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, 1,732,406,400 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 ‘trihectaicosaenneagon’ 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 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
- 1227 –Polish Prince Leszek I the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa.
- 1642 –Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen’s Land (later renamed Tasmania).
- 1932 –In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
- 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 –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.
- 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.
- 1966 –Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
- 1971 –During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
- 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?
- 1713 –Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist (d. 1768)
- 1888 –Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist (d. 1972)
- 1919 –David Kossoff, British actor (d. 2005)
- 1941 –Donald “Duck” Dunn, American musician (Booker T. and the M.G.'s)
- 1944 –Dan Glickman, American political, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas and the 26th United States Secretary of Agriculture
- 1948 –Steve Yeager, baseball player
- 1951 –Mimis Androulakis, Greek politician and writer
- 1976 –Christian Laflamme, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978 –Katherine Heigl, American actress
- 1983 –Meredith Henderson, Canadian actress
Who died on November 24?
- 1922 –Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist (b. 1870)
- 1943 –Doris Miller, American navy cook (b. 1919)
- 1957 –Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
- 1960 –Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)
- 1961 –Ruth Chatterton, American actress (b. 1893)
- 1987 –Jehane Benoît, French Canadian culinary author (b. 1904)
- 1990 –Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (b. 1896)
- 1990 –Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
- 1991 –Eric Carr, American drummer (KISS) (b. 1950)
- 2003 –Warren Spahn, American baseball player (b. 1921)
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