November 24 historical events
847 — An earthquake hits Syria, causing multiple casualties and damages in Antioch, Damascus and Mosul
The 847 Damascus earthquake occurred (probably on 24 November) in AD 847. Recent scholarship suggests that the earthquake was part of a multiple earthquake stretching from Damascus to the south, to Antioch in the north and to Mosul in the east. There were an estimated 20,000 casualties in Antioch according to the 13th-century historian and writer Al-Dhahabi, and 50,000 in Mosul.
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1008 — Song emperor Zhenzong performs the summit rite at Mount Tai
The Song emperor Zhenzong performed the Feng rite at the summit of Mount Tai, making an offering to Heaven. The associated Shan rite was held at Sheshou the following day.
November 24 follows the Julian date for the xinhai day of the tenth lunar month in 1008. The proleptic Gregorian date is November 30.
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1190 — Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem
Conrad of Montferrat (c. 1146 – 28 April 1192) was an Italian nobleman, one of the major participants in the Third Crusade. He was the de facto King of Jerusalem (as Conrad I) by virtue of his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem from 24 November 1190, but officially elected only in 1192, days before his death. He was also the eighth Marquess of Montferrat from 1191.
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1202 — Siege of Zara
The siege of Zara or siege of Zadar (Croatian: opsada Zadra; Hungarian: Zára ostroma; 10–24 November 1202) was the first major action of the Fourth Crusade and the first attack against a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders. The crusaders had an agreement with Venice for transport across the sea, but the price far exceeded what they were able to pay.
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1221 — Battle of the Indus
The Battle of the Indus was fought on the banks of the Indus River, on 24 November 1221, between the armies commanded by Jalal al-Din of the Khwarazmian Empire, and Genghis Khan of the Mongol Empire. The battle, which resulted in an overwhelming Mongol victory, was the concluding engagement in the Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire.
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1221 — Mongol invasions of India
The Mongol Empire launched numerous invasions into the Indian subcontinent from 1221 to 1327, with many of the later raids made by the Qara'unas of Mongol origin. The Mongols occupied parts of the subcontinent for decades. As the Mongols progressed into the Indian hinterland and reached the outskirts of Delhi, the Delhi Sultanate of India led a campaign against them in which the Mongol army suffered serious defeats.
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1227 — 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
The Gąsawa massacre (Polish: Zbrodnia gąsawska, lit. 'Gąsawa crime') was an attack on the night of 23-24 November 1227, during a council of Polish Piast dukes that was being held near the village of Gąsawa in Kuyavia, Poland. The High Duke of Poland, Leszek the White, was assassinated, and Duke Henry the Bearded of Silesia was gravely wounded.
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1429 — Siege of La Charité
The siege of La Charité was incited by the order of Charles VII to Joan of Arc after the warlord Perrinet Gressard seized the town in 1423. La Charité was not only strongly fortified, but fully victualled for a prolonged siege. Joan's forces were known to be poorly equipped with artillery. On November 7, 1429, the people of Clermont were addressed with a letter asking the town to send supplies to Joan's army for the siege.
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1542 — Battle of Solway Moss
The Battle of Solway Moss took place on Solway Moss near the River Esk on the English side of the Anglo-Scottish border in November 1542 between English and Scottish forces. The Scottish King James V had refused to break from the Catholic Church, as urged by his uncle King Henry VIII, who then launched a major raid into south-west Scotland.
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1642 — Abel Tasman’s expedition sights Tasmania
Abel Tasman’s expedition sighted the island’s west coast north of Macquarie Harbour. The expedition later landed elsewhere on the island, which was already home to Aboriginal peoples.
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1689 — Raid on Newry
The raid on Newry took place in November 1689 during the Williamite War in Ireland when a Franco-Irish force loyal to James II attacked the Williamite garrison of Newry in County Down. The raid was carried out by the French Major General Alexandre de Rainier de Droue, Marquis de Boisseleau a French officer serving with James' Irish Army. It was largely unsuccessful, and the Jacobite forces withdrew having suffered casualties.
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1740 — Attacks on Fuerteventura in 1740
The 1740 attacks on the island of Fuerteventura, also known as the Battles of El Cuchillete and Tamasite (Spanish: Batallas de El Cuchillete y Tamasite), by English privateers took place within a month of one another, and were both put down with little trouble by the island's militia. They coincided with the Anglo-Spanish war of 1739.
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1762 — Spanish invasion of Portugal (1762)
The Spanish invasion of Portugal between 5 May and 24 November 1762 was a main military episode of the wider Seven Years' War, where Spain and France were heavily defeated by the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance (including broad popular resistance). It initially involved the forces of Spain and Portugal, before the French and British intervened in the conflict on the side of their respective allies. The war was also strongly marked by a national guerilla warfare in the mountainous country, cutting off supplies from Spain and a hostile peasantry that enforced a scorched earth policy as the invading armies approached, leaving the invaders starving and short of military supplies.
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1784 — 1784 Maryland gubernatorial election
The 1784 Maryland gubernatorial election was held on November 24, 1784, in order to elect the Governor of Maryland. Incumbent Governor William Paca was easily re-elected by the Maryland General Assembly as he ran unopposed. The exact results of this election are unknown.
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1788 — 1788–89 United States House of Representatives elections
The 1788–89 United States House of Representatives elections were the first U.S. House of Representatives elections following the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. Each state set its own date for its congressional elections, ranging from November 24, 1788, to March 5, 1789, before or after the first session of the 1st United States Congress convened on March 4, 1789.
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1795 — Battle of Loano
The Battle of Loano (23–24 November 1795) saw the French Army of Italy led by General of Division (GD) Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer attack the Allied armies of Habsburg Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont led by Feldzeugmeister (FZM) Olivier, Count of Wallis during the War of the First Coalition. The assault took the Austrians by surprise since it occurred so late in the year.
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1798 — Battle of Amritsar (1798)
The Battle of Amritsar was fought on 24 November 1798 between the Sikh forces led by Ranjit Singh and the Afghan forces led by Zaman Shah Durrani.
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1803 — 1803 Georgia gubernatorial election
The 1803 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on November 24, 1803, in order to elect the governor of Georgia. Incumbent Democratic-Republican governor John Milledge won re-election against Solomon Wood in a Georgia General Assembly vote.
