November 24

Last updated August 21, 2019

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November 24 is the 328th day of the year(329th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 37 days remain until the end of the year.

A leap year is a calendar year containing one additional day added to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year. Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, calendars that have the same number of days in each year drift over time with respect to the event that the year is supposed to track. By inserting an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year that is not a leap year is called a common year.

The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most of the world. It is named after Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced it in October 1582. The calendar spaces leap years to make the average year 365.2425 days long, approximating the 365.2422-day tropical year that is determined by the Earth's revolution around the Sun. The rule for leap years is:

Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year, except for years that are exactly divisible by 100, but these centurial years are leap years if they are exactly divisible by 400. For example, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 are not leap years, but the year 2000 is.

Events

380 – Theodosius I makes his adventus , or formal entry, into Constantinople.^[1]
1190 – Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem.^[2]
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.^[3]
1248 – An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages.^[4]
1359 – Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father, Hugh IV of Cyprus, abdicates.
1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.
1542 – Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.
1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
1750 – Tarabai, regent of the Maratha Empire, imprisons Rajaram II for refusing to remove Balaji Baji Rao from the post of peshwa.
1832 – South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring that the Tariffs of 1832 and 1838 were null and void in the state, beginning the Nullification Crisis.
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 .
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.
1877 – Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
1906 – 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.
1917 – 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.
1922 – 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.
1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
1940 – World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
1941 – World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces.
1943 – World War II: At the battle of Makin the USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
1944 – World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.
1962 – Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
1962 – The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby.
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.
1966 – Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon.
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 lasts only four months.
1974 – 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.
1976 – The Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.
1992 – China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashes on approach to Guilin Qifengling Airport in Guilin, China, killing all 141 people on board.^[5]
2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.
2013 – Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.
2015 – 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.
2015 – A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others.
2015 – An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.
2016 – 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.

Year 380 (CCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Augustus. The denomination 380 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Theodosius I, also known as Theodosius the Great, was a Roman Emperor from 379 to 395, and the last emperor to rule over both the Eastern and the Western halves of the Roman Empire. On accepting his elevation, he campaigned against Goths and other barbarians who had invaded the Empire. His resources were not sufficient to destroy them or drive them out, which had been Roman policy for centuries in dealing with invaders. By treaty, which followed his indecisive victory at the end of the Gothic War, they were established as foederati, autonomous allies of the Empire, south of the Danube, in Illyricum, within the Empire's borders. They were given lands and allowed to remain under their own leaders, a grave departure from Roman hegemonic ways. This turn away from traditional policies was accommodationist and had grave consequences for the Western Empire from the beginning of the century, as the Romans found themselves with the impossible task of defending the borders and deal with unruly federates within. Theodosius I was obliged to fight two destructive civil wars, successively defeating the usurpers Magnus Maximus in 387–388 and Eugenius in 394, though not without material cost to the power of the Empire.

The adventus was a ceremony in ancient Rome, in which an emperor was formally welcomed into a city either during a progress or after a military campaign, often Rome. The term is also used to refer to artistic depictions of such ceremonies. Its 'opposite' is the profectio.

