On this day in History - Nov. 24

• 0380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
• 0496 - Anastasius II is elected Pope succeeding Gelasius I.
• 0642 - Theodore succeeds John IV as Pope.
• 0654 - Emperor Kōtoku of Japan dies.
• 1190 - Isabella of Jerusalem marries Conrad of Montferrat at Acre, making him de jure King.
• 1273 - Alphonso, Earl of Chester was born (d. 1284). Son of Edward I of England.
• 1394 - Charles, Duke of Orléans was born (d. 1465). French poet.
• 1420 - John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire was born (d. 1473). English politician.
• 1468 - Jean de Dunois dies (b. 1402). French soldier.
• 1531 - Johannes Oecolampadius dies (b. 1482). German religious reformer.
• 1531 - The second Peace of Kappel brought an end to the Kappel Wars during the Swiss Reformation.
• 1541 - Margaret Tudor dies (b. 1489). Queen of James IV of Scotland.
• 1572 - John Knox dies. Scottish reformer.
• 1583 - René de Birague dies (b. 1506). French cardinal and chancellor.
• 1583 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar was born (d. 1641). Spanish poet.
• 1615 - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine was born (d. 1690).
• 1615 - Sethus Calvisius dies (b. 1556). German calendar reformer.
• 1630 - Etienne Baluze was born (d. 1718). French scholar.
• 1632 - Baruch Spinoza was born (d. 1677). Dutch philosopher.
• 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).
• 1650 - Manuel Cardoso dies (b. 1566). Portuguese composer.
• 1655 - King Charles XI of Sweden was born (d. 1697).
• 1690 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel was born (d. 1750). German composer.
• 1700 - Louis XIV of France proclaimed his grandson Philip to be king of Spain, beginning the War of the Spanish Succession.
• 1713 - Junipero Serra was born (d. 1784). Spanish missionary.
• 1713 - Laurence Sterne was born (d. 1768). Irish novelist.
• 1722 - Johann Adam Reinken dies (b. 1623). German organist.
• 1724 - Maria Amalia of Saxony was born (d. 1760). Queen of Spain.
• 1729 - Alexander Suvorov was born (d. 1800). Russian general.
• 1741 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden dies (b. 1688).
• 1745 - Maria Louisa of Spain was born (d. 1792). Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1770 - Charles-Jean-François Hénault dies (b. 1685). French historian.
• 1774 - Thomas Dick was born (d. 1857). Scottish scientific teacher and writer.
• 1775 - Lorenzo Ricci dies (b. 1703). Italian Jesuit leader.
• 1781 - James Caldwell dies (b. 1734). American revolutionary.
• 1784 - Zachary Taylor was born (d. 1850). 12th President of the United States.
• 1787 - Franz Xaver Gruber was born (d. 1863). Austrian organist and composer.
• 1793 - Clément Charles François de Laverdy dies (b. 1723). French statesman.
• 1801 - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy dies (1725). Austrian field marshal.
• 1801 - Ludwig Bechstein was born (d. 1860). German narrator and poet.
• 1806 - William Webb Ellis was born (d. 1872). Credited with the invention of Rugby.
• 1807 - Joseph Brant dies (b. 1742). Mohawk leader.
• 1811 - Ulrich Ochsenbein was born (d. 1890). Swiss Federal Councillor.
• 1815 - Grace Darling was born (d. 1842). English heroine.
• 1826 - Carlo Collodi was born (d. 1890). Italian author who was the creator of Pinocchio.
• 1832 - A special state convention in South Carolina adopted the Ordinance of Nullification, upholding the doctrine of nullification.
• 1833 - Antoine Labelle was born (d. 1891). Quebec catholic priest.
• 1848 - Lord Melbourne dies (b. 1779). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1849 - Frances Hodgson Burnett was born (d. 1924). British-born author.
• 1850 - Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holsteinian force in the Schleswig-Holsteinian town of Lottorf.
• 1853 - Bat Masterson was born (d. 1921). American gunfighter and policeman.
• 1859 - Cass Gilbert was born (d. 1934). American architect.
• 1859 - Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species.
• 1861 - Cruz e Sousa was born in Nossa Senhora do Desterro, now Florianópolis (d. 1898). Brazilian poet.
• 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.
