Editing November 24 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[380]] &ndash; [[Theodosius I]] makes his ''[[adventus (ceremony)|adventus]]'', or formal entry, into [[Constantinople]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Haykin|title=The Spirit of God: The Exegesis of 1 and 2 Corinthians in the Pneumatomachian Controversy of the Fourth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S-p5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA179|year= 1994|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-31294-4|pages=179}}</ref>
*[[1190]] &ndash; [[Conrad of Montferrat]] becomes [[King of Jerusalem]] upon his marriage to [[Isabella I of Jerusalem]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Pipe roll society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=du1XAAAAIAAJ|year=1974|page=63}}</ref>
*[[1221]] &ndash; [[Genghis Khan]] defeats the renegade [[Khwarazmian Empire|Khwarazmian]] prince [[Jalal al-Din Mangburni|Jalal al-Din]] at the [[Battle of the Indus]], completing the [[Mongol conquest of Central Asia]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion |edition=Third |last=Barthold |first=Vasily |date=1968 |orig-date=1900 |publisher=Gibb Memorial Trust |oclc=4523164 |author-link=Vasily Bartold |page=445}}</ref>
*[[1227]] &ndash; [[Gąsawa massacre]]: At an assembly of [[Piast]] dukes at [[Gąsawa]], Polish Prince [[Leszek the White]],  Duke [[Henry the Bearded]] and others are attacked by assassins while bathing.<ref>{{cite book | title=Polska Piastow | publisher=Proszynski | author=Jasienica Pawel | author-link=Pawel Jasienica | year=2007 | pages=174, 236 | isbn=9788374694797}}</ref> 
*[[1248]] &ndash; An overnight landslide on the north side of [[Mont Granier]], one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Sujit Mandal|author2=Ramkrishna Maiti|title=Semi-quantitative Approaches for Landslide Assessment and Prediction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vqQ9BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA4|year=2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-981-287-146-6|p=4}}</ref>
*[[1359]] &ndash; [[Peter I of Cyprus]] ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father, [[Hugh IV of Cyprus]], abdicates.
*[[1429]] &ndash; [[Hundred Years' War]]: [[Joan of Arc]] unsuccessfully [[Siege of La Charité|besieges La Charité]].
*[[1542]] &ndash; [[Battle of Solway Moss]]: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the [[River Esk, Dumfries and Galloway|River Esk]] in [[Dumfries and Galloway]].

===1601–1900===
*[[1642]] &ndash; [[Abel Tasman]] becomes the first European to discover the island [[Van Diemen's Land]] (later renamed [[Tasmania]]).
*[[1750]] &ndash; [[Tarabai]], regent of the [[Maratha Confederacy|Maratha Empire]], imprisons [[Rajaram II of Satara]] for refusing to remove [[Balaji Baji Rao]] from the post of [[peshwa]].
*[[1832]] &ndash; [[South Carolina]] passes the [[Ordinance of Nullification]], declaring that the [[Tariff of 1828|Tariffs of 1828]] and [[Tariff of Abominations|1832]] were null and void in the state, beginning the [[Nullification Crisis]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/300 |title=South Carolina Legislature Passes the Ordinance of Nullification  |website=History Engine |publisher=[[University of Richmond]] |df=mdy-all |access-date=2019-11-21}}</ref>
*[[1835]] &ndash; The Texas Provincial Government [[History of the Texas Ranger Division|authorizes the creation]] of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the [[Texas Ranger Division]] of the [[Texas Department of Public Safety]]).
*[[1850]] &ndash; Danish troops [[Battle of Lottorf|defeat]] a [[Schleswig-Holstein]] force in the town of [[Lottorf]], Schleswig-Holstein.
*[[1859]] &ndash; British naturalist [[Charles Darwin]]'s ''[[On the Origin of Species]]'' is published.<ref name="TES97">{{cite web |url=http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=100322 |title=Make a special date for assembly - 1997 |date=6 December 1996 |website=[[TES (magazine)|TES]] |access-date=28 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141209001039/https://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=100322 |archive-date=9 December 2014 |url-status=dead }} "Schools trying to link religious, moral and spiritual education into the wider framework of group assemblies will find here a calendar listing the main [[religious festival]]s of the six [[major religious groups|main faiths]], the [[International observance|United Nation's designated days of concern]], profile-raising days of the main British charities, anniversaries of major figures whose lives embodied important values and days of special interest to those dealing with children [… November] 24 Evolution Day (Humanist - publication of Origin of Species)"</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=82274 |title=Dates to remember in 1999 |date=1 January 1999 |website=TES (magazine) |access-date=28 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208232416/https://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=82274 |archive-date=8 December 2014 |url-status=dead }} "Evolution Day: anniversary of publication of "The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin (1859)"</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2011/11/24/evolution-day/ |title=Evolution Day |author=Elizabeth Bal |date=24 November 2011 |website=[[BioMed Central]] |access-date=28 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205160439/http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2011/11/24/evolution-day/ |archive-date=5 December 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>
{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/3602107/darwin-evolution-day/ |title=On Evolution Day, Remember That Darwin Knew He'd Meet Resistance |author=[[Jeffrey Kluger]] |date=24 November 2014 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=28 November 2014}}
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*[[1863]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Third Battle of Chattanooga|Battle of Lookout Mountain]]: Near [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]], [[United States|Union]] forces under General [[Ulysses S. Grant]] capture [[Lookout Mountain]] and begin to break the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] siege of the city led by General [[Braxton Bragg]].
