About November 24
November 24, 2025 is the 328th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 37 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 85 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 24
- 380 –Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
- 1429 –Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.
- 1542 –Battle of Solway Moss: The English army defeats the Scots.
- 1642 –Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen’s Land (later renamed Tasmania).
- 1835 –The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
- 1850 –Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
- 1859 –Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, the anniversary of which is sometimes called “Evolution Day”
- 1863 –American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain – Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
- 1922 –Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
- 1932 –In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
- 1940 –World War II: Slovakia becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
- 1943 –World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
- 1962 –The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
- 1963 –Vietnam War: Newly sworn-in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam both militarily and economically.
- 1965 –Joseph Désiré Mobutu seizes power in 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.
- 1966 –Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
- 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 lasted only four months.
- 1980 –Assassination of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador.
- 1992 –A China Southern Airlines domestic flight in the People’s Republic of China, crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
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