Births

1273 – Alphonso, Earl of Chester (d. 1284)
1394 – Charles, Duke of Orléans (d. 1465)
1427 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (d. 1473)
1472 – Pietro Torrigiano, Italian sculptor (d. 1528)
1583 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet and painter (d. 1641)
1583 – Philip Massinger, English dramatist (d. 1640)
1594 – Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire (d. 1651)
1603 – John, Count of Nassau-Idstein (1629–1677) (d. 1677)
1615 – Philip William, Elector Palatine (d. 1690)
1630 – Étienne Baluze, French scholar and academic (d. 1718)
1632 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and scholar (d. 1677)
1655 – Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)
1690 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German organist and composer (d. 1750)
1712 – Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French priest and educator (d. 1789)
1712 – Ali II ibn Hussein, Tunisian ruler (d. 1782)
1713 – Junípero Serra, Spanish priest and missionary (d. 1784)
1713 – Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and clergyman (d. 1768)
1724 – Maria Amalia of Saxony (d. 1760)
1729 – Alexander Suvorov, Russian field marshal (d. 1800)
1745 – Maria Luisa of Spain (d. 1792)
1774 – Thomas Dick, Scottish minister, author, and educator (d. 1857)
1784 – Zachary Taylor, American general and politician, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
1801 – Ludwig Bechstein, German author and poet (d. 1860)
1806 – William Webb Ellis, English priest, created Rugby football (d. 1872)
1811 – Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (d. 1890)
1812 – Xavier Hommaire de Hell, French geographer and engineer (d. 1848)
1826 – Carlo Collodi, Italian journalist and author (d. 1890)
1840 – John Alfred Brashear, American scientist, telescope maker and educator (d. 1920)
1849 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American novelist and playwright (d. 1924)
1851 – John Indermaur, British lawyer (d. 1925)
1857 – Miklós Kovács, Hungarian-Slovene poet and songwriter (d. 1937)
1859 – Cass Gilbert, American architect, designed the United States Supreme Court Building and Woolworth Building (d. 1934)
1864 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator (d. 1901)
1868 – Scott Joplin, American pianist and composer (d. 1917)
1869 – Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (d. 1951)
1873 – Julius Martov, Russian politician (d. 1923)
1873 – Herbert Roper Barrett, English tennis player (d. 1943)
1874 – Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer and referee (d. 1953)
1876 – Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and urban planner, designed Canberra (d. 1937)
1877 – Alben W. Barkley, American lawyer and politician, 35th Vice President of the United States (d. 1956)
1877 – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police officer (d. 1941)
1879 – Wylie Cameron Grant, American tennis player (d. 1968)
1881 – Al Christie, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1951)
1882 – Nikolai Janson, Russian politician (d. 1938)
1884 – Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Ukrainian-Israeli historian and politician, 2nd President of Israel (d. 1963)
1885 – Theodor Altermann, Estonian actor, director, and producer (d. 1915)
1885 – Christian Wirth, German SS officer (d. 1944)
1886 – Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher, founded The Little Review (d. 1973)
1887 – Raoul Paoli, French boxer and rower (d. 1960)
1887 – Erich von Manstein, German field marshal (d. 1973)
1888 – Dale Carnegie, American author and educator (d. 1955)
1888 – Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist and author (d. 1972)
1891 – Vasil Gendov, Bulgarian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1970)
1893 – Charles F. Hurley, American soldier and politician, 54th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)
1894 – Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer and businessman (d. 1978)
1895 – Esther Applin, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1972)
1897 – Lucky Luciano, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1962)
1897 – Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, English tennis player (d. 1953)
1899 – Ward Morehouse, American author, playwright, and critic (d. 1966)
1904 – Albert Ross Tilley, Canadian captain and surgeon (d. 1988)
1908 – Libertad Lamarque, Argentinian actress and singer (d. 2000)
1910 – Larry Siemering, American football player and coach (d. 2009)
1911 – Kirby Grant, American actor (d. 1985)
1911 – Joe Medwick, American baseball player and manager (d. 1975)
1912 – Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher and academic (d. 1993)
