133335 | November 24 | Event | 1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon. |
133336 | November 24 | Event | 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. |
133337 | November 24 | Event | 1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months. |
133338 | November 24 | Event | 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. |
133339 | November 24 | Event | 1976 – The Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people. |
133340 | November 24 | Event | 2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people. |
133341 | November 24 | Event | 2013 – Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions. |
133342 | November 24 | Birth | 1273 – Alphonso, Earl of Chester (d. 1284) |
133343 | November 24 | Birth | 1394 – Charles, Duke of Orléans (d. 1465) |
133344 | November 24 | Birth | 1420 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English knight (d. 1473) |
133345 | November 24 | Birth | 1583 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet and painter (d. 1641) |
133346 | November 24 | Birth | 1594 – Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1651) |
133347 | November 24 | Birth | 1615 – Philip William, Elector Palatine, German son of Magdalene of Bavaria (d. 1690) |
133348 | November 24 | Birth | 1630 – Étienne Baluze, French scholar and academic (d. 1718) |
133349 | November 24 | Birth | 1632 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and scholar (d. 1677) |
133350 | November 24 | Birth | 1655 – Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697) |
133321 | November 24 | Event | 1917 – In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001. |
133322 | November 24 | Event | 1922 – Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Robert Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver. |
133323 | November 24 | Event | 1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens. |
133324 | November 24 | Event | 1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress. |
133325 | November 24 | Event | 1940 – World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers. |
133326 | November 24 | Event | 1941 – World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces. |
133327 | November 24 | Event | 1943 – World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men. |
133328 | November 24 | Event | 1944 – World War II: Bombing of Tokyo: The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft. |
133329 | November 24 | Event | 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 |
133330 | November 24 | Event | 1962 – The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin. |
133331 | November 24 | Event | 1962 – The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast. |
133332 | November 24 | Event | 1963 – In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. |
133333 | November 24 | Event | 1965 – Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of 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. |
133334 | November 24 | Event | 1966 – Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board. |