• 1864 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born (d. 1901). French post-impressionist painter.
• 1868 - Scott Joplin was born (d. 1917). American composer and pianist known as the “king of ragtime” at the turn of the 20th century (Maple Leaf Rag; The Entertainer).
• 1869 - António Óscar Carmona Carmona was born. 11^th President of Portugal (1928 - 1951).
• 1870 - Comte de Lautréamont dies (b. 1846). French writer.
• 1873 - Julius Martov was born (d. 1923). Russian communist leader.
• 1874 - Charles Miller was born (d. 1953). Brazilian football player.
• 1874 - American inventor Joseph Farwell Glidden patented the first commercially successful barbed wire.
• 1876 - Walter Burley Griffin was born (d. 1937). American architect.
• 1877 - Alben W. Barkley was born (d. 1956). Vice President of the United States.
• 1877 - Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara wa born (d. 1941). Indian CID Commissioner of Police.
• 1881 - Al Christie was born (d. 1951). Film director and producer.
• 1884 - Itzhak Ben-Zvi was born (d. 1963). President of Israel.
• 1885 - Alfonso XII dies at 27. King of Spain (1875-85).
• 1886 - Margaret Caroline Anderson was born (d. 1973). American publisher.
• 1887 - Erich von Manstein was born in Berlin (d. 1973). German military commander.
• 1888 - Dale Carnegie was born (d. 1955). American public speaker and writer (How to Win Friends and Influence People).
• 1888 - Fredrick Willius was born (d. 1972). American cardiologist.
• 1890 - August Belmont, Sr. dies (b. 1816). Prussian-born financier.
• 1893 - Charles F. Hurley was born (d. 1946). 54^th Governor of Massachusetts.
• 1894 - Herbert Sutcliffe was born (d. 1978). England cricketer.
• 1895 - Ludvík Svoboda was born (d. 1979). President of Czechoslovakia.
• 1897 - Lucky Luciano was born (d. 1962). American gangster.
• 1898 - The International Conference of Rome for the Social Defense Against Anarchists opens.
• 1899 - Ward Morehouse was born (d. 1966). American theater critic and newspaper columnist.
• 1904 - The first successful caterpillar track is made.
• 1905 - Irving Allen was born (d. 1991). American film producer and director.
• 1906 - António Gedeão was born in Lisbon (d. 19 Fev 1997). Portuguese poet.
• 1908 - Libertad Lamarque was born (d. 2000). Argentine actress and singer.
• 1911 - Joe Medwick was born (d. 1975). Baseball player.
• 1911 - Kirby Grant was born (d. 1985). American actor.
• 1912 - Bernard Delfgaauw was born (d. 1993). Dutch philosopher.
• 1912 - Garson Kanin was born (d. 1999). American writer.
• 1912 - Teddy Wilson was born (d. 1986). American jazz pianist.
• 1913 - Geraldine Fitzgerald was born (d. 2005). Irish-born actress.
• 1916 - Forrest J. Ackerman was born. American writer and publisher.
• 1916 - Irwin Allen was born (d. 1991). American film producer.
• 1916 - Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim dies (b. 1840). American-born gunsmith, inventor of the Maxim.
• 1917 - Nine police officers and one civilian are killed when the Milwaukee, WI police headquarters building explodes due to a bomb.
• 1917 - Howard Duff was born. American actor.
• 1919 - David Kossoff was born (d. 2005). British actor.
• 1920 - Alexandru Macedonski dies (b. 1854). Romanian writer.
• 1921 - John Lindsay was born (d. 2000). American politician.
• 1922 - Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
• 1922 - Robert Erskine Childers dies executed (b. 1870). Irish author and nationalist
• 1924 - Victor Grinich was born (d. 2000). Croatian-American businessman.
• 1925 - William F. Buckley Jr. was born. American writer and political commentator.
• 1925 - Simon van der Meer was born. Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1926 - Tsung-Dao Lee was born. Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1927 - Ahmadou Kourouma was born (d. 2003). Ivorian writer.
• 1927 - Alfredo Kraus was born (d. 1999). Spanish tenor.
• 1929 - Georges Clemenceau dies (b. 1841). Premier of France.
• 1930 - Bob Friend was born. American baseball player.