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Anna Sewell]]'s [[animal welfare]] novel ''[[Black Beauty]]'' is published.

===1901–present===
*[[1906]] &ndash; A 13–6 victory by the [[Massillon Tigers]] over their rivals, the [[Canton Bulldogs]], for the "[[Ohio League]]" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was [[Match fixing|fixed]] and results in [[Canton Bulldogs–Massillon Tigers betting scandal|the first major scandal]] in professional [[American football]].
*[[1917]] &ndash; In [[Milwaukee]], nine members of the [[Milwaukee Police Department]] are [[Milwaukee Police Department bombing|killed by a bomb]], the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the [[September 11 attacks]] in [[2001]]. 
*[[1922]] &ndash; Nine [[Irish Republican Army]] members are [[Executions during the Irish Civil War#The first executions and reprisals|executed]] by an [[Irish Free State]] firing squad. Among them is author [[Erskine Childers (author)|Erskine Childers]], who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.
*[[1929]] &ndash; The Finnish far-right [[Lapua Movement]] officially begins when a group of mainly the former [[White Guard (Finland)|White Guard]] members, led by [[Vihtori Kosola]], interrupted [[communism]] occasion at the Workers' House in [[Lapua, Finland]].<ref>(Niinistö, Jussi, Suomalaisia vapaustaistelijoita / Finnish Freedom Fighters, NIMOX KY/Ltd., 2003, pp. 17–20;  Siltala, Juha, Lapuan liike ja kyyditykset, Otava, 1985, pp. 51–53;  Virkkunen, Sakari, Suomen presidentit I / Finland's Presidents I, Otava, 1994, pp. 192–193;  Salokangas, Raimo, "Itsenäinen tasavalta" / "An Independent Republic," p. 635 in Zetterberg, Seppo et al., eds., Suomen historian pikkujättiläinen / A Small Giant of the Finnish History, WSOY, 2003).</ref>
*[[1932]] &ndash; In Washington, D.C., the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the [[FBI Crime Lab]]) officially opens.
*[[1935]] &ndash; The [[Senegalese Socialist Party]] holds its second congress.
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: The [[Slovak Republic (1939–45)|First Slovak Republic]] becomes a signatory to the [[Tripartite Pact]], officially joining the [[Axis powers#Slovakia (Tiso regime)|Axis powers]].
*[[1941]] &ndash; World War II: The United States grants [[Lend-Lease]] to the [[Free French Forces]].
*[[1943]] &ndash; World War II: At the [[battle of Makin]] the {{USS|Liscome Bay|CVE-56|6}} is torpedoed near [[Tarawa]] and sinks, killing 650 men.
*[[1944]] &ndash; World War II: The [[73rd Air Division|73rd Bombardment Wing]] launches the first [[Bombing of Tokyo|attack on Tokyo]] from the [[Northern Mariana Islands]].
*[[1962]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: The [[West Berlin]] branch of the [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany]] forms a separate party, the [[Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin]].
*  1962   &ndash; The influential British satirical television programme ''[[That Was the Week That Was]]'' is first broadcast.
*[[1963]] &ndash; [[Lee Harvey Oswald]], the assassin of President [[John F. Kennedy]], is killed by [[Jack Ruby]] on live television. [[Robert H. Jackson (photographer)|Robert H. Jackson]] takes a photograph of the shooting that will win the [[1964 Pulitzer Prize]] in [[Pulitzer Prize for Photography|Photography]].
*[[1965]] &ndash; [[Mobutu Sese Seko|Joseph-Désiré Mobutu]] seizes power in the [[Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)|Democratic Republic of the Congo]] and becomes [[List of presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo|President]]; he rules the country (which he renames [[Zaire]] in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
*[[1966]] &ndash; Bulgarian [[TABSO Flight 101]] crashes near [[Bratislava]], [[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic|Czechoslovakia]], killing all 82 people on board.
*[[1969]] &ndash; [[Apollo program]]: The [[Apollo 12]] command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to land on the Moon.
*[[1971]] &ndash; During a severe thunderstorm over [[Washington (state)|Washington]] state, a [[Aircraft hijacking|hijacker]] calling himself Dan Cooper (aka [[D. B. Cooper]]) parachutes from a [[Northwest Airlines|Northwest Orient Airlines]] plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
*[[1973]] &ndash; A national speed limit is imposed on the [[Autobahn]] in Germany because of the [[1973 oil crisis]]. The speed limit lasts only four months.
*[[1974]] &ndash; [[Donald Johanson]] and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete ''[[Australopithecus afarensis]]'' skeleton, nicknamed "[[Lucy (Australopithecus)|Lucy]]" (after [[The Beatles]] song "[[Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds]]"), in the [[Awash River|Awash Valley]] of [[Ethiopia]]'s [[Afar Triangle|Afar Depression]].
