November 24 – A Day as Today - ¡Events and Curiosities!
November 24 – A Day as Today – Ephemeris in Dorian’s Secrets.
There are 37 days left to end the Year!
November 24 is the 328th (thirty-twenty-eighth) day of the year on the Gregorian calendar and the 329th in leap years.
Events that Happened “A Day as Today”

November 24 – A Day as Today – Events
- 380: in present-day Turkey, the Roman emperor Theodosius made his entry into Constantinople.
- 700: in present-day Spain, the Visigothic king Égica orders the royal anointing of his son Witiza, who did not assume all the royal functions until his father’s death in December 702.
- 847: in Damascus (Syria), an earthquake of X degrees on the Mercalli scale leaves a balance of 70,000 dead.
- 1358: in Nicosia, Hugo IV of Cyprus abdicates the throne in favor of his son Peter I of Cyprus
- 1505: in Spain the Concord of Salamanca is signed: Ferdinand the Catholic becomes the regent of Castile and Felipe I the Fair and his wife Juana are proclaimed kings.
- 1518: from Bornos (Cádiz, Spain) the Spanish military man Fadrique Enríquez de Ribera leaves on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
- 1682: in Rome, Pope Innocent XI declares the leaden books of Granada (Spain) apocryphal and false.
- 1700: in Versailles (France) the Bourbon dynasty was established in Spain, with the proclamation of Felipe de Anjou as King of Spain with the name of Felipe V.
- 1818: in the current United States, the Franco-Argentine corsair Hippolyte de Bouchard, commanding the frigates Argentina and Chacabuco, seizes the Spanish plaza of San Carlos de Monterrey (current city of Salinas).
- 1822: in Argentina, the provinces of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe celebrate the Treaty of Benegas.
- 1833: in Bengkulu (Sumatra), at 15:00 local time, an earthquake measuring 8.9 degrees on the Richter scale causes a tsunami that will cause damage in the Seychelles islands, off the coast of Africa.
- 1842: in Paraguay, through the decree of Freedom of Wombs, the consuls López and Alonso ordered the gradual abolition of slavery.
- 1843: in Madrid (Spain), Salustiano de Olózaga replaces Joaquín María López as Prime Minister.
- 1849: England signs an agreement with the Province of Buenos Aires (governed by Juan Manuel de Rosas) by which it withdraws from the blockade of the Río de la Plata, which it carried out together with France.
- 1852: an American squad arrives in Japan, as part of its practice of world territorial expansion.
- 1859: La Gloire, the first armored frigate, built by the French engineer Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme, leaves the Toulon shipyard (France).
- 1859: Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species is published in England.
- 1870: in Paraguay, the Constituent Convention becomes the Electoral Congress and elects Cirilo Antonio Rivarola and Cayo Miltos as president and vice president of the Republic, respectively. The National Constitution is promulgated.
- 1900: the United States Army invades Colombia – under the pretext of ensuring the service of the railways – as part of the United States’ policy of ensuring its interests in Latin America.
- 1903: the commercial port of Port Arthur, current Lushun, opens in China.
- 1904: the first test of a crawler-mounted tractor is carried out in Stockton, California.
- 1918: in Agram (Zagreb), Croats, Slovenians and Serbs proclaim their independence.
- 1924: the battleship Spain disappears in the Atlantic Ocean off Morocco due to a great storm.
- 1929: Julio Urquijo Ibarra, new representative of the Basque language, takes office in the Royal Spanish Academy.
- 1932: in Germany, Paul von Hindenburg (President of the Weimar Republic) negotiates with Adolf Hitler the formation of a new government.
- 1938: England invites Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Transjordan and the Jewish Agency to participate in a conference on the British Mandate of Palestine.
- 1939: in Spain the CSIC (Higher Council for Scientific Research) is created by decree-law.
- 1944: In the concentration camp of Birkenau (Poland), the SS destroy the gas chambers in an attempt to hide the activities of the camp from the Soviet troops.
- 1944: Stanislav Mikolajczyk, Polish Prime Minister in exile, resigns under pressure from Western allies to have the Curzón line recognized as a Polish border.