1912 – Garson Kanin, American director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1912 – Joan Sanderson, English actress (d. 1992)
1912 – Charles Schneeman, American soldier and illustrator (d. 1972)
1912 – Teddy Wilson, American pianist and educator (d. 1986)
1913 – Howard Duff, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1990)
1913 – Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (d. 2005)
1914 – Lynn Chadwick, English sculptor (d. 2003)
1914 – Bessie Blount Griffin, American physical therapist, inventor and forensic scientist (d. 2009)
1916 – Forrest J Ackerman, American soldier and author (d. 2008)
1917 – Shabtai Rosenne, English-Israeli academic, jurist, and diplomat (d. 2010)
1919 – David Kossoff, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1921 – John Lindsay, American lawyer and politician, 103rd Mayor of New York City (d. 2000)
1922 – Claus Moser, Baron Moser, German-English statistician and academic (d. 2015)
1924 – Eileen Barton, American singer (d. 2006)
1924 – Lorne Munroe, Canadian-American cellist and educator
1925 – William F. Buckley, Jr., American publisher and author, founded the National Review (d. 2008)
1925 – Simon van der Meer, Dutch-Swiss physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
1926 – Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 – Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian-French author and playwright (d. 2003)
1927 – Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)
1927 – Kevin Skinner, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2014)
1929 – Franciszek Kokot, Polish nephrologist and endocrinologist
1929 – George Moscone, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 37th Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1978)
1930 – Ken Barrington, English cricketer (d. 1981)
1930 – Bob Friend, American baseball player and politician (d. 2019)
1931 – Tommy Allsup, American guitarist (d. 2017)
1931 – Arthur Chaskalson, South African lawyer and judge, 18th Chief Justice of South Africa (d. 2012)
1932 – Claudio Naranjo, Chilean psychiatrist
1932 – Fred Titmus, English cricketer and coach (d. 2011)
1933 – John Sheridan, English rugby player and coach (d. 2012)
1934 – Alfred Schnittke, German-Russian journalist and composer (d. 1998)
1935 – Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahraini politician, Prime Minister of Bahrain
1935 – Ron Dellums, American soldier and politician, 48th Mayor of Oakland (d. 2018)
1935 – Mordicai Gerstein, American author, illustrator, and director
1938 – Willy Claes, Belgian conductor and politician, 8th Secretary General of NATO
1938 – Oscar Robertson, American basketball player and sportscaster
1938 – Charles Starkweather, American spree killer (d. 1959)
1940 – Marshall Berman, American philosopher and Marxist humanist writer (d. 2013)
1940 – Paul Tagliabue, American lawyer and businessman, 5th Commissioner of the National Football League
1940 – Eric Wilson, Canadian author and educator
1941 – Pete Best, Indian-English drummer and songwriter
1941 – Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (d. 2012)
1941 – Wayne Jackson, American trumpeter (Mar-Keys, The Memphis Horns) (d. 2016)
1942 – Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian and actor
1942 – Marlin Fitzwater, American soldier and journalist, 17th White House Press Secretary
1942 – Jean Ping, Gabonese politician and diplomat
1942 – Andrew Stunell, English minister and politician
1943 – Dave Bing, American basketball player and politician, 70th Mayor of Detroit
1943 – Richard Tee, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (d. 1993)
1943 – Robin Williamson, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Margaret E. M. Tolbert, American chemist and academic
1944 – Bev Bevan, English drummer
1944 – Candy Darling, American model and actress (d. 1974)
1944 – Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian academic and diplomat, 9th Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1944 – Dan Glickman, American businessman and politician, 26th United States Secretary of Agriculture
1945 – Lee Michaels, American singer-songwriter and musician
1946 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989)
1946 – Tony Clarkin, English guitarist and songwriter
1946 – Penny Jordan, English author (d. 2011)
1947 – Dwight Schultz, American actor
1947 – Dave Sinclair, English keyboard player
1948 – Spider Robinson, American-Canadian author and critic
1948 – Rudy Tomjanovich, American basketball player and coach
1948 – Steve Yeager, American baseball player and coach
1949 – Shane Bourne, Australian comedian, actor, and television host
1949 – Ewen Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington, English politician
1949 – Sally Davies, English hematologist and academic
1950 – Bob Burns, American drummer and songwriter (d. 2015)