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1804 — 1804 North Carolina gubernatorial election
The 1804 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 24, 1804, in order to elect the governor of North Carolina. Incumbent Democratic-Republican governor James Turner was re-elected by the North Carolina General Assembly as he ran unopposed.
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1805 — Battle of Castelfranco Veneto
In the Battle of Castelfranco Veneto (24 November 1805), two divisions of the French Army of Italy confronted an Austrian brigade led by Prince Louis Victor de Rohan-Guéméné. The Austrians had made a remarkable march from deep in the Alps to the plains of northern Italy. But, caught between the divisions of Jean Reynier and Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Rohan surrendered his command after failing to fight his way out. The event occurred during the War of the Third Coalition, part of the Napoleonic Wars. Castelfranco Veneto is located 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Venice.
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1807 — 1807 North Carolina gubernatorial election
The 1807 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 24, 1807, in order to elect the governor of North Carolina. Former Federalist Governor Benjamin Williams was elected by the North Carolina General Assembly against incumbent Democratic-Republican governor Nathaniel Alexander and Democratic-Republican candidate and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 12th district Joseph Winston.
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1818 — 1818 North Carolina gubernatorial election
The 1818 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 24, 1818, in order to elect the governor of North Carolina. Incumbent Democratic-Republican governor John Branch was re-elected by the North Carolina General Assembly as he ran unopposed.
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1819 — 1819 North Carolina gubernatorial election
The 1819 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 24, 1819, in order to elect the governor of North Carolina. Incumbent Democratic-Republican governor John Branch was re-elected by the North Carolina General Assembly as he ran unopposed. The exact number of votes cast in this election is unknown.
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1826 — Battle of Arachova
The Battle of Arachova occurred between November 18 and November 24, 1826 between forces under the command of Mustafa Bey and Greek irregulars under Georgios Karaiskakis. After leaving the camp at Athens, Karaiskakis moved his army to Rumeli, with the intention of cutting off Ottoman supply lines. On November 18, he encountered an Ottoman army of Mustafa Bey, which was ultimately defeated. The Ottomans were driven from Arachova and suffered considerable casualties in the process, numbering around at 2,000, close to the entire Ottoman combatant figure.
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1827 — 1827 French legislative election
Legislative elections were held in France on 17 and 24 November 1827. The Ultra-royalists loyal to Charles X of France lost the elections.
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1828 — Battle of Cruces
The battle of Cruces was a naval confrontation between the Peruvian and the Gran Colombian navy which occurred from 22 to 24 November 1828. The following blockade of the port of Guayaquil by the Peruvian Navy proved decisive in obtaining maritime dominance during the war and subsequently marked the end of the naval campaign between Peru and Gran-Colombia.
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1834 — 1834 North Carolina gubernatorial election
The 1834 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 24, 1834, in order to elect the governor of North Carolina. Incumbent Whig governor David L. Swain was re-elected by the North Carolina General Assembly against Democratic candidate and incumbent member of the North Carolina Senate William Dunn Moseley.
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1838 — Battle of Callao (1838)
The Battle of Callao was a confrontation during the War of the Confederation, between the Chilean blockade of Callao under the command of Commander Bynnon and the Confederate privateer fleet under Jean Blanchet.
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1847 — Affair at Galaxara Pass
Affair at Galaxara Pass, November 24, 1847, was a U.S. Army victory of Gen. Joseph Lane, over the Mexican Army Light Corps, an irregular force under Gen. Joaquín Rea. The Light Corps had been the principal force harassing the U.S. Army line of communications on the National Road during Scott's campaign against Mexico City during the Mexican–American War.
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1850 — Battle of Lottorf
The Battle of Lottorf was fought between Denmark, and Schleswig-Holstein, on November 24, 1850, at Lottorf in Schleswig-Holstein, during the First Schleswig War. Denmark won the battle.
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1859 — Release of On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life is a work of scientific literature by the English naturalist Charles Darwin that is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. It was published on 24 November 1859.
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1862 — South Australia holds the final polls of its 1862 Assembly election
The last scheduled polls for South Australia’s House of Assembly took place after earlier rounds on November 10 and 17. The election followed a redistribution that created 18 two-member districts.
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1863 — Battle of Kingston
The Battle of Kingston (November 24, 1863) saw Major General Joseph Wheeler with two divisions of Confederate cavalry attempt to overcome the Union garrison of Kingston, Tennessee, led by Colonel Robert K. Byrd. The Confederates mistakenly believed that the Kingston garrison was weak, but in fact, it comprised a brigade of infantry and a regiment of mounted infantry.
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1863 — Battle of Lookout Mountain
The Battle of Lookout Mountain, also known as the Battle Above the Clouds, was fought November 24, 1863, as part of the Chattanooga campaign of the American Civil War. Union forces under Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker assaulted Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and defeated Confederate forces commanded by Maj. Gen. Carter L. Stevenson.
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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
Lookout Mountain is a mountain ridge at the northwest corner of the U.S. state of Georgia, the northeast corner of Alabama, and along the southeastern Tennessee state line in Chattanooga. Lookout Mountain was the scene of the 18th-century "Last Battle of the Cherokees" in this area during the Nickajack Expedition. On November 24, 1863, during the American Civil War, the Battle of Lookout Mountain took place here.
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1864 — Battle of Columbia
The Battle of Columbia was a series of military actions that took place November 24–29, 1864, in Maury County, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. It concluded the movement of Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee from the Tennessee River in northern Alabama to Columbia, Tennessee, and across the Duck River. A Union force under Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield skirmished with Hood's cavalry, commanded by Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, and fortified a defensive line south of Columbia, but soon withdrew north across the Duck River, abandoning the town.
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1865 — Tanori's Raid
Tanorori's Raid occurred when a force of about 350 Opata volunteers, under the command of Colonel Refugio Tánori, attacked the ranching community of San Rafael, Arizona. The raid was an attempt to capture Sonora Governor Ignacio Pesqueira.
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1870 — Siege of Thionville (1870)
The siege of Thionville took place within the Franco-Prussian War. It occurred in Thionville of the Moselle from 13 to 24 November 1870. The small French garrison repulsed an attempted attack on 14 August. The garrison was subjected to a blockade and then besieged from 13 November. After the capitulation of Metz, on 28 October 1870, the Prussians moved part of their powerful artillery to Thionville.
