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Events from History on November 24

1105 : Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes Talmudic dictionary
1434 : Thames River freezes
1542 : Battle at Solway Moss: English beat Scottish King James
1587 : Battle at Auneau: Henri de Guise wins
1601 : Earl Mauritius ceases siege of De Bosch due to strict monarchy
1628 : John Ford's "Lover's Melancholy," premieres in London
1639 : 1st observation of transit of Venus occured (only 2, record event)
1642 : Abel Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
1643 : Battle at Tuttlingen: Beiers army under Gen Mercy beats France
1655 : English Lord Protector Cromwell bans Anglicans
1688 : General strategist John Churchill meets Willem III
1703 : 1st Lutheran pastor ordained in America, Justus Falckner at Phila
1715 : Thames River freezes
1759 : Destructive eruption of Vesuvius
1800 : Weber's opera "Das Waldm„dchen," premieres in Freiburg
1832 : South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification
1835 : Texas Rangers, mounted police force authorized by Texas Prov Govt
1859 : Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"
1861 : Luik-Vis‚-Maastricht railway opens
1862 : M L‚vy publishes Gustave Flauberts "Salammbo"
1863 : Battle of Chattanooga, Columbia & Lookout Mt begins in Tennessee
1869 : American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland)
1871 : National Rifle Association organized (NYC)
1874 : Joseph F Glidden patents barbed wire
1880 : Southern University forms
1887 : Victorien Sardou's "La Tosca," premieres in Paris
1896 : 1st US absentee voting law enacted by Vermont
1897 : Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union forms in Kingston
1903 : Clyde Coleman of NYC patents automobile electric starter
1903 : George Ade's "County Chairman," premieres in NYC
1905 : Moshav Hertzlia forms in Israel
1914 : Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party
1914 : Dutch Overseas Trustmaatschappij (NOT) forms
1915 : Serbian leader flees to Albania
1918 : B‚la Can forms Hungarian Communist Party
1921 : K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #968 Petunia
1922 : G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #3641
1922 : Italian parliament gives Mussolini dictatorial powers "for 1 year"
1923 : Radio Belgium's 1st transmission
1924 : 1st Dutch airplane (Fokker's F-7) reaches Batavia (Java)
1924 : Max Wolf discovers asteroid #1038 Tuckia & #1039 Sonneberga
1925 : 1st radio-broadcast of Dutch KRO (Catholic Radio Broadcast)
1925 : Eugene O'Neill Theater (Coronet, Forrest) opens at 230 W 49th St NYC
1926 : KVI-AM in Seattle WA begins radio transmissions
1930 : 1st woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth
1930 : L Boyer discovers asteroid #1177 Gonnessia
1930 : Nichols (Mineola, NY to Calif), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days
1934 : SN Behrman's "Rain from Heaven," premieres in NYC
1935 : King George II returns to Greece after 12 years
1936 : No‰l Coward's "Tonight at 8:30," premieres in NYC
1936 : Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to
1936 : concentration camp, award Nobel Peace Prize
1937 : Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1460 Haltia
1938 : Clifford Odets' "Rocket to the Moon," premieres in NYC
1940 : A Patry discovers asteroid #4162 SAF
1941 : "Life Certificates" issued to some Jews of Vilna, rest exterminated
1941 : Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar
1941 : US troops land on Suriname to protect bauxite mine
1942 : Fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein arrives in Starobelsk
1942 : French collaborator earl De Brinon establishes "African Falanx"
1944 : US bombers based on Saipan, begin 1st attack on Tokyo
1947 : John Steinbeck's novel "Pearl" published
1947 : Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt
1947 : because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists
1948 : Ireland votes for independence from UK
1948 : WAVE TV channel 3 in Louisville, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 : Britain nationalizes it's steel & iron industry
1949 : Syracuse Nationals beat Anderson Packers, 125-123 in 5 OTs
1950 : "Guys & Dolls" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1200 performances
1950 : UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas
1950 : US infantry division conquerors Chonju Korea