- 1944: in Italy —in the framework of World War II— the Battle of Monte Castello begins, between the Brazilian expeditionary force and the Nazi German troops.
- 1944: the first incursion of American B-29 planes leaves the Mariana Islands, which will bombard the civilian population in Tokyo.
- 1945: an exhibition of royal tombs is held in the monastery of Poblet (Spain).
- 1946: general elections are held in Uruguay. The Tomás Berreta-Luis Batlle Berres formula wins.
- 1948: in Venezuela, President Rómulo Gallegos is overthrown by a coup.
- 1949: In Great Britain the Iron and Steel Act is promulgated, by which the iron and steel industry is nationalized.
- 1963: In the United States, Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald, supposed assassin of US President John F. Kennedy.
- 1969: The United States and the Soviet Union sign the SALT Accords.
- 1969: Apollo 12 lands in the Pacific Ocean, ending the fourth manned mission to the Moon, and the second to descend to its surface.
- 1974: in the Afar depression of the Great Rift Valley (Ethiopia), the American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovers the fossil remains of Lucy, a 20-year-old adult woman and a meter tall of the Australopithecus afarensis species, 3, 2 million years.
- 1976: 60,000 people die in Turkey due to an earthquake.
- 1978: In Bolivia, General David Padilla betrays the Republic and carries out a coup.
- 1985: Pope John Paul II inaugurates the extraordinary synod of bishops.
- 1989: in Italy, the Central Committee of the Italian Communist Party approves Achille Occhetto’s plan for the re-founding of the party.
- 1991: Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury and Kiss drummer Eric Carr die
- 1994: in Chile, during a visit to vineyards in the Maipo Valley, the French ampelographer Jean-Michel Boursiquot identifies the Carmenère variety in Viña Carmen, located in Alto Jahuel, which was believed to be extinct in the world.
- 2012: In some Latin American countries, Primate Pride Day is celebrated for the first time. commemorating the publication of the book The Origin of Species, by British naturalist Charles Darwin (1859), and the discovery of the fossil remains of Lucy.
- 2014: the general elections were held in Honduras in which the candidate for the National Party of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández was chosen. Media and users of social networks announced an Electoral Fraud giving as the virtual winner the candidate of Freedom and Refoundation Xiomara Castro de Zelaya. Said Fraud provoked demonstrations the following days after the Supreme Electoral Tribunal found itself in a scandal over altered acts against the candidate of the National Anti-Corruption Party Salvador Nasralla and the candidate for the Liberal Party of Honduras, Mauricio Villeda.
- 2015: in Tunis, city of Tunis, a terrorist attack takes place on a bus leaving the balance of 14 presidential guards dead.
- 2016: Hurricane Otto, category 2, makes landfall in southeastern Nicaragua with winds of 178 km / h.
- 2016: El Salvador has an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale.
- 2019: The 47th American Music Awards takes place in Los Angeles, California.
- 2019: The Junior Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Gliwice, Poland, following Roksana Weigel’s victory in 2018.
- 2019: Singer Goo Hara passes away due to suicide.
Who was Born “A Day as Today”?

November 24 – A Day as Today – Births
- 1394: Charles I of Orleans, French poet (d. 1465).
- 1583: Juan de Jáuregui, Spanish poet, scholar and painter (d. 1641).
- 1632: Baruch Spinoza, Sephardic-Dutch philosopher (d. 1677).
- 1655: Charles XI, Swedish King (d. 1697).
- 1712: Charles-Michel de l’Epée, French pedagogue (d. 1789).
- 1713: Junípero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary (d. 1784).
- 1713: Laurence Sterne, British novelist and humorist (d. 1768).
- 1724: María Amalia de Sajonia, Neapolitan and Spanish queen consort (f. 1760).
- 1742: Antonio de Capmany, Spanish writer, historian and politician (d. 1813).
- 1784: Zachary Taylor, American politician, president between 1849 and 1850 (d. 1850).
- 1794: Juan Cruz Varela, Argentine poet and politician (f. 1839).
- 1826: Carlo Collodi, Italian writer, author of Pinocchio (d. 1890).