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1874 — Birkenhead by-election, 1874
The Birkenhead by-election of 1874 was fought on 24 November 1874. The byelection was fought due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, John Laird. It was won by the Conservative candidate David MacIver.
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1874 — Joseph Glidden receives a U.S. patent for his barbed-wire design
The United States issued Joseph Glidden patent No. 157,124 for a wire fence design. It used twisted strands to hold sharp barbs in place, making the wire suitable for enclosing livestock.
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1877 — Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published
Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was written from a horse as main character's perspective. She wrote it in the last years of her life, during which she was bedridden and seriously ill. The novel became an immediate best-seller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, but having lived long enough to see her only novel become a success.
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1880 — 1880 Invercargill mayoral election
The 1880 Invercargill mayoral election was held on 24 November 1880. Nicholas Johnson defeated former mayor Joseph Hatch and councillor John Kingsland.
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1880 — 1880 Wellington mayoral election
The 1880 Wellington mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year to decide who would take the office of Mayor of Wellington.
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1884 — Siege of Tuyên Quang
The siege of Tuyên Quang was an important confrontation between the French and the Chinese armies in Tonkin (northern Vietnam) during the Sino-French War (August 1884 – April 1885). A French garrison of 619 men, including two companies of the French Foreign Legion, successfully defended the French post of Tuyên Quang against vastly outnumbering Chinese forces in a four-month siege from 24 November 1884 to 3 March 1885.
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1886 — 1886 Invercargill mayoral election
The 1886 Invercargill mayoral election was held on 24 November 1886. Incumbent mayor John Lyon McDonald was defeated by David Roche.
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1886 — 1886 Wellington mayoral election
The 1886 Wellington mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year to decide who would take the office of Mayor of Wellington.
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1894 — Establishment of Revive China Society
The Revive China Society (traditional Chinese: 興中會; simplified Chinese: 兴中会; pinyin: Xīngzhōnghuì), also known as the Society for Regenerating China or the Proper China Society was founded by Sun Yat-sen on 24 November 1894 to forward the goal of establishing prosperity for China and as a platform for future revolutionary activities, as well as the first major modern revolutionary group in Chinese history.
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1897 — 1897 Wellington mayoral election
The 1897 Wellington mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
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1912 — Battle of Chios (1912)
The Battle of Chios took place from 24 November 1912 to 3 January 1913 during the First Balkan War. It resulted in the capture of the eastern Aegean island of Chios by the Kingdom of Greece, ending almost 350 years of rule by the Ottoman Empire. The occupation of the island was a prolonged affair.
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1914 — Defence of Festubert
The Defence of Festubert (23–24 November 1914) was an engagement on the Western Front early in the First World War when Indian and British battalions of the 7th (Meerut) Division of the Indian Army defended the village of Festubert against a German attack. It was one of the first actions in the war in which an operation was conducted against a prepared defensive position.
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1915 — Kosovo offensive (1915)
The Kosovo offensive of 1915 (Bulgarian: Косовска настъпателна операция; German:Verfolgungskämpfe im Kosovo) was a World War I offensive launched as part of the Serbian campaign of 1915. It involved the Central Powers (German, Austro-Hungarian, and Bulgarian units under the command of Prussian Field Marshal Mackensen) and the Kingdom of Serbia.
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1917 — Milwaukee Police Department bombing
The Milwaukee Police Department bombing was a November 24, 1917, bomb attack that killed nine members of local law enforcement and a civilian in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The perpetrators were never caught but are suspected to be an anarchist terrorist cell operating in the United States in the early 20th century.
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1917 — Battle of Nebi Samwil
The Battle of Nebi Samwil (17–24 November 1917) was fought during the decisive British Empire victory at the Battle of Jerusalem between the forces of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and the Ottoman Empire's Yildirim Army Group during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, in the First World War.
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1920 — Battle of Fadıl
The Battle of Fadıl took place between Turkish National Forces and the French Third Republic during the Franco-Turkish War.
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1925 — Battle of Rashaya
The Battle of Rashaya was a four-day battle fought at the citadel of Rashaya on 20 – 24 November 1925 between Druze rebels and the French Army of the Levant during the Great Syrian Revolt against French Mandatory rule.
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1935 — 1935 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship final
The 1935 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final was the fourth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1935 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, an inter-county camogie tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The home team won by a single point.
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1940 — Slovakia joins the Tripartite Pact
On November 24, 1940, Slovak prime minister and foreign minister Vojtech Tuka signed Slovakia’s accession to the Tripartite Pact in Berlin. Germany, Italy and Japan had signed the original agreement on September 27. Slovakia joined after Hungary on November 20 and Romania on November 23, extending the Axis alliance during the Second World War.
November 24 marks Slovakia’s accession; the original three-power agreement was signed on September 27.
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1942 — 1942 Sioux Falls mayoral special election
The 1942 Sioux Falls mayoral special election took place on November 24, 1942, following a primary election on November 17, 1942. Incumbent Mayor John T. McKee died on August 31, 1942, elevating City Commissioner Joseph S. Nelson as acting Mayor until a special election could be held. The special election was held to fill the remaining two years of McKee's term.
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1942 — Case Blue
Case Blue (German: Fall Blau) was the Wehrmacht's plan for the 1942 summer offensive in southern Russia between 28 June and 24 November 1942, during World War II. The objective was to capture the oil fields of Baku (Azerbaijan SSR), Grozny and Maikop, to enable the Germans to obtain fuel and also to deny it to the Soviet Union, bringing about the complete collapse of the Soviet war effort.
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1943 — Battle of Makin
The Battle of Makin was an engagement of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought from 20 to 24 November 1943 on Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands.
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1944 — The Baltic strategic offensive reaches its recorded end date
The Baltic strategic offensive ended on 24 November 1944. Its final component, the Moonsund landing operation, involved Soviet operations against German forces on the Estonian islands of Hiiumaa, Saaremaa and Muhu.
This records the campaign’s end date and its final island operation, not a claim that all Baltic fighting ended that day.
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1944 — Marianas-based B-29s carry out their first raid on Tokyo
U.S. B-29 bombers based in the Mariana Islands attacked Tokyo for the first time. The raid targeted an aircraft factory on the city’s outskirts, though cloud cover led some crews to drop their bombs elsewhere.
