November, 24th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Tuesday 24, 1998:
America online announces it will acquire Netscape Communications in a stock-for-stock transaction worth US$4.2 billion.

Sunday 24, 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).

Wednesday 24, 1993:
In the United Kingdom, 11-year olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the child murder of 2-year-old James Bulger of Liverpool (they were sentenced to "indefinite detention").

Tuesday 24, 1992:
In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.

Wednesday 24, 1976:
The Band gives its last public performance; Martin Scorsese is on hand to film it (see: The Last Waltz).

Wednesday 24, 1971:
During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a man calling himself Dan Cooper (commonly remembered as D. B. Cooper) parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he hijacked with US$200,000 in ransom money (he was never heard from again).

Monday 24, 1969:
Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.

Sunday 24, 1963:
Vietnam War: Newly sworn in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam militarily and economically.

Saturday 24, 1962:
The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.

Saturday 24, 1951:
The Broadway play Gigi opens starring little known actress Audrey Hepburn playing the lead character (the play ran for six months and led to Hepburn's film debut in Roman Holiday).

Monday 24, 1947:
Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France

Friday 24, 1944:
The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital of Tokyo from the east and by land was made by 88 American aircraft.

Monday 24, 1941:
World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.

Sunday 24, 1935:
The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.

Thursday 24, 1932:
In Washington, DC, the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.

Friday 24, 1922:
Popular author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.

Thursday 24, 1904:
The first successful caterpillar track is made (it would later revolutionize construction vehicles and land warfare).

Tuesday 24, 1863:
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.

Thursday 24, 1859:
British naturalist Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species, a book which argues that organisms gradually evolve through natural selection (it immediately sold out its initial print run).

Monday 24, 1642:
Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).

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

Thursday 24, 642:
Theodore succeeds John IV as Pope.

Monday 24, 380:
Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/24-november/on-this-day.html


People born on November 24

1978:
Katherine Heigl, American actress (b: November 24, 1978) (Biography of Katherine Heigl)

1976:
Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater (b: November 24, 1976) (Biography of Chen Lu)

1971:
Keith Primeau, Canadian hockey player (b: November 24, 1971) (Biography of Keith Primeau)

1967:
Russell Watson, British singer (b: November 24, 1967) (Biography of Russell Watson)

1964:
Brad Sherwood, American comedian (b: November 24, 1964) (Biography of Brad Sherwood)
Robert Trujillo, American bass player (Metallica) (b: November 24, 1964) (Biography of Robert Trujillo)

1960:
Amanda Wyss, American actress (b: November 24, 1960) (Biography of Amanda Wyss)

1957:
Denise Crosby, American actress (b: November 24, 1957) (Biography of Denise Crosby)

1955:
Ian Botham, British cricketer (b: November 24, 1955) (Biography of Ian Botham)
Elvis Ramone, American drummer (The Ramones) (b: November 24, 1955) (Biography of Elvis Ramone)
Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer (b: November 24, 1955) (Biography of Takashi Yuasa)

1951:
Chet Edwards, American politician (b: November 24, 1951) (Biography of Chet Edwards)

1948:
Steve Yeager, baseball player (b: November 24, 1948) (Biography of Steve Yeager)

1947:
Dwight Schultz, American actor (b: November 24, 1947) (Biography of Dwight Schultz)

1946:
Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b: November 24, 1946 ; d: January 24, 1989) (Biography of Ted Bundy)

1943:
Dave Bing, American basketball player (b: November 24, 1943) (Biography of Dave Bing)

1942:
Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian (b: November 24, 1942) (Biography of Billy Connolly)

1941:
Pete Best, British drummer (b: November 24, 1941) (Biography of Pete Best)

1938:
Oscar Robertson, American basketball player (b: November 24, 1938) (Biography of Oscar Robertson)

1934:
Alfred Schnittke, German composer (b: November 24, 1934 ; d: August 3, 1998) (Biography of Alfred Schnittke)

1930:
Bob Friend, baseball player (b: November 24, 1930) (Biography of Bob Friend)