- 1829: Juan Facundo Riaño y Montero, Spanish Arabist, historian and antiquarian (d. 1901).
- 1846: Ángel Lizcano Monedero, Spanish painter and illustrator (d. 1929).
- 1848: Valeriano Menéndez Conde y Álvarez, Spanish priest and bishop (d. 1916).
- 1858: Blanche Edwards-Pilliet, French physician and professor of medicine (d. 1941).
- 1862: Bernhard Stavenhagen, German conductor, pianist and composer (d. 1914).
- 1864: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901).
- 1866: Margaret Windeyer, Australian librarian and suffragette (d. 1939).
- 1868 – Scott Joplin, American composer and pianist (d. 1917).
- 1874: Charles William Miller, Brazilian soccer player (d. 1953).
- 1877: Alben Barkley, American politician (d. 1956).
- 1881: Gustavo Arboleda, Colombian historian and genealogist (d. 1938).
- 1885: Santiago Roel Melo, Mexican lawyer, politician, writer and historian (d. 1957).
- 1886: Rafael Cansinos Assens, Spanish writer (d. 1964).
- 1886: Georges Vantongerloo, Belgian artist (d. 1965).
- 1884: Yitzjak Ben-Zvi, Israeli politician, president between 1952 and 1963 (d. 1963).
- 1887: Erich von Manstein, German field marshal (d. 1973).
- 1888: Dale Carnegie, American writer (d. 1955).
- 1888: Juan Aguilar Catena, Spanish journalist and writer (d. 1965).
- 1891: Mariano Ospina Pérez, Colombian engineer and politician, president between 1946 and 1950 (d. 1976).
- 1893: Francisco Lomuto, Argentine tango conductor, composer and pianist (f. 1950).
- 1893: Marcos Redondo, Spanish baritone (f. 1976).
- 1896: María Esther Podestá, Argentine actress (d. 1983).
- 1897: Lucky Luciano, Italian-American mobster (d. 1962).
- 1904: Ignacio Cepeda Dávila, Mexican politician (d. 1947).
- 1906: Conrad Hansen, German pianist (d. 2002).
- 1908: Libertad Lamarque, Argentine actress and singer (f. 2000).
- 1911: Georges Dargaud, French cartoonist (d. 1990).
- 1912: Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (d. 1986).
- 1913: Geraldine Fitzgerald, American actress of Irish origin (d. 2005).
- 1913ː Cecilia Helena Martínez Mendoza, Venezuelan female voice over (f. 2015)
- 1914: Agostino Casaroli, Italian cardinal (d. 1998).
- 1917: Howard Duff, American actor (d. 1990).
- 1918: Wild Bill Davis, American composer and musician (d. 1995).
- 1920: Jorge Mistral, Spanish actor (d. 1972).
- 1923: Octavio Lepage, Venezuelan politician (d. 2017).
- 1925: Simon van der Meer, Dutch scientist, 1984 Nobel laureate in Physics (d. 2011).
- 1926: Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese physicist, 1957 Nobel laureate in Physics.
- 1927: Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (f. 1999).
- 1927: Adrián Escudero, Spanish soccer player (d. 2011).
- 1929: José Borello, Argentine soccer player (f. 2013).
- 1929: John Henry Johnson, American football player (d. 2011).
- 1934: Claudio Prieto, Spanish composer (d. 2015).
- 1934: Alfred Schnittke, Russian-German composer (d. 1998).
- 1936: Gerardo Malla, Spanish actor and theater director.
- 1938: Willy Claes, Belgian politician.
- 1938: Oscar Robertson, American basketball player.
- 1938: Francisco A. Rodríguez, Panamanian politician.
- 1939: Martina Iñíguez, Argentine poet and tango lyricist.
- 1940: Eric Wilson, Canadian writer of children’s stories.
- 1941: Horacio Altuna, Argentine cartoonist.
- 1941: Pete Best, British drummer, of the band The Beatles.
- 1941: Donald “Duck” Dunn, American bassist (Booker T. & the M.G.’s, The Blues Brothers and The Mar-Keys) (f. 2012).
- 1942: Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian.
- 1942: Juan Alsina, Spanish politician and engineer (d. 2011).