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1948 — 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état
The 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état took place on 24 November 1948, when Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez overthrew the elected president Rómulo Gallegos. Gallegos had been elected in the Venezuelan presidential election, 1947 (generally believed to be the country's first honest election) and taken office in February 1948. Chalbaud had been Gallegos' Minister of Defense.
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1951 — China issues its first radio calisthenics routine
China issued a standard set of exercises for its radio calisthenics programme. The routine was designed so people could follow along together to broadcast instructions.
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1953 — 1953 Yugoslavian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Yugoslavia between 22 and 24 November 1953. Candidates backed by the LCY-dominated Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia won every seat.
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1962 — The BBC debuts That Was the Week That Was
BBC Television aired the first episode of its weekly satire programme, presented by David Frost.
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1963 — Death of Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was a U.S. Marine veteran, who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963. Oswald was placed in juvenile detention at age twelve for truancy, during which he was assessed by a psychiatrist as "emotionally disturbed" because of the lack of normal family life.
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1964 — Operation Dragon Rouge
Operation Dragon Rouge (French: Opération Dragon Rouge, IPA: [ɔpeɾasjõ dɾagõ ɾuʒə], meaning "Operation Red Dragon") was a hostage rescue operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo conducted jointly by Belgium and the United States in 1964. The operation was led by the Belgian Paracommando Regiment to rescue hostages held by Simba rebels in the city of Stanleyville.
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1965 — 1965 Australia Cup final
The 1965 Australia Cup final was the fourth Australia Cup Final, the final match of the 1965 Australia Cup. It was played at Sydney Showground in Sydney, Australia, on 24 November 1965, contested by Sydney Hakoah and APIA Leichhardt.
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1965 — 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
Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa za Banga ( mə-BOO-too SESS-ay SEK-oh; born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997), often shortened to Mobutu Sese Seko or Mobutu and also known by his initials MSS, was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the first and only president of Zaire from 1971 to 1997.
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1966 — TABSO Flight 101
TABSO Flight 101 was a scheduled service of the Bulgarian national airline from Sofia, Bulgaria, via Budapest, Hungary, and Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Berlin Schönefeld Airport in East Germany. The service was operated by the airline's 1960s' flagship equipment, the Ilyushin Il-18B airliner. On Thursday 24 November 1966, due to bad weather the aircraft was diverted to Bratislava airport, but when the flight resumed, the aircraft crashed into the surrounding hills shortly after takeoff, with the loss of 82 lives.
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1969 — The Hang Seng Index launches in Hong Kong
Hang Seng Bank launched the Hang Seng Index to track the performance of major companies listed on the Hong Kong stock market.
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1970 — China and Ethiopia establish diplomatic relations
Representatives of the People's Republic of China and the Ethiopian Empire signed a joint communiqué in Addis Ababa establishing diplomatic relations.
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1971 — D. B. Cooper hijacks a Northwest Orient flight
A passenger using the name Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient flight from Portland to Seattle. After receiving ransom in Seattle, he parachuted from the aircraft during a subsequent leg and disappeared.
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1974 — Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the Lucy hominin skeleton in Ethiopia
Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discovered the fossil hominin skeleton later nicknamed Lucy at Hadar, Ethiopia, on November 24, 1974. About 40 percent of the skeleton was recovered. It was later described as the first known member of Australopithecus afarensis.
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1974 — The fossil skeleton known as Lucy is discovered
Donald Johanson and Tom Gray found parts of a roughly 3.2-million-year-old skeleton at Hadar, Ethiopia. The fossil was nicknamed Lucy and later assigned to the species Australopithecus afarensis.
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1976 — The Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake strikes eastern Turkey
On 24 November 1976, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck eastern Turkey. A contemporary field study reported that more than 80% of dwellings were destroyed within a 2,000-square-kilometre area and that more than 4,000 people died.
The 80% figure refers to the severe-damage area, rather than the whole of eastern Turkey.
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1980 — 1980 Australian Open
The 1980 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club in Melbourne, Australia. It was the 69th edition of the Australian Open. The women's tournament was held 24–30 November 1980 and the men's was held from 26 December 1980 through 4 January 1981. The singles titles were won by American Brian Teacher and Czechoslovak Hana Mandlíková.
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1980 — 1980 Tobago House of Assembly election
House of Assembly elections were held on 24 November 1980 to elect the twelve members of the Tobago House of Assembly. The Democratic Action Congress won eight seats with 53.14% of the vote, while the People's National Movement won four seats with 44.65% of the vote.
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1982 — November 1982 Irish general election
The November 1982 Irish general election to the 24th Dáil was held on Wednesday, 24 November, three weeks after the dissolution of the 23rd Dáil on 4 November by President Patrick Hillery, on the request of Taoiseach Charles Haughey following a defeat of the government in a motion of confidence. The general election took place in 41 Dáil constituencies throughout Ireland for 166 seats in Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas.
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1983 — Starrcade '83: A Flare for the Gold
Starrcade '83: A Flare for the Gold was the first annual Starrcade professional wrestling event, produced under the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) banner by Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP). The event took place on November 24, 1983, at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex in Greensboro, North Carolina and was broadcast on closed-circuit television around the Southern United States. Eight matches were contested at the event.
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1984 — 1984 Ms. Olympia
The 1984 Ms. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition was held on November 24, 1984, at the Place des Arts in Montreal, Quebec. It was the 5th Ms. Olympia competition held.
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1985 — Honduran general election, 1985
A general election was held in Honduras on November 24, 1985. Voters went to the polls to elect a new President of the Republic and a new Congress.
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1985 — 1985 Galician regional election
A regional election was held in Galicia on 24 November 1985 to elect the 2nd Parliament of the autonomous community. All 71 seats in the Parliament were up for election.
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1988 — Survivor Series (1988)
The 1988 Survivor Series was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the second annual Survivor Series and took place on Thanksgiving Day in the United States on Thursday, November 24, 1988, at the Richfield Coliseum in Richfield Township, Ohio for the second consecutive year.