1927:
Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b: November 24, 1927 ; d: September 10, 1999) (Biography of Alfredo Kraus)
Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (b: November 24, 1927 ; d: December 11, 2003) (Biography of Ahmadou Kourouma)

1926:
Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: November 24, 1926) (Biography of Tsung-Dao Lee)

1925:
William F. Buckley Jr., writer and political commentator (b: November 24, 1925) (Biography of William F. Buckley Jr.)
Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: November 24, 1925) (Biography of Simon van der Meer)

1924:
Victor Grinich Croatian-American businesman (b: November 24, 1924 ; d: November 5, 2000) (Biography of Victor Grinich)

1921:
John Lindsay, American politician (b: November 24, 1921) (Biography of John Lindsay)

1917:
Howard Duff, American actor (b: November 24, 1917 ; d: July 8, 1990) (Biography of Howard Duff)

1916:
Forrest J. Ackerman, American writer and publisher (b: November 24, 1916) (Biography of Forrest J. Ackerman)

1913:
Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (b: November 24, 1913) (Biography of Geraldine Fitzgerald)

1912:
Garson Kanin, American writer (b: November 24, 1912 ; d: March 13, 1999) (Biography of Garson Kanin)
Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (b: November 24, 1912) (Biography of Teddy Wilson)

1905:
Irving Allen, American film producer and director (b: November 24, 1905 ; d: December 17, 1987) (Biography of Irving Allen)

1894:
Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b: November 24, 1894 ; d: January 22, 1978) (Biography of Herbert Sutcliffe)

1888:
Dale Carnegie, American writer (b: November 24, 1888) (Biography of Dale Carnegie)
Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist (b: November 24, 1888) (Biography of Fredrick Willius)

1884:
Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (b: November 24, 1884) (Biography of Itzhak Ben-Zvi)

1881:
Al Christie, Hollywood director and producer (b: November 24, 1881 ; d: April 4, 1951) (Biography of Al Christie)

1877:
Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States (b: November 24, 1877 ; d: April 30, 1956) (Biography of Alben W. Barkley)

1876:
Walter Burley Griffin, American architect (b: November 24, 1876) (Biography of Walter Burley Griffin)

1874:
Charles Miller, father of Brazilian football (b: November 24, 1874 ; d: June 30, 1953) (Biography of Charles William Miller)

1868:
Scott Joplin, American musician (b: November 24, 1868 ; d: April 1, 1917) (Biography of Scott Joplin)

1864:
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b: November 24, 1864 ; d: September 9, 1901) (Biography of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec)

1859:
Cass Gilbert, American architect (b: November 24, 1859) (Biography of Cass Gilbert)

1853:
Bat Masterson, American gunfighter and policeman (b: November 24, 1853 ; d: October 25, 1921) (Biography of Bat Masterson)

1849:
Frances Hodgson Burnett, English author (b: November 24, 1849) (Biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett)

1826:
Carlo Collodi, Italian author (b: November 24, 1826 ; d: October 26, 1890) (Biography of Carlo Collodi)

1811:
Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councilor (b: November 24, 1811 ; d: November 3, 1890) (Biography of Ulrich Ochsenbein)

1801:
Ludwig Bechstein, German narrator and poet (b: November 24, 1801 ; d: May 14, 1860) (Biography of Ludwig Bechstein)

1787:
Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist and composer (b: November 24, 1787) (Biography of Franz Xaver Gruber)

1784:
Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (b: November 24, 1784 ; d: July 9, 1850) (Biography of Zachary Taylor)

1729:
Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (b: November 24, 1729 ; d: May 18, 1800) (Biography of Alexander Suvorov)

1713:
Junipero Serra, Spanish missionary (b: November 24, 1713 ; d: August 28, 1784) (Biography of Junípero Serra)
Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist (b: November 24, 1713) (Biography of Laurence Sterne)

1690:
Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b: November 24, 1690 ; d: September 15, 1750) (Biography of Charles Theodore Pachelbel)

1655:
King Charles XI of Sweden (b: November 24, 1655 ; d: April 5, 1697) (Biography of Charles XI of Sweden)

1632:
Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (b: November 24, 1632 ; d: February 21, 1677) (Biography of Baruch Spinoza)