1950 – Stanley Livingston, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1951 – Mimis Androulakis, Greek author and politician
1951 – Chet Edwards, American businessman and politician
1951 – Margaret Mountford, Northern Irish-British lawyer and businesswoman
1951 – Graham Price, Egyptian-Welsh rugby player
1952 – Parveen Shakir, Pakistani Urdu poet (d. 1994)
1952 – Rachel Chagall, American actress
1952 – Norbert Haug, German journalist and businessman
1952 – Thierry Lhermitte, French actor, producer, and screenwriter
1952 – Jim Sheridan, Scottish politician
1952 – Ken Wilson, Australian rugby league player
1954 – Emir Kusturica, Serbian actor, director, and screenwriter
1954 – Margaret Wetherell, English psychologist and academic
1955 – Ian Botham, English cricketer, footballer, and sportscaster
1955 – Clem Burke, American drummer
1955 – Scott Hoch, American golfer
1955 – Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Swedish politician, Swedish Minister for Culture
1955 – Najib Mikati, Lebanese businessman and politician, 31st Prime Minister of Lebanon
1955 – Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer and author
1956 – Ruben Santiago-Hudson, American actor, playwright, and director
1957 – Denise Crosby, American actress and producer
1957 – Edward Stourton, English journalist and author
1958 – Roy Aitken, Scottish footballer and manager
1958 – Margaret Curran, Scottish academic and politician
1958 – Nick Knight, British photographer
1959 – Todd Brooker, Canadian skier and sportscaster
1960 – Edgar Meyer, American bassist and composer
1961 – Carlos Carnero, Spanish lawyer and politician
1961 – Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist, recipient of Booker Prize
1962 – John Kovalic, English author and illustrator
1962 – John Squire, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962 – Paul Thorburn, German-Welsh rugby player and manager
1962 – Ioannis Topalidis, Greek footballer and manager
1962 – Tracey Wickham, Australian swimmer
1963 – Neale Cooper, Scottish footballer (d. 2018)
1964 – Garret Dillahunt, American actor
1964 – Brad Sherwood, American actor and game show host
1965 – Shirley Henderson, Scottish actress
1965 – Dawn Robinson, American singer and actress
1966 – Russell Watson, English tenor and actor
1967 – Henrik Brockmann, Danish singer-songwriter
1967 – Cal Eldred, American baseball player and sportscaster
1968 – Bülent Korkmaz, Turkish footballer and manager
1969 – David Adeang, Nauruan lawyer and politician
1969 – Romesh Kaluwitharana, Sri Lankan cricketer
1969 – Rob Nicholson, American bass player and songwriter
1970 – Doug Brien, American football player
1970 – Julieta Venegas, American-Mexican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1970 – Ashley Ward, English footballer and businessman
1971 – Cosmas Ndeti, Kenyan runner
1971 – Keith Primeau, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
1972 – Marek Lemsalu, Estonian footballer
1972 – Ruxandra Dragomir, Romanian tennis player
1973 – Alejandro Ávila, Mexican telenovela actor
1974 – Stephen Merchant, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1974 – Machel Montano, Trinidadian singer-songwriter and producer
1974 – Tarō Yamamoto, Japanese actor and politician
1974 – Amy Faye Hayes, American boxing ring announcer and model
1975 – Thomas Kohnstamm, American author
1976 – Christian Laflamme, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 – Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater
1976 – Mona Hanna-Attisham British-American pediatrician, professor, and public health advocate
1977 – Colin Hanks, American actor
1977 – Celaleddin Koçak, German-Turkish footballer
1978 – Katherine Heigl, American actress and producer
1979 – Joseba Llorente, Spanish footballer
1980 – Kabir Ali, English cricketer
1980 – Beth Phoenix, American wrestler
1982 – Ryan Fitzpatrick, American football player
1982 – Sean O'Loughlin, English rugby player
1983 – Dean Ashton, English footballer
1983 – Lars Eckert, German rugby player
1983 – André Laurito, German footballer
1983 – Gwilym Lee, Welsh actor
1983 – José López, Venezuelan baseball player
1983 – Karine Vanasse, Canadian actress and producer
1984 – Maria Höfl-Riesch, German skier
1985 – Julia Alexandratou, Greek model, actress, and singer
1985 – Tony Hunt, American football player
1986 – Pedro León, Spanish footballer
1986 – Mohamed Massaquoi, American football player
1990 – Sarah Hyland, American actress
1990 – Tom Odell, English singer-songwriter
1990 – Michael Oldfield, Australian rugby league player
1990 – Mario Gaspar, Spanish footballer
1992 – Sergei Kulbach, Ukrainian figure skater
1993 – Ivi Adamou, Cypriot-Greek singer-songwriter
1993 – Joe Pigott, English footballer
1994 – Nabil Bentaleb, Algerian footballer

