24 November on the globe: what happened in the world on this day, and who was born

Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.

An earthquake hits Syria, causing multiple casualties and damages in Antioch, Damascus and Mosul.

Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem.

Genghis Khan defeats the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus, completing the Mongol conquest of Central Asia.

Gąsawa massacre: At an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa, Polish Prince Leszek the White, Duke Henry the Bearded and others are attacked by assassins while bathing.

An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages.

Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father, Hugh IV of Cyprus, abdicates.

Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.

Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.

Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).

Thirty Years' War: Holy Roman Empire, Bavarian and Spanish forces led by Franz von Mercy defeated the French army in Germany led by Marshal Josias von Rantzau at the Battle of Tuttlingen.

Tarabai, regent of the Maratha Empire, imprisons Rajaram II of Satara for refusing to remove Balaji Baji Rao from the post of peshwa.

South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were null and void in the state, beginning the Nullification Crisis.

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).

Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.

British naturalist Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is published.

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.

Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.

A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.

In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.

The Podgorica Assembly convened in Montenegro, with the intention of uniting with the Kingdom of Serbia.

Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.

The Eugene O'Neill Theatre opened on Broadway, New York, with a production of the musical Mayflowers.

The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement officially begins when a group of mainly the former White Guard members, led by Vihtori Kosola, interrupted communism occasion at the Workers' House in Lapua, Finland.

In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.

The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.

World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.

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.

World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces.

World War II: At the battle of Makin the USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.

World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.

The "Great Appalachian Storm", a large extratropical cyclone, struck the east coast of the United States before moving northeast.

Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.

The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.

Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby on live television. Robert H. Jackson takes a photograph of the shooting that will win the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Photography.

Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of 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.

Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.

Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to land on the Moon.

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.

A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.

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.

The Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.

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.

Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches on STS-44.

China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashes on approach to Guilin Qifengling Airport in Guilin, China, killing all 141 people on board.

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.

The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, is founded in Bucharest, Romania.

A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.

Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.

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.

A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others.

An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.

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.

A terrorist attack on a Mosque in Al-Rawda, North Sinai, Egypt kills 311 people and injures 128.

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.

Hibiscus Rising, commemorating David Oluwale, is unveiled in Leeds.

Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and scholar (died 1677)

Zachary Taylor, American general and politician, 12th President of the United States (died 1850)

Dale Carnegie, American author and educator (died 1955)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator (died 1901)

Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist

Alexander Suvorov, Russian field marshal (died 1800)

Carlo Collodi, Italian journalist and author (died 1890)

Ted Bundy, American serial killer (died 1989)

Emir Kusturica, Serbian actor, director, and screenwriter

Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and clergyman (died 1768)

Simon van der Meer, Dutch-Swiss physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)

Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)

Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American novelist and playwright (died 1924)

Erich von Manstein, German field marshal (died 1973)

Katherine Heigl, American actress and producer

Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian and actor

Scott Joplin, American pianist and composer (died 1917)

Alben W. Barkley, American lawyer and politician, 35th Vice President of the United States (died 1956)

Najib Mikati, Lebanese businessman and politician, 31st Prime Minister of Lebanon

Pete Best, Indian-English drummer and songwriter

Charles I, Duke of Orléans (died 1465)

Charles XI of Sweden (died 1697)

Lucky Luciano, Italian-American mob boss (died 1962)

Sarah Hyland, American actress

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Ukrainian-Israeli historian and politician, 2nd President of Israel (died 1963)

Tom Odell, English singer-songwriter

Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and urban planner, designed Canberra (died 1937)

Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahraini politician, Prime Minister of Bahrain (died 2020)

Oscar Robertson, American basketball player and sportscaster

Maria Amalia of Saxony (died 1760)

Julius Martov, Russian politician (died 1923)

Alfred Schnittke, German-Russian journalist and composer (died 1998)

Ivi Adamou, Cypriot-Greek singer-songwriter

Nabil Bentaleb, Algerian footballer

Maria Luisa of Spain (died 1792)

Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (died 1951)

Nuruddin Farah, Somali novelist

Dwight Schultz, American actor

Carmelita Jeter, American sprinter "fastest woman alive".

Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (died 2005)

William F. Buckley Jr., American publisher and author, founded the National Review (died 2008)

Colin Hanks, American actor

Maria Höfl-Riesch, German skier

Libertad Lamarque, Argentinian actress and singer (died 2000)

Denise Crosby, American actress and producer

Garret Dillahunt, American actor

Shirley Henderson, Scottish actress

Julieta Venegas, American-Mexican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (died 1999)

Philip William, Elector Palatine (died 1690)

Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian-French author and playwright (died 2003)

Dave Bing, American basketball player and politician, 70th Mayor of Detroit

Thierry Lhermitte, French actor, producer, and screenwriter

Pedro León, Spanish footballer

Mario Gaspar, Spanish footballer

Philip Massinger, English dramatist (died 1640)

Teddy Wilson, American pianist and educator (died 1986)

Lola Glaudini, American actress

Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French priest and educator (died 1789)

Junípero Serra, Spanish priest and missionary (died 1784)