• 1932 - In Washington, DC, the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
• 1934 - Alfred Schnittke was born (d. 1998). German composer.
• 1935 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
• 1935 - Ronald Vernie Dellums was born. U.S. Representative from California.
• 1938 - Charles Starkweather was born (d. 1959). American Spree Killer.
• 1938 - Oscar Robertson was born. American basketball player.
• 1938 - Willy Claes was born. Belgian politician.
• 1940 - World War II: Slovakia becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
• 1940 - Paul Tagliabue was born. Commissioner of the National Football League.
• 1940 - Don Metz was born. American architect.
• 1940 - Eric Wilson was born. Canadian children's author.
• 1941 - World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
• 1941 - Pete Best was born. British musician, original drummer of the Beatles.
• 1941 - Donald "Duck" Dunn was born. American musician, Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
• 1942 - Marlin Fitzwater was born. White House Press Secretary.
• 1942 - Billy Connolly was born. British comedian.
• 1943 - World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks with nearly 650 men killed.
• 1943 - Dave Bing was born. American basketball player.
• 1943 - Robin Williamson was born. Scottish musician.
• 1943 - Doris Miller dies (b. 1919). African-American cook in the United States Navy.
• 1944 - World War II: Bombing of Tokyo - The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land was made by 88 American aircraft.
• 1944 - Ibrahim Gambari was born. Nigerian scholar.
• 1945 - Lee Michaels was born. American musician and singer.
• 1946 - Penelope Jones Halsall was born. English novelist (aka Caroline Courtney, Melinda Wright, Annie Groves etc.).
• 1946 - Ted Bundy was born (d. 1989). American serial killer.
• 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.
• 1947 - Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1947 - Dave Sinclair was born. English musician (Caravan, Hatfield and the North).
• 1947 - Dwight Schultz was born. American actor.
• 1948 - Spider Robinson was born. science fiction author.
• 1948 - Steve Yeager was born. Baseball player.
• 1949 - The Iron and Steel Act nationalized the steel industry in Britain.
• 1949 - Shane Bourne was born. Australian comedian and actor.
• 1951 - Chet Edwards was born. American politician.
• 1951 - The Broadway play Gigi opens with little-known actress Audrey Hepburn in the title role.
• 1952 - Norbert Haug was born. German motorsport executive (Mercedes Benz).
• 1952 - Thierry Lhermitte was born. French comedian and actor.
• 1953 - Glenn Withrow was born. American actor.
• 1954 - Emir Kusturica was born in Sarajevo. Serbian film director.
• 1955 - Ian Botham was born. England cricketer.
• 1955 - Elvis Ramone was born. American drummer (The Ramones).
• 1955 - Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth was born. Swedish politician.
• 1955 - Takashi Yuasa was born. Japanese lawyer.
• 1956 - Guido Cantelli dies (b. 1920). Italian conductor.
• 1957 - Denise Crosby was born. American actress.
• 1957 - Edward Stourton was born. British radio presenter.
• 1957 - Diego Rivera dies (b. 1886). Mexican painter.
• 1958 - Alain Chabat was born. French actor and director.
• 1958 - Roy Aitken was born. Scottish former footballer.
• 1958 - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood dies (b. 1864). British politician, Nobel laureate.
• 1959 - Dally Messenger dies (b. 1883). Australian rugby league player.
• 1960 - Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in one game, setting an NBA record.
• 1960 - Amanda Wyss was born. American actress.
• 1960 - Edgar Meyer was born. American bassist and composer.
• 1960 - Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia dies (b. 1882).
• 1961 - Carlos Carnero was born. Spanish member of parliament.
• 1961 - Arundhati Roy was born. Indian writer.
• 1962 - The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
• 1962 - John Squire was born. British guitarist (The Stone Roses).
• 1962 - John Kovalic was born. British-born cartoonist.
• 1963 - John F. Kennedy assassination: Alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is mortally shot by Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas on live national 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.
• 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald is assassinated by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters on live 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.
• 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald dies (b. 1939). Accused assassin of John F. Kennedy.
• 1964 - Brad Sherwood was born. American comedian.
• 1964 - Robert Trujillo was born. American bassist (Metallica).
• 1964 - Tony Rombola was born. American guitarist (Godsmack).
