Year 1434
River Thames was completely frozen.
NOVEMBER 24
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24 November: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 24 November.
Observances & Special Days
Evolution Day (International observance)
Lachit Divas (Assam)
Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur (India)
Year 1859
The publication of Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species.’
Year 1871
National Rifle Association (NYC) formed.
Year 1919
Gandhiji presides over All-India Khilafat conference at Delhi.
Year 1926
Aurobindo Ghose, former I.C.S. and revolutionary, attained full enlightenment I.e 'Purna Siddhi'.
Year 1932
The Third Round Table Conference ended in London. As Gandhi was in prison because of his civil disobedience movement he could not attend it. This conference ended without achieving anything.
Year 1941
Attack on Pearl Harbour.
Year 1941
Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar.
Year 1944
In World War II, the 73rd Bombardment Wing launched the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.
Year 1963
Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of John F. Kennedy, was assassinated by Jack Ruby at the Dallas Police Station.
Year 1969
Apollo 12 landed on the moon.
Year 1969
Guru Nanak University established at Amritsar, Punjab.
Year 1971
During a severe thunderstorm over Washington State, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
Year 1976
A devastating earthquake shook eastern Turkey. 4 to 5 thousand people died in it.
Year 1986
Legislators expelled from the House for the first time in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly.
Year 1988
First time Lok Sabha MP Lalduhoma disqualified under Anti defection law.
Year 1989
The entire leadership of the then Communist Party in Czechoslovakia resigned collectively to usher in a new era.
Year 1988
Mizoram became the first Lok Sabha member.
Year 1989
Tendulkar scores a record cricket test 50 aged 16 years 214 days.
Year 1991
Bihar's ruling JD makes a clean sweep of all the three Lok Sabha seats in the by-elections.
Year 1992
It was decided that Lok Sabha session would start with the national song "Vande Mataram" and end with National Anthem "Jana Gana Mana".
Year 1999
Kunjurani Devi of India won a silver medal at the World Weightlifting Championships held in Athens.
Year 2000
External maps of 545 km of the demarcation line between India and China exchanged for the first time, says External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh.
Year 2007
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif reached home after eight years of exile.
Year 2008
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, accused in the Malegaon bomb blast case, accused the ATS of showing obscene CDs.
Born 1806
William Webb Ellis, founder of rugby football.
Born 1877
Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police officer (d. 1941)
Born 1881
Ram Rachhpal, son of Sukhi Ram, called 'Chhotu', freedom fighter, politician and leader, was born in a 'Jat' famlily in a small village Garhi Sampla in Rohpak district. His life was a saga of sincere and ceaseless striving to improve the condition of the poor peasants in India, popularly known as 'Deenbandhu'.
Born 1899
Pandit Hiralal Shastri, great social worker, leader and first chief minister of Rajasthan state, was born at Jobner, Jaipur District.
Born 1914
Lynn Chadwick, British sculptor.
Born 1919
Mahipal, was an Indian film actor.
Born 1924
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman, famous political cartoonist, was born.
Born 1930
Chandrakant Trimbak Patankar, cricketer ( wicket keeper in one Test India vs NZ 1955-56), was born in Pen, Maharashtra.
Born 1935
Salim Khan, an Indian screenwriter.
Born 1943
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, an Indian economist, and civil servant.
Born 1944
Amol Palekar, an Indian actor, director, and producer.
Born 1941
Pete Best, Indian-English drummer, and lyricist.
Born 1948
Ashok Gandotra, cricketer (Two Tests for India 1969), was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Born 1952
Brijesh Parsuram Patel, cricketer (Indian batsman 1974-77), was born in Baroda.
Born 1955
Ian Botham, an English cricketer.
Born 1961
Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist, recipient of Booker Prize
Born 1992
Lok Sabha approves bill seeking to confer Indian citizenship to a child born to an Indian mother outside the country.
Died 1848
William Lamb, a British Whig statesman.
Died 1916
Hiram Maxim, inventor of the Maxim gun.
Died 1948
Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother’s Day.
Died 1963
Marotrao Kannamwar, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, passed away.
Died 1991
Freddie Mercury, a British singer, songwriter, record producer.
Died 1992
Theodore Miller Edison, an American businessman, inventor, and environmentalist.
Died 2004
Arthur Haley, world-renowned author.
Died 2014
Murli Deora, Indian politician.
Died 1973
E. V. Ramasami Naicker (EVR), founder leader of Dravida Kazhagam, passed away at the age of 94.
Died 1675
Guru Tegh Bahadur, Indian guru (b. 1621)
Died 2014
Murli Deora, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Corporate Affairs (b. 1937)