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1989 — 24 November 1989 Lebanese presidential election
An indirect presidential election was held in the Parliament of Lebanon on 24 November 1989, resulting in Deputy Elias Hrawi being elected President of the Lebanese Republic. By convention, the presidency is always attributed to a Maronite Christian. Under the article 49 of the Lebanese Constitution, a qualified majority of two-thirds of the members of the then 99-seat Lebanese Parliament is required to elect the president in the first round.
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1990 — 1990 Plzeň municipal election
Plzeň municipal election in 1990 was held as part of 1990 Czech municipal elections. It was held on 24 November 1990. Civic Forum has won the highest number of votes. Civic Forum then formed coalition with Social Democrats and Christian Democrats. Zdeněk Mraček became Mayor of Plzeň.
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1990 — 1990 Prague municipal election
The 1990 Prague municipal election was held as part of 1990 Czech municipal elections. It was the first election since Velvet Revolution. Civic Forum led by Jaroslav Kořán won the election.
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1990 — 1990 Ms. Olympia
The 1990 Ms. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition that was held on November 24, 1990, in New York City, New York. It was the 11th Ms. Olympia competition held.
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1991 — 1991 Tajik presidential election
Presidential elections were held for the first time in Tajikistan on 24 November 1991. The result was a victory for Rahmon Nabiyev of the Communist Party of Tajikistan, who received 60% of the vote. Voter turnout was 86.5%.
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1991 — Battle for Antunovac
The Battle of Antunovac was a battle during the Croatian War of Independence. Fought between 20 November and 24 November 1991. It was fought between Croatia, and SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia which was supported by the Yugoslav People's Army. In the late afternoon of November 24, 1991, Antunovac was captured by the forces of the JNA and rebel Serbs.
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1991 — STS-44
STS-44 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission using Atlantis that launched on November 24, 1991. It was a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) space mission.
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1992 — China Southern Airlines Flight 3943
China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 was a China Southern Airlines flight from the former Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Guangzhou to Guilin Qifengling Airport, Guilin, China. On 24 November 1992, the Boeing 737-300 crashed on a mountain while descending to Guilin Airport, killing all 141 people aboard.
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1992 — 1992 United States Senate election in Georgia
The 1992 United States Senate election in Georgia was held on November 3, 1992. In the general election, which occurred simultaneously with the presidential election, incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Wyche Fowler received more votes, but did not achieve a simple majority. Under Georgia law, this demanded a runoff. Paul Coverdell, the former Director of the Peace Corps, edged out Fowler in the November 24 runoff by a narrow margin, flipping the seat to the Republicans.
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1992 — U.S. Naval Station Subic Bay closes
The last U.S. Navy ship departed Subic Bay and the base officially closed, ending the U.S. Navy’s presence at the Philippine installation.
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1993 — Survivor Series (1993)
Survivor Series (1993) was the seventh annual Survivor Series pay-per-view professional wrestling event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on Thanksgiving Eve, November 24, 1993, at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. The event consisted of four tag-team elimination matches and a bout for the Smoky Mountain Wrestling Tag Team Championship. The main event match saw the All-Americans, a team of face wrestlers from the United States, competing against the Foreign Fanatics, a team of heels that represented other countries. The All-Americans won the match when Lex Luger was the last man remaining.
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1993 — 1993 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
Elections to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held in November 1993. The Indian National Congress won a majority of seats and Digvijaya Singh was sworn in as the new Chief Minister.
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1996 — 1996 Scottish League Cup final
The 1996 Scottish League Cup final was a football match played at Celtic Park, Glasgow, on 24 November 1996. It was the final of the 51st Scottish League Cup competition. The final was contested by Rangers and Heart of Midlothian, who had also been the participants in the 1996 Scottish Cup Final in May of that year.
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1996 — World War 3 (1996)
The 1996 World War 3 was the second World War 3 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). The event took place on November 24, 1996, from the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia. Similar to the Royal Rumble format, this event marked for the first time that the winner of the World War 3 battle royal would receive a future title shot at the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
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1996 — 1996 Nagorno-Karabakh presidential election
Presidential elections were held in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic on 24 November 1996. The result was a victory for independent candidate Robert Kocharyan, who received 89% of the vote.
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1998 — 1998 Libyan Super Cup
The 1998 Libyan Super Cup was a football match that took place on Tuesday, November 24, 1998, between LPL winners Al Mahallah and Libyan Al Fatah Cup winners Al Shat. This was the second edition of the competition, and as this was an all-Tripoli final, the match was played at the 11 June Stadium. Al Mahallah won the match 3–1, and claimed the second Super Cup title.
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1998 — America Online announces its plan to buy Netscape
America Online announced a stock deal to acquire Netscape Communications. The acquisition closed in March 1999.
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1999 — Jersey elects its parish deputies in 1999
Jersey held the deputy phase of its general election. Among those elected was Lyndon Farnham, who became a deputy for St Saviour.
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2000 — 2000 Cambodian coup d'état attempt
On 24 November 2000, the Cambodian Freedom Fighters unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow the government of Cambodia in a failed coup d'état. In what the group termed the "Operation Volcano" plot, dozens of rebels attacked government buildings in Phnom Penh in an attempt to depose Hun Sen's government.
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2001 — Crossair Flight 3597
Crossair Flight LX 3597 was a scheduled flight from Berlin Tegel Airport, in Germany, to Zürich Airport, in Switzerland. On 24 November 2001, the Crossair Avro RJ100 operating the route, registration HB-IXM, crashed into a wooded range of hills near Bassersdorf and exploded, killing 24 of the 33 people on board.
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2002 — Austrian legislative election, 2002
Early parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 24 November 2002, after internal divisions in the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) culminating in the Knittelfeld Putsch led to the resignation of several leading FPÖ members. The result was a victory for the ÖVP, which won 79 of the 183 seats, the first time it had been the largest party in the National Council since 1966. It continued its coalition government with the FPÖ, which had lost almost two-thirds of its seats. Voter turnout was 84.3%.
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2003 — 2003 Northwest Territories general election
The 2003 Northwest Territories general election was held on November 24, 2003, to elect the 19 members of the Legislative Assembly. The election was called on October 27. Premier Stephen Kakfwi had previously chosen not to run. The territory operates on a consensus government system with no political parties; the premier is subsequently chosen by and from the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs).