• 1965 - Kim Roe-ha was born. South Korean actor.
• 1965 - Rui Barros was born. Portuguese football player.
• 1965 - Shirley Henderson was born. Scottish actress.
• 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.
• 1965 - Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah dies (b. 1895). Emir of Kuwait.
• 1966 - A Bulgarian plane with 82 people on board crashes near Bratislava, Slovakia.
• 1966 - New York City experiences the smoggiest day in that city's history.
• 1966 - Paul Robinett was born. American internet personality.
• 1966 - Russell Watson was born. British singer.
• 1967 - Cal Eldred was born. American baseball player.
• 1967 - Louis Fratto dies (b. 1908). American gangster.
• 1968 - Bülent Korkmaz was born. Turkish football player.
• 1968 - Todd Beamer was born (d. 2001). September 11 victim.
• 1969 - Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
• 1969 - Rob Nicholson was born. American musician.
• 1970 - Doug Brien was born. American football placekicker.
• 1970 - Julieta Venegas was born. Mexican singer.
• 1970 - Rute Marques was born in Porto. Portuguese model and actress.
• 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 US$200,000 in ransom money - neither he or the money are ever found.
• 1971 - Keith Primeau was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1971 - Lola Glaudini was born. American actress.
• 1971 - Cosmas Ndeti was born. Kenyan athlete, three-time Boston Marathon winner.
• 1973 - Cássia Linhares was born in Niterói. Brazilian actress.
• 1973 - John Neihardt dies (b. 1881). American writer.
• 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.
• 1974 - Stephen Merchant was born. British comedian.
• 1974 - Taro Yamamoto was born. Japanese actor.
• 1974 - Nick Drake dies (b. 1948). British singer and songwriter.
• 1975 - Sabrina Parlatore was born. Brazilian TV host.
• 1975 - Thomas Kohnstamm was born. American writer.
• 1976 - The Band gives its last public performance, documented by Martin Scorsese in the film The Last Waltz.
• 1976 - Dave Aizer was born. American television host.
• 1976 - Chen Lu was born. Chinese figure skater.
• 1976 - Christian Laflamme was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1977 - Colin Hanks was born. American actor.
• 1978 - Katherine Heigl was born. American actress.
• 1978 - Vanessa Incontrada was born in Barcelona. Spanish model and TV host.
• 1980 - Beth Phoenix was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1980 - George Raft dies (b. 1895). American actor.
• 1980 - Herbert Agar dies (b. 1897). American journalist and historian.
• 1981 - A ONU reconhece o direito à autodeterminação do povo de Timor.
• 1982 - Sean O'Loughlin was born. English rugby league footballer.
• 1983 - Dean Ashton was born. English football player.
• 1983 - Karine Vanasse was born. Quebec actress.
• 1983 - Meredith Henderson was born. Canadian actress.
• 1985 - The hijacking of an Egyptair jetliner parked on the ground in Malta ended violently as Egyptian commandos stormed the plane. Fifty-eight people died in the raid, in addition to two others killed by the hijackers.
• 1985 - Julia Alexandratou was born. Greek fashion model and singer. She won the B Miss Hellas 2006 title, (Greek: Β Σταρ Ελλάς), where she is going to be representing Greece at the Miss International 2006 event in Shanghai. See Julia Alexandratou big picture.
• 1985 - Tony Hunt was born. National Football League player.
• 1985 - Big Joe Turner dies (b. 1911). American singer.
• 1987 - Megan Mullins was born. American singer.
• 1987 - Jehane Benoît dies (b. 1904). French Canadian culinary author and commentator.
• 1989 - Elias Hrawi elected president of Lebanon.
• 1989 - Johnny Exantus was born. Haitian soccer player.
• 1990 - Fred Shero dies (b. 1925). National Hockey League player and coach.
• 1990 - Dodie Smith dies (b. 1896). English novelist and playwright.
• 1990 - Juan Manuel Bordeu dies (b. 1934). Argentine racing driver.
• 1991 - Freddie Mercury dies (b. 1946). Zanzibar-born singer (Queen).
• 1991 - Eric Carr dies (b. 1950). American drummer (KISS).
• 1992 - In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
• 1993 - In Liverpool, 11-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the murder of 2-year-old James Bulger.
