnny Carver, Country singer

● 1941 - Pete Best, British musician

● 1941 - Donald "Duck" Dunn, American musician, Booker T. and the M.G.'s

● 1942 - Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian and actor

● 1942 - Marlin Fitzwater, former White House Press Secretary

● 1943 - Dave Bing, American basketball player

● 1944 - Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian scholar

● 1944 - Dan Glickman, President of the Motion Picture Association of America

● 1945 - Lee Michaels, Rock singer

● 1946 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989)

● 1947 - Dwight Schultz, American actor

● 1948 - Steve Yeager, baseball player

● 1950 - Stanley Livingston, Actor (''My Three Sons'')

● 1951 - Chet Edwards, American politician

● 1955 - Ian Botham, England test cricketer

● 1955 - Clem Burke, Rock musician (Blondie)

● 1955 - Elvis Ramone, American drummer (The Ramones)

● 1955 - Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer

● 1956 - Terry Lewis, Record producer

● 1957 - Denise Crosby, American actress

● 1957 - Edward Stourton, British radio presenter

● 1960 - Amanda Wyss, American actress

● 1960 - Edgar Meyer, American bassist and composer

● 1962 - John Squire, British guitarist (The Stone Roses)

● 1962 - Gary Stonadge, Rock musician (Big Audio)

● 1963 - Shae D'Lyn, Actress

● 1964 - Brad Sherwood, American comedian

● 1966 - Russell Watson, British singer

● 1967 - Cal Eldred, baseball player

● 1968 - Bülent Korkmaz, Turkish footballer

● 1969 - Rob Nicholson, American musician

● 1970 - Chad Taylor, Rock musician (Live)

● 1971 - Lola Glaudini, Actress

● 1971 - Cosmas Ndeti, three time Boston Marathon winner.

● 1971 - Keith Primeau, Canadian hockey player

● 1974 - Stephen Merchant, British comedian

● 1976 - Lu Chen, Chinese figure skater

● 1976 - Dave Aizer, American Television Host

● 1977 - Colin Hanks, American actor

● 1978 - Katherine Heigl, American actress

● 1980 - Beth Phoenix, American professional wrestler

● 1983 - Dean Ashton, English footballer

DEATHS

● 654 - Emperor Kōtoku of Japan

● 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

● 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 - Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant), Mohawk leader(b. 1742)

● 1848 - Lord 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)

● 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 - Herbert Henry Messenger, Australian rugby league player (b. 1883)

● 1960 - Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)

● 1965 - Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)

● 1973 - John Neihardt, American writer (b. 1881)

● 1980 - George Raft, American actor (b. 1895)

● 1985 - Big Joe Turner, American singer (b. 1911)

● 1991 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen) (b. 1946)

● 1991 - Eric Carr, American drummer (KISS) (b. 1950)

● 1996 - Sorley MacLean, British poet (b. 1911)

● 2002 - John Rawls, Political philosopher (b. 1921)

● 2003 - Floquet de Neu, Ecuato Guinean albino gorilla (b. 1964)

● 2004 - Wong Jim, Hong Kong songwriter (b. 1940)

● 2004 - Arthur Hailey, British-born author (b. 1920)

● 2005 - Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic
● St. Colman of Cloyne
● St. Andrew Dun-Lac, martyr of Vietnam
● St. Chrysogonus
● St. Alexander
● St. Anthony Nam-Quynh
● St. Bieuzy
● St. Crescentian
● St. Eanfleda
● St. Firmina
● St. Flora & Mary
● St. Felicissimus
● St. Leopardinus
● St. Marinus
● St. Romanus of Le Mans
● Martyrs of the Dominican Order in Vietnam
● Martyrs of Vietnam:
● St. Peter Domoulin Bori
● St. Peter Khoa
● and St. Vincent Diem
● Bl. Thaddeus Lieu
● Bl. Lawrence PeMan

● Old Roman Catholic:
● Commemoration of St John of the Cross, confessor/doctor

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 11 (Civil Date: November 24)
● Martyrs Menas of Egypt, Victor at Damascus, and Vincent of Spain
● St. Theodore the confessor, abbot of the Studion
● Martyr Stephanida (Stephanis) of Spain.
● Repose of Blessed Maximus of Moscow.
● Repose of St. Stephen Dechani of Serbia.
● St. Martyrius, abbot of Zelensk (Pskov).
● St. Militsa, Princess of Serbia.
● St. Martin the Merciful, Bishop of Tours.

● Greek Calendar:
● Blessed Euthymius of Dechani.
● Blessed Nestor of Serbia.

● Roman festivals - in the Byzantine empire the Brumalia (a wine festival) were celebrated from this day until the winter solstice

● Cobh, Ireland: Feast Day of St. Colman of Cloyne

● Turkey: Teacher's Day

● Zaire : New Regime Anniversary

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week":
● Massachusetts: John F Kennedy Day (1963) ( Sunday )
● Bern Switzerland : Onion Market Day-autumn festival ( Monday )
● US : Thanksgiving ( Thursday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

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