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[edit]http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2015/11/24/public-event-november-24-2015
http://www.mykxlg.com/headline-news-for-wednesday-november-24th/
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http://www.roh.org.uk/events/calendar/2015/11/24
http://www.londontown.com/London/November-in-London (Tintin: Herge's Masterpiece Revealed: the art and life of the Belgium artist behind the be-quiffed cartoon hero.
Tintin: Herge's Masterpiece Somerset House, Strand London, WC2R 1LA Exhibitions Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA Tube: Temple Station Dates: 12th November 2015 to 31st January 2016)
[Royal Opera House: Morgen und Abend - Graham Vick, artistic director of Birmingham Opera Company, directs the world premiere of Morgen und Abend, Georg Friedrich Haas's new opera - the first commission for the Austrian composer from The Royal Opera.]
November 24
- 380 – Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
- 1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.
- 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
- 1877 – Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
- 1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
- 1941 – World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces.
- 1943 – World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
- 1944 – World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.
- 2013 – Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.
- 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.
- 1273 – Alphonso, Earl of Chester (d. 1284)
- 1394 – Charles, Duke of Orléans (d. 1465)
- 1420 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English knight (d. 1473)
- 1583 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet and painter (d. 1641)
- 1594 – Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1651)
- 1615 – Philip William, Elector Palatine, Bavarian son of Magdalene of Bavaria (d. 1690)
- 1630 – Étienne Baluze, French scholar and academic (d. 1718)
- 1690 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, organist and composer born in the Duchy of Württemberg (d. 1750)
- 1712 – Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French priest and educator (d. 1789)
- 1712 – Ali II ibn Hussein, Tunisian ruler (d. 1782)
- 1713 – Junípero Serra, Spanish priest and missionary (d. 1784)
- 1811 – Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (d. 1890)
- 1812 – Xavier Hommaire de Hell, French geographer and engineer (d. 1848)
- 1826 – Carlo Collodi, journalist and author born in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany (d. 1890)
- 1867 – Louis de Champsavin, French horse rider (d. 1916)
- 1897 – Lucky Luciano, Italian-American mobster (d. 1962)
- 1899 – Ward Morehouse, American author, playwright, and critic (d. 1966)
- 1916 – Forrest J Ackerman, American soldier and author (d. 2008)
- 1925 – Simon van der Meer, Dutch-Swiss physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
- 1930 – Bob Friend, American baseball player and politician
- 1935 – Ron Dellums, American soldier and politician, 48th Mayor of Oakland
- 1938 – Charles Starkweather, American spree killer (d. 1959)
- 1938 – Willy Claes, Belgian conductor and politician, 8th Secretary General of NATO
- 1941 – Pete Best, English drummer and songwriter (The Beatles and Lee Curtis and the All-Stars)
- 1941 – Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Mar-Keys, and The Blues Brothers) (d. 2012)
- 1942 – Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian, actor, and singer (The Humblebums)
- 1942 – Andrew Stunell, English politician
- 1943 – Robin Williamson, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Incredible String Band)
- 1946 – Penny Jordan, English author (d. 2011)
- 1946 – Tony Clarkin, English guitarist/songwriter (Magnum)
- 1948 – Spider Robinson, American-Canadian author and critic
- 1949 – Ewen Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington, English politician
- 1949 – Sally Davies, English hematologist and academic
- 1951 – Mimis Androulakis, Greek author and politician
- 1951 – Graham Price, Egyptian-Welsh rugby player
- 1952 – Thierry Lhermitte, French actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1954 – Margaret Wetherell, British social psychologist
- 1962 – Ioannis Topalidis, Greek footballer and manager
- 1966 – Russell Watson, English tenor and actor
- 1974 – Stephen Merchant, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1980 – Beth Phoenix, American wrestler
- 1982 – Damla Günay, Turkish archer
- 1983 – Dean Ashton, English footballer
- 1984 – Wolf Hudson, American porn actor and director
- 1986 – Pedro León, Spanish footballer
- 1990 – Tom Odell, English singer-songwriter
- 1993 – Ivi Adamou, Cypriot-Greek singer-songwriter
- 2003 – Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman, New Zealand meningococcal disease survivor
- 654 – Emperor Kōtoku of Japan (b. 596)
- 835 – Muhammad al-Jawad, Muslim religious leader born in Medina, 9th of the Twelve Imams (b. 811)
- 1265 – Magnus Olafsson, Manx king
- 1326 – Hugh Despenser the Younger, English courtier (b. 1296)
- 1468 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402)
- 1531 – Johannes Oecolampadius, theologian and reformer from the Electoral Palatinate (b. 1482)
- 1583 – René de Birague, French cardinal (b. 1506)
- 1675 – Guru Tegh Bahadur, 9th Guru of Sikhs from Amritsar (b. 1621)
- 1770 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian and author (b. 1685)
- 1775 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1703)
- 1801 – Franz Moritz von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)
- 1848 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779)
- 1916 – Hiram Maxim, American-English inventor, invented the Maxim gun (b. 1840)
- 1920 – Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian author and poet (b. 1854)
- 1929 – Georges Clemenceau, French physician, publisher, and politician, 72nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1841)
- 1936 – Lucio Godina, Filipino conjoined twin (b. 1908)
- 1957 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter and sculptor (b. 1886)
- 1958 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
- 1959 – Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player, cricketer, and sailor (b. 1883)
- 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
- 1982 – Barack Obama, Sr., Kenyan economist and academic (b. 1936)
- 1990 – Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer (b. 1910)
- 1990 – Bülent Arel, Turkish-born composer of contemporary classical music and electronic music (b. 1919)
- 1991 – Eric Carr, American drummer and songwriter (KISS) (b. 1950)
- 1991 – Freddie Mercury, Zanzibari-English singer-songwriter and producer (Queen and Ibex) (b. 1946)
- 1993 – Albert Collins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932)
- 2003 – Snowflake, Spanish gorilla (b. 1964)
- 2013 – Jean King, American politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii (b. 1925)
- 2013 – Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown, English banker and politician, Governor of the Bank of England (b. 1927)
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- Earliest day on which Mother's Day can fall, while November 30 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in November. (Russia)
- San Crisogono
- Colmán of Cloyne
- Firmina (Roman Catholic Church)
- Flavian of Ricina (Roman Catholic Church