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2005 — 2005 Vietnamese football match-fixing scandal
The 2005 Vietnamese football match-fixing scandal, also known as the "Disgrace of Bacolod" or the Bacolod scandal, occurred during the Vietnam under-23 football team vs. Myanmar under-23 football team match on 24 November 2005, in the third round of the 2005 SEA Games Men's football event in Bacolod, Philippines. Several Vietnamese players were found to have intentionally underperformed in exchange for payments from a gambling syndicate, leading to criminal charges and suspensions.
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2007 — Australian federal election, 2007
The Federal election for the 42nd Parliament of Australia was held on Saturday 24 November 2007 after a 39-day campaign, in which 13.6 million Australians were enrolled to vote. All 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 of the seats in the 76-member Senate were contested in the election. The centre-left Australian Labor Party opposition, led by Kevin Rudd and deputy leader Julia Gillard, defeated by landslide the incumbent centre-right Coalition government, led by Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister, John Howard, and Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister, Mark Vaile. The Coalition had been in power since the 1996 election.
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2007 — 2007 Australian House of Representatives election
The following tables show state-by-state results in the Australian House of Representatives at the 2007 federal election, 83 Labor, 65 coalition (55 Liberal, 10 National), 2 independent. Detailed results for all 150 seats are also available. The Nationals were reduced to nine seats and the coalition to 64 when independent Rob Oakeshott won the 2008 Lyne by-election.
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2007 — 2007 Australian Senate election
The following tables show state-by-state results in the Australian Senate at the 2007 federal election, 37 Coalition (32 Liberal, four National, one CLP), 32 Labor, five Green, one Family First, and one independent, Nick Xenophon. Senators are elected for six-year terms, and took their seats from 1 July 2008, but senators representing the territories have three-year terms and take their seats immediately.
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2007 — Operation Imposing Law
Operation Imposing Law, also known as Operation Law and Order (Arabic: عملية القانون والنظام, romanized: amaliat al-qaanoon wa an-nazaam), Operation Fardh al-Qanoon (Arabic: فرض القانون) or Baghdad Security Plan (BSP), was a joint Coalition-Iraqi security plan conducted throughout Baghdad. Under the Surge plan developed in late 2006, Baghdad was to be divided into nine zones, with Iraqi and American soldiers working side by side to clear each sector of Shiite militias and Sunni insurgents and establish Joint Security Stations so that reconstruction programs could begin in safety.
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2009 — The Avdhela Project launches in Bucharest
On 24 November 2009, the Avdhela Project launched in Bucharest, Romania. Developed by the Predania Association, the digital library and cultural initiative collects and makes available academic works about the Aromanians.
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2010 — 2010 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election
An election was held on 24 November 2010 to choose a new president of the Senate of the Czech Republic. Milan Štěch became the new president.
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2011 — Gambian presidential election, 2011
Presidential elections were held in the Gambia on 24 November 2011. The incumbent Yahya Jammeh (in office since seizing power in a coup d'état in 1994) faced Ousainou Darboe of the United Democratic Party and Hamat Bah of the National Alliance for Democracy and Development. Voting took place using marbles dropped into coloured containers each containing a gong.
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2012 — 2012 Dhaka garment factory fire
The 2012 Dhaka garment factory fire broke out on 24 November 2012, in the Tazreen Fashion factory in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. At least 117 people were confirmed dead in the fire, and over 200 were injured, making it the deadliest factory fire in the nation's history. The cause of the fire was not determined.
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2012 — 2012 Green Party (Czech Republic) leadership election
The Green Party (SZ) leadership election of 2012 was held on 24 November 2012. Incumbent Ondřej Liška saw competition from former Party Leader Martin Bursík. Liška defeated Bursík and remained the Leader.
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2012 — The line opened on 24 November 2012
Line 1 of the Hangzhou Metro (Chinese: 杭州地铁一号线; pinyin: Hángzhōu Dìtiě Yī Hào Xiàn) is an arc-shaped rapid transit line running from Xianghu station in western Xiaoshan District to Xiaoshan International Airport in eastern Xiaoshan District, passing through downtown Hangzhou. The line opened on 24 November 2012. It is the oldest in the city's metro network. The line is 52 km (32 mi) long with 33 stations.
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2013 — Malian parliamentary election, 2013
Parliamentary elections were held in Mali on 24 November 2013. They had originally been planned for 1 and 22 July 2012,but were cancelled after the coup d'état in 2012 as a result and affected by the Tuareg Rebellion. In July 2013, gunmen abducted two election officials a week before the presidential elections, which are the first elections since the military coup in 2012. Results from the first round of voting were indecisive; meaning that a second round of voting was held on 15 December 2013. President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta's RPM party won 115 of the 147 seats in the National Assembly.
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2013 — Honduran general election, 2013
General elections were held in Honduras on November 24, 2013. Voters went to the polls to elect: * A new President of Honduras to serve a four-year term starting January 27, 2014 along with the 3 respective Vice Presidents; * 128 members to serve four-year terms in the National Congress; * 298 Mayors and vice-mayors and their respective councilors; and * 20 representatives to the Central American Parliament. The closely watched presidential election saw a field of eight candidates vying to succeed outgoing President Porfirio Lobo Sosa, who is not eligible to run for re-election.
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2013 — Caravana de Campeones (November 2013)
The Caravana de Campeones (November 2013), Spanish for "Caravan of Champions", was a major professional wrestling show produced and scripted by the Mexican Lucha libre promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG). The event took place on November 24, 2013 in IWRG's main arena Arena Naucalpan. The November 2013 version of the event was the seventh overall show IWRG has held under the Caravana de Campeones banner. The show featured five championship matches in total, which all ended with the champion successfully retaining their championships. In the main event Oficial 911 defeated El Hijo del Máscara Año 2000 by disqualification to retain the IWRG Rey del Ring Championship.
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2013 — Survivor Series (2013)
Survivor Series (2013) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by WWE. It took place on November 24, 2013 at the TD Garden in Boston, and is the 27th annual Survivor Series show. It was the 11th pay-per-view in the 2013 lineup. The pay-per-view was the worst-selling edition of Survivor Series since the event's inception in 1987; this has been attributed to a weak buildup. The show has been cited as the worst Survivor Series in its history. It received 179,000 buys, down from 212,000 for the previous year's event; and attracted more than 100,000 fewer orders than the 2011 event, which generated 281,000 buys.