*[[1976]] &ndash; The [[1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake|Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake]] in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.
*[[1989]] &ndash; After a week of mass protests against the Communist regime known as the [[Velvet Revolution]], [[Miloš Jakeš]] and the entire Politburo of the [[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovak Communist Party]] resign from office.  This brings an effective end to [[History of Czechoslovakia (1948–1989)|Communist rule in Czechoslovakia]].<ref>[http://www.totalita.cz/1989/1989_1124.php] (''in Czech'')</ref>
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Space Shuttle program]]: [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|''Atlantis'']] launches on [[STS-44]].<ref>{{cite web |title=STS-44 |url=http://spacefacts.de/mission/english/sts-44.htm |access-date=February 26, 2014 |website=Spacefacts}}</ref>
*[[1992]] &ndash; [[China Southern Airlines Flight 3943]] crashes on approach to [[Guilin Qifengling Airport]] in [[Guilin]], China, killing all 141 people on board.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19921124-0|title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-3Y0 B-2523 Guilin Airport (KWL)|last=Ranter|first=Harro|website=aviation-safety.net|access-date=2019-06-24}}</ref>
*[[2001]] &ndash; [[Crossair Flight 3597]] crashes in [[Bassersdorf]] near [[Zurich Airport]], killing 24 people, including singer [[Melanie Thornton]] and two members of the German band [[Passion Fruit (group)|Passion Fruit]].<ref name="NZZ">{{cite news |date=27 November 2001 |title=Liste der tödlich Verunglückten |trans-title=List of fatally injured |url=http://www.nzz.ch/2001/11/27/zh/article7tcs2_1.503442.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115203007/http://www.nzz.ch/2001/11/27/zh/article7tcs2_1.503442.html |archive-date=15 January 2013 |accessdate=11 December 2009 |newspaper=[[Neue Zürcher Zeitung]] |language=German}}</ref>
*[[2009]] &ndash; The [[Avdhela Project]], an [[Aromanians|Aromanian]] [[digital library]] and cultural initiative, is founded in [[Bucharest]], Romania.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-cultura-6536622-avdhela-ndash-biblioteca-culturii-aromane.htm|title=Avdhela – Biblioteca Culturii Aromâne|first=Ionuț|last=Baiaș|newspaper=[[HotNews]]|date=22 November 2009|language=ro}}</ref>
*[[2012]] &ndash; [[2012 Dhaka garment factory fire|A fire]] at a clothing factory in [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.
*[[2013]] &ndash; [[Iran]] signs an interim [[Joint Plan of Action|agreement]] with the [[P5+1|P5+1 countries]], limiting its [[Nuclear program of Iran|nuclear program]] in exchange for reduced [[International sanctions against Iran|sanctions]].
*[[2015]] &ndash; A [[Russian Air Force]] [[Sukhoi Su-24]] fighter jet is [[2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown|shot down]] by the [[Turkish Air Force]] over the [[Syria&ndash;Turkey border]], killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.
*  2015 &ndash; A [[Arish hotel bombing|terrorist attack]] on a hotel in [[Arish|Al-Arish]], Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others.
*  2015 &ndash; An [[2015 Tunis bombing|explosion on a bus]] carrying [[Tunisian Presidential Security|Tunisian Presidential Guard]] personnel in Tunisia's capital [[Tunis]] leaves at least 14 people dead.
*[[2016]] &ndash; The government of [[Colombia]] and the [[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia|Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People's Army]] sign a revised [[Colombian peace process|peace deal]], bringing an end to [[Colombian conflict|the country's more than 50-year-long civil war]].
*[[2017]] &ndash; A [[2017 Sinai mosque attack|terrorist attack]] on a Mosque in [[Al-Rawda, North Sinai]], Egypt kills 311 people and injures 128.<ref name="WALSH-nyt">{{cite news |last1=Walsh |first1=Declan |last2=Youssef |first2=Nour |date=24 November 2017 |title=Militants Kill 305 at Sufi Mosque in Egypt's Deadliest Terrorist Attack |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/24/world/middleeast/mosque-attack-egypt.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2021-02-06}}</ref>
*[[2022]] &ndash; Five days after [[2022 Malaysian general election|the general elections]] which resulted in a [[hung parliament]], [[Leader of the Opposition|opposition leader]] and [[Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia|former deputy prime minister]] [[Anwar Ibrahim]] is officially named as [[Prime Minister of Malaysia|the 10th prime minister of Malaysia]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Teoh |first=Shannon |date=2022-11-24 |title=Anwar Ibrahim sworn in as Malaysia's 10th prime minister, ending 24-year wait |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/anwar-is-malaysia-s-10th-pm |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=The Straits Times}}</ref>
*[[2023]] &ndash; ''[[Hibiscus Rising]]'', commemorating [[Death of David Oluwale|David Oluwale]], is unveiled in Leeds.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-11-24 |title=Leeds: David Oluwale flower sculpture unveiled in city centre |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-67512780 |access-date=2024-07-16 |language=en-GB}}</ref>