Year 1273 (MCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Alphonso, Earl of Chester 13th-century English prince

Alphonso or Alfonso, also called Alphonsus and Alphonse and styled Earl of Chester, was an heir apparent to the English throne who never became king.

Year 1394 (MCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Deaths

654 – Emperor Kōtoku of Japan (b. 596)
1072 – Bagrat IV of Georgia (b. 1018)
1227 – Leszek I the White, High Duke of Poland (b. c. 1186)
1265 – Magnús Óláfsson, King of Mann and the Isles
1326 – Hugh Despenser the Younger, English courtier (b. 1296)
1426 – Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter, (b. c. 1363)
1468 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402)
1492 – Loys of Gruuthuse, Earl of Winchester (b. c. 1427)
1530 – Mingyi Nyo, Burmese ruler (b. 1459)
1531 – Johannes Oecolampadius, German theologian and reformer (b. 1482)
1572 – John Knox, Scottish pastor and theologian (b. 1510)
1583 – René de Birague, French cardinal (b. 1506)
1615 – Sethus Calvisius, German composer and theorist (b. 1556)
1642 – Walatta Petros, saint in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (b. 1592)
1650 – Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese organist and composer (b. 1566)
1675 – Guru Tegh Bahadur, Indian guru (b. 1621)
1722 – Johann Adam Reincken, Dutch-German organist and composer (b. 1623)
1741 – Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden (b. 1688)
1770 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian and author (b. 1685)
1775 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1703)
1781 – James Caldwell, American minister (b. 1734)
1793 – Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Finance (b. 1723)
1801 – Franz Moritz von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)
1801 – Philip Hamilton, Oldest son of Alexander Hamilton (b. 1782)
1807 – Joseph Brant, American tribal leader (b. 1742)
1848 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779)
1870 – Comte de Lautréamont, Uruguayan-French poet and author (b. 1846)
1885 – Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentinian journalist and politician, 8th President of Argentina (b. 1837)
1890 – August Belmont, German-American banker and politician, 16th United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (b. 1816)
1895 – Ludwik Teichmann, Polish anatomist (b. 1823)^[6]
1916 – Hiram Maxim, American-English engineer, invented the Maxim gun (b. 1840)
1920 – Lado Aleksi-Meskhishvili, Georgian actor and director (b. 1857)
1920 – Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian author and poet (b. 1854)
1922 – Erskine Childers, Irish soldier, journalist, and author (b. 1870)
1929 – Georges Clemenceau, French physician, publisher, and politician, 72nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1841)
1943 – Doris Miller, American soldier and chef, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1919)
1948 – Anna Jarvis, American founder of Mother's Day (b. 1864)
1956 – Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b. 1920)
1957 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter and sculptor (b. 1886)
1958 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
1959 – Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player, cricketer, and sailor (b. 1883)
1960 – Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)
1961 – Ruth Chatterton, American actress (b. 1892)
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
1965 – Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1895)
1968 – D. A. Levy, American poet and publisher (b. 1942)
1973 – John Neihardt, American author and poet (b. 1881)
1980 – Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (b. 1897)
1980 – George Raft, American actor and dancer (b. 1901)
1980 – Henrietta Hill Swope, American astronomer and academic (b. 1902)
1982 – Barack Obama, Sr., Kenyan economist and academic, father of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (b. 1936)
1987 – Jehane Benoît, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1904)
1990 – Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1934)
1990 – Fred Shero, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1925)
1990 – Dodie Smith, English author and playwright (b. 1896)
1990 – Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer (b. 1910)
1990 – Bülent Arel, Turkish-American composer and educator (b. 1919)
1991 – Freddie Mercury, Tanzanian-English singer-songwriter, lead vocalist of Queen, and producer (b. 1946)
1991 – Eric Carr, American drummer of KISS (b. 1950)
1993 – Albert Collins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932)
1995 – Eduard Ole, Estonian-Swedish painter (b. 1898)
1996 – Sorley MacLean, Scottish soldier and poet (b. 1911)
1997 – Barbara, French singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1930)
2002 – John Rawls, American philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1921)
2003 – Warren Spahn, American baseball player and coach (b. 1921)
2004 – Arthur Hailey, English-Canadian journalist and author (b. 1920)
2004 – Joseph Hansen, American author and poet (b. 1923)
2004 – James Wong, Chinese actor and songwriter (b. 1940)
2005 – Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
2006 – Juice Leskinen, Finnish singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
2006 – George W. S. Trow, American author, playwright, and critic (b. 1943)
2006 – Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist and ethologist (b. 1938)
2007 – Casey Calvert, American guitarist (b. 1981)
2008 – Kenny MacLean, Scottish-Canadian bass player and songwriter (b. 1956)
2008 – Cecil H. Underwood, American educator and politician, 25th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1922)
2009 – Abe Pollin, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1923)
2009 – Samak Sundaravej, Thai politician, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1935)
2009 – Jun Ross, Filipino basketball player (b. 1949)
2010 – Huang Hua, Chinese translator and politician, 5th Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (b. 1913)
2012 – Héctor Camacho, Puerto Rican-American boxer (b. 1962)
2012 – Antoine Kohn, Luxembourgian footballer and manager (b. 1933)
2012 – Jimmy Stewart, American baseball player and manager (b. 1939)
2012 – Nicholas Turro, American chemist and academic (b. 1938)
2012 – Ernie Warlick, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1932)
2013 – Matthew Bucksbaum, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded General Growth Properties (b. 1926)
2013 – Arnaud Coyot, French cyclist (b. 1980)
2013 – Lou Hyndman, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1935)
2013 – June Keithley, Filipino actress and journalist (b. 1947)
2013 – Jean King, American politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii (b. 1925)
2013 – Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown, English banker and politician, Governor of the Bank of England (b. 1927)
2014 – Jorge Herrera Delgado, Mexican engineer and politician (b. 1961)
2014 – Murli Deora, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Corporate Affairs (b. 1937)
2014 – Peter Henderson, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1926)
2014 – Nenad Manojlović, Serbian water polo player and manager (b. 1957)
2014 – Viktor Tikhonov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1930)
2015 – Robert Ford, English general (b. 1923)
2015 – John Forrester, English historian and philosopher (b. 1949)
2015 – Quincy Monk, American football player (b. 1979)
2015 – Heinz Oberhummer, Austrian physicist, astronomer, and academic (b. 1941)
2015 – Douglas W. Shorenstein, American businessman (b. 1955)
2016 – Paul Futcher, footballer, Luton Town, Barnsley, Grimsby Town (b.1956)
2016 – Florence Henderson, American actress, singer and television personality (b. 1934)