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2013 — 2013 Greater Geelong mayoral by-election
A by-election for the City of Greater Geelong mayor occurred on 24 November 2013. This by-election was triggered by the resignation of Geelong's first directly elected mayor Keith Fagg and saw Darryn Lyons of the Liberal Party become Geelong's second directly elected mayor with a first-preference vote of 29.79%. Lyons' nearest rival, Stephanie Asher, achieved a primary vote of 14.43%.
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2013 — 2013 Norwegian Football Cup final
The 2013 Norwegian Football Cup final was the 108th final of the Norwegian Football Cup. The final was contested by Rosenborg and Molde and took place on 24 November 2013 at Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo.
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2013 — Iran and six countries reach an interim nuclear agreement
Iran and six countries reached an interim nuclear agreement in Geneva. Iran agreed to temporary limits and monitoring on parts of its nuclear program in exchange for limited sanctions relief while talks on a broader agreement continued.
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2014 — Battle of Kikla (2014)
The Battle of Kikla was a confrontation between Zintan Brigades and Fajr Libya in Kikla, Libya between 11 October and 24 November 2014.
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2015 — 2015 Tunis bombing
On 24 November 2015, a bus carrying Tunisian presidential guards exploded, killing 12, on a principal road in Tunis, Tunisia. ISIL claimed responsibility for the attack. The bomber, who also died in the attack, was identified as Houssem Abdelli.
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2015 — 2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown
A Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M bomber aircraft near the Syria–Turkey border on 24 November 2015. According to Turkey, the aircraft—whose nationality was unknown at the time—was fired upon while in Turkish airspace because it violated the border up to a depth of 2.19 kilometres (1.36 miles) for about 17 seconds after being warned to change its heading 10 times over a period of five minutes before entering the airspace.
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2015 — Arish hotel bombing
The Arish hotel bombing was a terrorist attack on a hotel in the coastal city of Al-Arish, Egypt, on 24 November 2015. A group of militants approached the heavily guarded hotel with a car bomb, but Egyptian security forces opened fire at the vehicle, blowing it up before it could reach the building.
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2017 — 2017 Indelimane ambush
On November 24, 2017, jihadists from Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin ambushed Nigerien MINUSMA peacekeepers and Malian soldiers in the village of Indelimane, Mali.
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2017 — 2017 Sinai mosque attack
At 1:50 PM EET on 24 November 2017, the al-Rawda mosque was attacked by roughly 40 gunmen during Friday prayers. The mosque is located in the village of Al-Rawda east of the town of Bir al-Abed in Egypt's North Sinai Governorate. It is one of the main mosques associated with the Jaririya Sufi order, one of the largest Sufi orders in North Sinai.
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2017 — 2017 Hastings District Council by-election
The 2017 Hastings District Council by-election was held to elect a new mayor for the Hastings District of New Zealand following the election of incumbent mayor Lawrence Yule as MP for Tukituki, and to elect a new councillor in the Hastings-Havelock North ward as well. The election took place on 24 November and the winner served until after the 2019 election.
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2018 — 2018 Taiwanese local elections
Local elections were held on 24 November 2018 in Taiwan, to elect county magistrates (city mayors), county (city) councilors, township mayors, township councilors and chiefs of village (borough) in 6 municipalities and 16 counties (cities). Elected officials would serve a four-year term. Polling stations were open from 08:00 to 16:00 on the election day. The elections resulted in a substantial defeat for the DPP.
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2018 — Starrcade (2018)
The 2018 Starrcade was a professional wrestling streaming event produced by WWE, held for wrestlers from the promotion's main roster brands, Raw and SmackDown. It was WWE's second annual Starrcade and 20th overall. The event took place on Saturday, November 24, 2018, at the U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio, with a portion of it airing on November 25 as a one-hour WWE Network special.
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2018 — UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Ngannou 2
UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Ngannou 2 (also known as UFC Fight Night 141) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that was held on November 24, 2018 at Cadillac Arena in Beijing, China.
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2018 — 2018 Victorian state election
The 2018 Victorian state election was held on Saturday, 24 November 2018 to elect the 59th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Legislative Assembly (lower house) and all 40 seats in the Legislative Council (upper house) were up for election. The first-term incumbent Labor government, led by Premier Daniel Andrews, won a second four-year term, defeating the Liberal/National Coalition opposition, led by Opposition Leader Matthew Guy in a landslide victory.
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2018 — Results of the 2018 Victorian state election (Legislative Council)
This is a list of Legislative Council results for the 2018 Victorian state election. The Liberal Democratic Party and Animal Justice Party would win their first seat in the Legislative Council. The party's would win a seat at every election since.
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2018 — 2018 Taipei mayoral election
The 2018 Taipei mayoral election was held on 24 November alongside other local elections. Incumbent mayor Ko Wen-je, an independent, was eligible to run for a second term, and he ran against Kuomintang's Ting Shou-chung and the Democratic Progressive Party's Pasuya Yao. Ko was reelected, defeating Ting by only 3567 votes, and was sworn in on 25 December.
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2019 — 2019 Kwai Tsing District Council election
The 2019 Kwai Tsing District Council election was held on 24 November 2019 to elect all 31 elected members to the 32-member Kwai Tsing District Council. The pro-democrats scored a landslide victory in the 2019 election and regained the control of the council by taking 27 of the 31 elected seats. Notable defeated incumbent included legislator Alice Mak of FTU in Wai Ying.
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2019 — 2019 TOP 09 leadership election
The Czech political party TOP 09 held a leadership election on 24 November 2019. The incumbent leader Jiří Pospíšil decided not to seek a new term. Markéta Pekarová Adamová was elected the new leader when she defeated Tomáš Czernin.
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2019 — 2019 Guinea-Bissau presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Guinea-Bissau on 24 November 2019. As no candidate received a majority of the vote, a second round was held on 29 December. Incumbent president José Mário Vaz finished fourth in the first round of voting, failing to progress to the runoff. Umaro Sissoco Embaló won the second round with 54% of the vote, becoming the first president to be elected without the backing of the PAIGC since 1999–2000.
