Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 24
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This is a list of selected November 24 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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The Death of Leszek the White
by Jan Matejko, 1880
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| ; Teachers' Day in Turkey | refimprove |
| 1190 – Conrad of Montferrat became de jure uxoris King of Jerusalem after marrying Queen Isabella I. | needs more footnotes |
| 1227 – Leszek the White, High Duke of Poland, was assassinated during a meeting of Piast dukes. | Bold article (Gąsawa massacre) does not specify the date |
| 1642 – A Dutch expedition led by Abel Tasman reached what is now Tasmania, Australia. | refimprove section |
| 1832 – South Carolina passed the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were null and void in the state, beginning the Nullification crisis. | too many quotes |
| 1877 – Anna Sewell's influential animal welfare novel Black Beauty, one of the best-selling books of all time, was first published. | unreferenced section |
| 1962 – The influential television programme That Was the Week That Was, a significant element of the British satire boom, was first broadcast. | refimprove section |
| 1965 – Mobutu seized power from Congo President Joseph Kasa-Vubu after a bloodless coup d'état. | refimprove section, article says Nov 25, but infobox says 24 |
| 1966 – TABSO Flight 101 crashed near Bratislava, killing all 82 on board, making it Slovakia's worst air disaster. | refimprove |
| 2016 – The Colombian government signed a revised peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, temporarily bringing an end to the ongoing civil war. | Peace process: lead too short; Conflict: lots of CN tags (27) |
| Junípero Serra |b|1713 | refimprove |
| Mingyi Nyo |d|1530| | missing citations |
| Beth Phoenix |b|1980| | Citations needed orange banner |
Eligible
- 1221 – Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire: Genghis Khan defeated the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus.
- 1750 – Tarabai, the former regent of the Maratha Empire, had Rajaram II, whom she had previously claimed to be her grandson, arrested as an impostor.
- 1863 – American Civil War: As part of the Chattanooga campaign in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces captured Lookout Mountain, helping them to begin breaking the Confederate siege of the city.
- 1906 – The second of two games between two Ohio football teams took place, after which accusations were made that players conspired to deliberately lose games.
- 1922 – Irish Civil War: Irish nationalist author Erskine Childers was executed by the Irish Free State for illegally carrying a semi-automatic pistol.
- 1925 – The Eugene O'Neill Theatre opened on Broadway, New York, with a production of the musical Mayflowers.
- 1941 – The Holocaust: The Theresienstadt Ghetto was founded as a waystation to Nazi extermination camps and a "retirement settlement" for elderly and prominent Jews to mislead their communities about the Final Solution.
- 1943 – World War II: Following the American capture of Makin Atoll, USS Liscome Bay was sunk by a torpedo from Japanese submarine I-175, killing 644.
- 1950 – The "Great Appalachian Storm", a large extratropical cyclone, struck the east coast of the United States before moving northeast.
- 1963 – During a live television broadcast, businessman Jack Ruby shot and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated U.S. president John F. Kennedy, fueling numerous conspiracy theories.
- 1971 – After collecting a ransom payout of $200,000, D. B. Cooper (depicted) parachuted out of the rear stairway of the airplane he had hijacked over the Pacific Northwest and disappeared.
- 2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, killed at least 117 people.
- 2015 – A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft was shot down by a Turkish fighter jet after the former allegedly strayed into Turkish airspace and ignored warnings to change course.
- Born/died this day: | Bagrat IV of Georgia |d|1072| Magnús Óláfsson |d|1265| Pietro Torrigiano |b|1472| Laurence Sterne |b|1713| Philip Hamilton |d|1801| William Webb Ellis |b|1806| William P. Ragsdale |d|1877| Oscar Robertson|b|1938| Anna Jarvis |d|1948| Sylvie Kinigi|b|1953| Diego Rivera |d|1957| Arundhati Roy |b|1961|
Notes
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy featured on November 22, so Ruby/Oswald should not appear in the same year
- Battle of Missionary Ridge appears on November 25, so Battle of Lookout Mountain should not appear in the same year
- Ann Jarvis appears on September 30, so Anna Jarvis (her daughter) should not appear in the same year
November 24: Feast day of the Vietnamese Martyrs (Catholicism)
Hibiscus Rising
- 1542 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces captured about 1,200 Scots at the Battle of Solway Moss.
- 1859 – British naturalist Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day.
- 1976 – A magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck eastern Turkey, destroying 80 per cent of buildings in the region and causing at least 4,000 casualties.
- 2009 – The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, was launched in Bucharest, Romania.
- 2023 – Hibiscus Rising (pictured), a sculpture commemorating the life of David Oluwale, was unveiled in Leeds.
- Zachary Taylor (b. 1784)
- Eileen Barton (b. 1924)
- Tarō Yamamoto (b. 1974)
- Goo Hara (d. 2019)
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