Year 654 (DCLIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 654 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Emperor Kōtoku was the 36th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

Year 1072 (MLXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast days:
Pierre-Rose-Ursule Dumoulin-Borie was a French Catholic missionary priest and a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. He is a Catholic saint, canonized in 1988 along with other Vietnamese Martyrs.
The Vietnamese Martyrs, also known as the Martyrs of Indochina, Martyrs of Tonkin, Annam, and Cochinchina, or Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions, are saints on the General Roman Calendar who were canonized by Pope John Paul II. On June 19, 1988, thousands of Overseas Vietnamese worldwide gathered at the Vatican for the Celebration of the Canonization of 117 Vietnamese Martyrs, an event chaired by Monsignor Tran Van Hoai. Their memorial is on November 24.
Saint Chrysogonus is a saint and martyr of ancient Rome venerated by the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church.
Earliest day on which Harvest Day can fall, while November 30 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in November. (Turkmenistan)
Earliest day on which Mother's Day can fall, while November 30 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in November. (Russia)
Evolution Day (International observance)
Lachit Divas (Assam)
Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur (India)
Teachers' Day (Turkey)

The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint. The word "feast" in this context does not mean "a large meal, typically a celebratory one", but instead "an annual religious celebration, a day dedicated to a particular saint".

Albert of Louvain was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the Prince-Bishop of Liège. He was canonized as a saint on 9 August 1613 and his feast falls on the date of his death.

Saint Andrew Dũng-Lạc, French: André Dũng-Lạc) was a Vietnamese Roman Catholic priest. He was executed by beheading in the reign of Minh Mạng. He is a saint and martyr of the Catholic Church.

References

↑ Haykin (1 September 1994). The Spirit of God: The Exegesis of 1 and 2 Corinthians in the Pneumatomachian Controversy of the Fourth Century. BRILL. p. 179. ISBN 978-90-04-31294-4.
↑ Pipe roll society. 1974. p. 63.
↑ Jasienica Pawel (2007). Polska Piastow. Proszynski. pp. 174, 236. ISBN 9788374694797.
↑ Sujit Mandal; Ramkrishna Maiti (7 November 2014). Semi-quantitative Approaches for Landslide Assessment and Prediction. Springer. p. 4. ISBN 978-981-287-146-6.
↑ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-3Y0 B-2523 Guilin Airport (KWL)". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
↑ "Ludwik Karol TEICHMANN". khm.cm-uj.krakow.pl (in Polish). Retrieved Aug 20, 2019.

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[1] Haykin (1 September 1994). The Spirit of God: The Exegesis of 1 and 2 Corinthians in the Pneumatomachian Controversy of the Fourth Century. BRILL. p. 179. ISBN 978-90-04-31294-4.

[2] Pipe roll society. 1974. p. 63.

[3] Jasienica Pawel (2007). Polska Piastow. Proszynski. pp. 174, 236. ISBN 9788374694797.

[4] Sujit Mandal; Ramkrishna Maiti (7 November 2014). Semi-quantitative Approaches for Landslide Assessment and Prediction. Springer. p. 4. ISBN 978-981-287-146-6.

[5] Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-3Y0 B-2523 Guilin Airport (KWL)". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 2019-06-24.

[6] "Ludwik Karol TEICHMANN". khm.cm-uj.krakow.pl (in Polish). Retrieved Aug 20, 2019.

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