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2019 — 2019 Islands District Council election
The 2019 Islands District Council election was held on 24 November 2019 to elect all 10 elected members to the 18-member Islands District Council. In the historic landslide victory, Islands District Council became the only council where pro-democrats gained the majority of the elected seats but failed to take control of the council due to the 8 ex-officio seats.
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2019 — 2019 Kwun Tong District Council election
The 2019 Kwun Tong District Council election was held on 24 November 2019 to elect all 40 members to the Kwun Tong District Council.
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2019 — 2019 Sha Tin District Council election
The 2019 Sha Tin District Council election was held on 24 November 2019 to elect all 41 elected members to the 42-member Sha Tin District Council. In the historic landslide victory in 2019, the pro-democrats took control of the council by sweeping 40 of the 41 elected seats. Only new constituency Di Yee was won by pro-Beijing DAB as two pro-democrat candidates split the votes which gave the DAB the victory.
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2019 — 2019 Sai Kung District Council election
The 2019 Sai Kung District Council election was held on 24 November 2019 to elect all 29 elected members to the 31-member Sai Kung District Council. The pro-democrats scored a landslide victory by taking 26 of the 29 seats in the council, with Neo Democrats becoming the largest party. The pro-Beijing camp was almost completely wiped out from the council, except for the two ex-officio rural committee chairmen and the moderate councillors led by Christine Fong.
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2019 — 2019 Hong Kong local elections
The 2019 Hong Kong District Council elections were held on 24 November 2019 for all 18 District Councils of Hong Kong. 452 seats from all directly elected constituencies, out of the 479 seats in total, were contested. Nearly three million people voted, equivalent to 71 per cent of registered voters, an unprecedented turnout in the electoral history of Hong Kong.
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2019 — Survivor Series (2019)
The 2019 Survivor Series was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE, held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw, SmackDown, and NXT brand divisions. It was the 33rd annual Survivor Series and took place on November 24, 2019, at the Allstate Arena in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois.
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2019 — 2019 Styrian state election
The 2019 Styrian state election was held on 24 November 2019 to elect the members of the Landtag of Styria. The conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) was the clear winner of the election, winning 36.0% on a swing of 7.6 percentage points. This came to the detriment of the former largest party, the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), which lost six points and fell to second place.
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2019 — 2019 Romanian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Romania on 10 November 2019, with a second round held on 24 November 2019. They were the eighth presidential election held in post-1989 Romania. Incumbent president Klaus Iohannis, first elected in the 2014 election, was eligible for re-election. In the first round, Iohannis finished first with 37.82% of the vote, while former prime minister and ex-leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Viorica Dăncilă, finished second with 22.26%.
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2019 — 2019 Uruguayan general election
General elections were held in Uruguay on Sunday, 27 October 2019 to elect the President and General Assembly. As no presidential candidate received a majority in the first round of voting, a runoff election took place on 24 November. In the 2014 elections, the left-wing Broad Front had won a third consecutive election with absolute majorities in both houses of the General Assembly.
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2020 — 2020 Western Australian Liberal Party leadership election
The Western Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia held a leadership vote on 24 November 2020 to determine its leader. The election was conducted among Liberal Party members of the Parliament of Western Australia. It came after its previous leader, Liza Harvey, resigned following poor opinion polling. Deputy leader Bill Marmion also resigned on the same day.
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2022 — Anwar Ibrahim is sworn in as Malaysia’s prime minister
Anwar Ibrahim took the oath of office at the national palace in Kuala Lumpur, becoming Malaysia’s tenth prime minister. His appointment followed a general election in which no coalition secured a majority.
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2023 — PFL 10 (2023)
The PFL 10 was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Professional Fighters League that took place on November 24, 2023, at The Anthem in Washington, D.C., United States. This was the finale of the playoffs for all 2023 divisions, with the winners getting a PFL World Championship and a $1 million cash prize.
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2023 — Niafunké attack
On November 24, 2023, jihadist militants from Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) attacked Malian forces at Niafunké, Mali.
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2024 — Progress Chapter 174: Vendetta 2
The Chapter 174: Vendetta 2 was a professional wrestling event produced by Progress Wrestling. It took place on 24 November 2024, in London, England, at the Electric Ballroom. Eight matches were contested at the event. The main event saw Luke Jacobs defeat Leon Slater to retain the PROGRESS World Championship.
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2024 — 2024 Romanian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Romania on 24 November 2024. A second round was due to be held on 8 December 2024 as no candidate achieved an absolute majority in the first round; however, the Constitutional Court annulled the election on 6 December 2024, alleging that a Russian influence operation had impacted the vote. This was the ninth presidential election held in post-revolution Romania.
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2024 — 2024 Styrian state election
The 2024 Styrian state election was held on 24 November 2024 to elect the members of the Landtag of Styria. The election resulted in heavy losses for the governing ÖVP and moderate losses for its coalition partner, the SPÖ. Together, they lost their majority in the state parliament (Landtag). Both parties also received their worst ever election results in the state of Styria.
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2024 — 2024 Syriza leadership election
A leadership election was held on 24 November 2024. The winner was Sokratis Famellos, an MP of Syriza and former leader of the parliamentary group. In second place, with a small gap to the winner, was the MP from Chania, Pavlos Polakis, who said that he did not want a second round.
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2024 — 2024 Nagoya mayoral election
The 2024 Nagoya mayoral election was held on 24 November 2024, to elect the mayor of Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan because of the resignation of Takashi Kawamura to run for the 2024 general election. Ichiro Hirosawa, who is a close aide of Kawamura, was elected for the first time.
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2024 — Second round of the 2024 Chilean regional governor elections
Runoff voting for regional governors took place on 24 November 2024 in 11 Chilean regions where no candidate had met the first-round threshold. The first round was held on 26 and 27 October.
This records only the regional governor runoffs; the first round and regional council voting took place in October.
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2024 — 2024 Uruguayan general election
General elections were held in Uruguay on 27 October 2024. Since no presidential candidate received a majority in the first round of voting, a runoff took place on 24 November 2024, with Yamandú Orsi of the Broad Front defeating Álvaro Delgado of the Republican Coalition.
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2025 — 2025 Venetian regional election
The 2025 Venetian regional election was held in Veneto, Italy from 23 to 24 November 2025.
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2025 — 2025 Campania regional election
The 2025 Campania regional election was held in Campania, Italy, from 23 to 24 November 2025.
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