24 November
Notable Births
Jeremy Swayman
b. 1998
American ice hockey player (born 1998)
Marcus Bontempelli
b. 1995
Australian rules footballer
Nabil Bentaleb
b. 1994
Algerian footballer (born 1994)
Ivi Adamou
b. 1993
Greek Cypriot singer (born 1993)
Joe Pigott
b. 1993
English footballer (born 1993)
Sergei Kulbach
b. 1992
Ukrainian pair skater (1992–2023)
Mario Gaspar
b. 1990
Spanish footballer (born 1990)
Sarah Hyland
b. 1990
American actress and singer (born 1990)
Tom Odell
b. 1990
British singer-songwriter (born 1990)
Michael Oldfield (rugby league)
b. 1990
Tonga international rugby league footballer
Jarrod Parker
b. 1988
American baseball player (born 1988)
Asim Chaudhry
b. 1986
British comedian and actor (born 1986)
Jimmy Graham
b. 1986
American football player (born 1986)
Pedro León
b. 1986
Spanish footballer (born 1986)
Julia Alexandratou
b. 1985
Musical artist
David Booth (ice hockey)
b. 1984
American ice hockey player (born 1984)
Maria Höfl-Riesch
b. 1984
German alpine skier (born 1984)
Dean Ashton
b. 1983
English footballer (born 1983)
André Laurito
b. 1983
Congolese footballer
Scott Joplin
b. 1868
American composer and pianist (1868–1917)
Notable Deaths
Jimmy Cliff
d. 2025
Jamaican musician (1944–2025)
Dharmendra
d. 2025
Indian actor and politician (1935–2025)
Barbara Taylor Bradford
d. 2024
British novelist (1933–2024)
Breyten Breytenbach
d. 2024
South African writer and painter (1939–2024)
Helen Gallagher
d. 2024
American actress and singer (1926–2024)
Börje Salming
d. 2022
Swedish ice hockey player (1951–2022)
Goo Hara
d. 2019
South Korean singer and actress (1991–2019)
Florence Henderson
d. 2016
American actress (1934–2016)
Heinz Oberhummer
d. 2015
Austrian physicist and skeptic (1941–2015)
Murli Deora
d. 2014
Indian politician, Mayor of Mumbai (1937–2014)
Peter Henderson (sportsman)
d. 2014
Rugby player
Nenad Manojlović
d. 2014
Water polo player and coach, Yeguslavia, Serbia
Viktor Tikhonov (ice hockey, born 1930)
d. 2014
Russian ice hockey player (1930–2014)
Matthew Bucksbaum
d. 2013
American businessman and philanthropist
Arnaud Coyot
d. 2013
French cyclist
Jean King
d. 2013
American politician
Matti Ranin
d. 2013
Finnish actor (1926–2013)
Héctor Camacho
d. 2012
Puerto Rican boxer (1962–2012)
Antoine Kohn
d. 2012
Luxembourgish footballer and manager
Jimmy Stewart (baseball)
d. 2012
American baseball player (1939–2012)
On This Day in History
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2023
Hibiscus Rising, commemorating David Oluwale, is unveiled in Leeds.
Hibiscus Rising
2022
Five days after the general elections which resulted in a hung parliament, opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim is officially named as the 10th prime minister of Malaysia.
2022 Malaysian general election
2017
A terrorist attack on a Mosque in Al-Rawda, North Sinai, Egypt kills 311 people and injures 128.
2017 Sinai mosque attack
2016
The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's more than 50-year-long civil war.
Colombia
2015
A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria–Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.
Russian Air Force
2015
A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others.
Arish hotel bombing
2015
An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.
2015 Tunis bombing
2013
Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.
Iran
2012
A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.
2012 Dhaka garment factory fire
2009
The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, is founded in Bucharest, Romania.
Avdhela Project
2001
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.
Crossair Flight 3597
1992
China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashes on approach to Guilin Qifengling Airport in Guilin, China, killing all 141 people on board.
China Southern Airlines Flight 3943
1991
Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches on STS-44.
Space Shuttle program
1989
After a week of mass protests against the Communist regime known as the Velvet Revolution, Miloš Jakeš and the entire Politburo of the Czechoslovak Communist Party resign from office. This brings an effective end to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia.
Velvet Revolution
1976
The Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.
1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake
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.
Donald Johanson
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.
Autobahn
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.
Washington (state)
1969
Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to land on the Moon.
Apollo program
1966
Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
TABSO Flight 101