• 1993 - Portugal: Uma manifestação estudantil contra a política de educação do ministro Couto dos Santos, nas escadarias da Assembleia da República, é interrompida por intervenção policial.
• 1993 - Albert Collins dies (b. 1932). American blues guitarist.
• 1994 - O Ministério Público acusa quatro técnicos navais de homicídio por negligência pelo naufrágio do Bolama, tendo sido posteriormente ilibados em Agosto de 1996.
• 1994 - Os gerentes do parque de diversões aquáticas Aquaparque do Restelo são acusados de homicídio por negligência pela morte de duas crianças em 1993.
• 1995 - O governo português anuncia a criação de um plano arqueológico no rio Côa e uma barragem alternativa no rio Sabor.
• 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 - Crowded House play a farewell concert in front of the Sydney Opera House for an estimated crowd of 250,000.
• 1996 - Sorley MacLean dies (b. 1911). British poet.
• 1998 - Queen Elizabeth II, speaking at the annual ceremonies opening the British Parliament, announced that the right of hereditary peers to vote in the House of Lords would end, though compromise legislation later allowed 92 hereditary peers to remain in the Lords /A rainha Isabel II de Inglaterra anunciou que o governo britânico iria apresentar uma lei, no Parlamento de Westminster, que acabaria com os direitos hereditários de participação na Câmara dos Lordes de 759 duques, marqueses, condes e outros titulares, membros da aristocracia britânica .
• 1998 - America Online announces it will acquire Netscape Communications in a stock-for-stock transaction worth US$4.2 billion.
• 1998 - Bridger Palmer and Brecken Palmer were born, American twins child actors.
• 2000 - The PlayStation 2 is released in Europe, for around €449/£299.
• 2001 - The Grand National Assembly of Turkey ratified changes to the country's legal code that made women equal to men before the law and no longer subject to their husbands.
• 2001 - In Switzerland a Swiss Crossair Jumbolino Avro RJ-100 crashed with 33 people on board. 24 were killed including American pop singer Melanie Thornton.
• 2001 - Melanie Thornton dies (b. 1967). American dance/pop singer.
• 2002 - In Ecuador Lucio Gutierrez , who led a Jan 2000 coup against Pres. Jamil Mahuad, was elected over billionaire Alvaro Noboa in a runoff election.
• 2002 - Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off on mission STS-113, the final successful shuttle flight before the ill-fated STS-107 Columbia mission.
• 2002 - John Rawls dies (b. 1921). Political philosopher.
• 2003 - Floquet de Neu dies (b. 1964). Ecuato Guinean albino gorilla.
• 2003 - Warren Spahn dies (b. 1921). Major League Baseball player.
• 2004 - Male Poʻo-uli dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
• 2004 - Wong Jim dies (b. 1940). Hong Kong songwriter.
• Roman festivals - in the Byzantine empire the Brumalia (a wine festival) were celebrated from this day until the winter solstice.
• 2004 - Arthur Hailey dies (b. 1920). British-born American author.
• 2005 - The Licensing Act 2003 comes into force in England and Wales, introducing flexibility in the hours during which alcoholic beverages may be sold.
• 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.
• 2005 - Pat Morita dies (b. 1932). American actor.
• 2006 - Israeli rapist Benny Sela escapes from police custody while being transferred to a court hearing.
• 2006 - Juice Leskinen dies (b. 1950). Finnish rock singer.
• 2006 - George W. S. Trow (d. 1943). American writer.
• 2006 - Zdeněk Veselovský dies (b. 1928). Czech zoologist.
• 2007 - Australians elect the Kevin Rudd-led centre-left Australian Labor Party at the federal election, ending the eleven-year tenure of the Howard Government, a centre-right Liberal/National coalition led by John Howard.
• R.C. Saints - Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and other Vietnamese martyrs.
• Feast Day of Saint Colman of Cloyne - Cobh, Ireland.
• Teacher's Day in Turkey.
• Lachit Divas is observed on 24th November each year in Assam, India to commemorate the heroism of the Assamese General Lachit Borphukan and the victory of Assamese army over the Mughal army in the Battle of Saraighat in 1671.
• Portugal - Municipal holydays in Entroncamento and Sines, Portuguese cities/ Feriado municipal em Entroncamento e em Sines.