1630:
Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b: November 24, 1630 ; d: July 28, 1718) (Biography of Etienne Baluze)

1615:
Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b: November 24, 1615 ; d: September 2, 1690) (Biography of Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine)

1583:
Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (b: November 24, 1583 ; d: January 11, 1641) (Biography of Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar)

1420:
John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b: November 24, 1420 ; d: May 8, 1473) (Biography of John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire)

1394:
Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (b: November 24, 1394 ; d: January 5, 1465) (Biography of Charles, Duke of Orléans)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/24-november/births.html

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They left us on November 24

2003:
Floquet de Neu (d: November 24, 2003) (Biography of Floquet de Neu)

2001:
Arthur Hailey, American writer (b: April 5, 1920 ; d: November 24, 2001) (Biography of Arthur Hailey)

1996:
Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet (b: October 26, 1911 ; d: November 24, 1996) (Biography of Sorley MacLean)

1991:
Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer Queen (b: September 5, 1946 ; d: November 24, 1991) (Biography of Freddie Mercury)

1985:
Big Joe Turner, American blues singer (b: May 18, 1911 ; d: November 24, 1985) (Biography of Big Joe Turner)

1980:
George Raft, American actor (b: September 26, 1895 ; d: November 24, 1980) (Biography of George Raft)

1973:
John Neihardt (d: November 24, 1973) (Biography of John Neihardt)

1958:
Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b: September 14, 1864 ; d: November 24, 1958) (Biography of Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood)

1957:
Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b: December 8, 1886 ; d: November 24, 1957) (Biography of Diego Rivera)

1956:
Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b: April 27, 1920 ; d: November 24, 1956) (Biography of Guido Cantelli)

1943:
Doris Miller, African American cook in the United States Navy (b: October 12, 1919 ; d: November 24, 1943) (Biography of Doris Miller)

1929:
Georges Clemenceau, French politician (b: September 28, 1841 ; d: November 24, 1929) (Biography of Georges Clemenceau)

1922:
Robert Erskine Childers (d: November 24, 1922) (Biography of Robert Erskine Childers)

1916:
Hiram Stevens Maxim, American weapons inventor (b: February 4, 1840 ; d: November 24, 1916) (Biography of Hiram Stevens Maxim)

1890:
August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (b: December 8, 1816 ; d: November 24, 1890) (Biography of August Belmont, Sr.)

1870:
Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (b: April 4, 1846 ; d: November 24, 1870) (Biography of Comte de Lautréamont)

1848:
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (d: November 24, 1848) (Biography of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne)

1801:
Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b: October 21, 1725 ; d: November 24, 1801) (Biography of Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy)

1781:
James Caldwell (d: November 24, 1781) (Biography of James Caldwell)

1775:
Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (b: August 2, 1703 ; d: November 24, 1775) (Biography of Lorenzo Ricci)

1770:
Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (b: February 8, 1685 ; d: November 24, 1770) (Biography of Charles-Jean-François Hénault)

1741:
Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (b: February 23, 1688 ; d: November 24, 1741) (Biography of Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden)

1722:
Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (b: April 27, 1623 ; d: November 24, 1722) (Biography of Johann Adam Reinken)

1650:
Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (b: December 11, 1566 ; d: November 24, 1650) (Biography of Manuel Cardoso)

1615:
Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (b: February 21, 1556 ; d: November 24, 1615) (Biography of Sethus Calvisius)

1583:
René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b: February 2, 1506 ; d: November 24, 1583) (Biography of René de Birague)

1572:
John Knox (d: November 24, 1572) (Biography of John Knox)

1541:
Margaret Tudor, queen of James IV of Scotland (b: November 28, 1489 ; d: November 24, 1541) (Biography of Margaret Tudor)

1531:
Johannes Oecolampadius (d: November 24, 1531) (Biography of Johannes Oecolampadius)

1468:
Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b: November 23, 1402 ; d: November 24, 1468) (Biography of Jean de Dunois)

654:
Emperor Kotoku (d: November 24, 654) (Biography of Emperor Kotoku)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/24-november/deaths.html