1951 : "17" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 180 performances
1951 : "Music in the Air" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1951 : British auto manufacturers Austin/Moris Motors merge
1951 : M Laugier discovers asteroid #6887
1952 : Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" opens in London (still running)
1953 : Dodgers sign Walter Alston to a 1-year pact as manager for 1954
1954 : Air Force One, 1st US Presidential airplane, christened
1954 : France sends 20,000 soldiers to Algeria
1955 : 1st test flight of Fokker's F-27 Friendship
1956 : "Pajama Game" closes at St James Theater NYC after 1063 performances
1958 : Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community
1962 : Last of Dutch militia leave New-Guinea
1963 : 1st live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
1964 : 30th Heisman Trophy Award: John Huarte, Notre Dame (QB)
1964 : For 1st time since 1800, residents of Wash DC permitted to vote
1964 : Rebellion ends in Zaire
1965 : Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu, becomes pres of Zaire
1966 : 1st TV station in Congo, Kinshasa (Zaire)
1966 : 400 die of respiratory failure & heart attack in killer NYC smog
1966 : The Beatles began recording sessions for "Sgt Pepper"
1969 : Apollo 12 returns to Earth
1969 : Lt William L Calley, charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in
1969 : My Lai Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial
1969 : West German pres Heinemann visits Netherlands
1970 : 36th Heisman Trophy Award: Jim Plunkett, Stanford (QB)
1970 : L Kohoutek discovers asteroid #1861 Komensky, #4137 & #6680
1971 : Braves catcher-infielder Earl Williams, wins NL Rookie of Year
1971 : Dan "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200,000
1971 : Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison NJ
1972 : USSR performs underground nuclear test
1973 : Miss Teenage America Pageant
1973 : P Wild discovers asteroids #1936 Lugano, #1962 Dunant & #2038 Bistro
1974 : 2 truck hijackers freed (3/3/1974)
1974 : Gerald Ford & Leonid Brezhnev signs SALT-2-treaty
1975 : "Boccaccio" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 7 performances
1977 : France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1979 : Kings' Charley Simmer fails on 8th penalty shot against Islanders
1979 : US admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange
1980 : Ronald Reagan Jr marries Doria Palmieri
1981 : E Bowell discovers asteroids #2633 Bishop, 2708 Burns, #2813 Zappala,
1981 : #3172 Hirst, #3173 McNaught, #3454 Lieske, #3853 Haas, #3944 Halliday,
1981 : #4024 Ronan, #4025 Ridley, #5500 Twilley & #6628 Dondelia
1981 : 1st air-launched cruise missile tested
1981 : Oak Ridge Observatory discovers asteroid #7738
1982 : Orioles Cal Ripken is named AL Rookie of Year
1982 : Yasuhiro Nakasone succeeds Zenko Suzuki as premier of Japan
1983 : PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians & Lebanese
1985 : Egyptian commandos storm captured Boeing in Malta, 60 killed
1986 : "Smile" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 48 performances
1986 : Cards reliever Todd Worrell wins NL Rookie of Year
1986 : Wrestler John Tatum charged with possession of marijuana
1987 : Li Peng succeeds premier Zhao Ziyang in China PR
1989 : Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
1989 : Elias Hrawi elected president of Lebanon
1989 : M Koishikawa discovers asteroid #4871 Riverside
1989 : R H McNaught discovers asteroid #5558 & #5739
1990 : K Endate & K Watanabe discover asteroid #6908
1991 : 1st intl flight from Long Island's MacArthur Airport (to Mexico)
1991 : Rachmon Nabijev elected pres of Tadzjikistan
1991 : US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 launched
1992 : Boeing 734 crashes into mountain in China, kills 141
1993 : Brady bill passes establishing 5-day waiting period for handgun sales
1993 : End of world, according to Ukrainian sect White Brotherhood
1994 : T Kobayashi discovers asteroid #6986
1995 : Ireland votes to end 70-year-old ban on divorce (50.28% to 49.72%)
1996 : "Juan Darien - A Carnival Mass," opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC
1996 : Karrie Webb wins ITT LPGA Tour Championship
1996 : Rookie Karrie Webb wins LPGA Tour Championship
1997 : "Street Corner Symphony," opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 79 perfs

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