- 1943: Dave Bing, American basketball player.
- 1943: Manolo Sanlúcar, Spanish guitarist and composer.
- 1945: David Sánchez Juliao, Colombian writer and diplomat (d. 2011).
- 1946: Ted Bundy, American serial killer.
- 1946: Penelope Jones Halsall, British writer.
- 1947: Jorge Obeid, Argentine politician (d. 2014).
- 1947: Dwight Schultz, American actor.
- 1948: Julián Muñoz, Spanish politician.
- 1948: Elena Tasisto, Argentine actress (f. 2013).
- 1949: Manuel Donayre, Peruvian Creole singer.
- 1952: Laura León, Mexican actress and singer.
- 1954: Emir Kusturica, Serbian filmmaker and musician.
- 1955: Clem Burke, American drummer, of the band The Ramones.
- 1957: Denise Crosby, American actress.
- 1957: Chris Hayes, American guitarist, of the band Huey Lewis & The News.
- 1958: Roy Aitken, British footballer.
- 1958: Alain Chabat, French actor and filmmaker.
- 1960: Aleida Guevara, pediatric allergist and Cuban politician, daughter of Che Guevara.
- 1960: Amanda Wyss, American actress.
- 1961: Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist.
- 1962: John Squire, British guitarist, of the band The Stone Roses.
- 1964: Tony Rombola, American guitarist, of the band Godsmack.
- 1965: Tom Boyd, British footballer.
- 1965: Shirley Henderson, British actress.
- 1965: Ricardo Chávez, Mexican actor.
- 1969: Rob Nicholson, American bassist, of the band Rob Zombie and Ozzy.
- 1970: Julieta Venegas, Mexican singer and songwriter.
- 1973: Carolina Sandoval, Venezuelan television presenter, journalist, broadcaster, writer and theater actress.
- 1973: Alejandro Ávila, Mexican actor and singer.
- 1974: Stephen Merchant, British writer, director, radio host, comedian and actor.
- 1974: Aylín Mujica, Cuban actress.
- 1977: Colin Hanks, American actor.
- 1978: Katherine Heigl, American actress.
- 1979: Joseba Llorente Etxarri, Spanish footballer.
- 1980: Beth Phoenix, American professional wrestler.
- 1981: Laura Bustamante, film actress, dubbing actress, and Mexican announcer.
- 1983: José Celestino López, Venezuelan baseball player.
- 1983: Gwilym Lee, British actor.
- 1986: Micaela Vázquez, Argentine actress.
- 1986: Pedro León Sánchez Gil, Spanish footballer.
- 1987: Jeremain Lens, Dutch footballer.
- 1987: Bogdan Milić, Montenegrin footballer.
- 1990: Sarah Hyland, American actress.
- 1991: Baghdad Bounedjah, Algerian footballer.
- 1993: Fridolina Rolfö, Swedish footballer.
- 1998: Peyton Meyer, American actor.
Who Left Us “A Day as Today”?

November 24 – A Day as Today – Deaths
- 1531: Juan Ecolampadio, German religious (b.1482).
- 1572: John Knox, Scottish religious (b. 1514).
- 1658: Ignacio Molarja, Italian Jesuit missionary, and explorer of New Spain (b. 1610).
- 1789: Pedro de Alcántara Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish nobleman (b. 1730).
- 1848: Lord Melbourne, British politician and diplomat (b. 1779).
- 1851: Marcelino Oráa, Spanish military man (b. 1788).
- 1864: José María Cornejo, Salvadoran president (b. 1788).
- 1870: Count of Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse), French poet born in Uruguay (b. 1846).
- 1893: Charles-François Stallaert, Belgian writer (b. 1820).
- 1916 – Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor (b.1840).
- 1920: Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (b. 1854).
- 1927: Ionel Bratianu, Romanian statesman (b.1864).
- 1929: Georges Clemenceau, French politician (b.1841).
- 1940: James Craig, British politician (b. 1871).
- 1945 – Hans Geiger, German physicist (b.1882).
- 1947: Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet and essayist (b. 1876).
- 1955: Jorge Bustos León, Chilean politician (b. 1890).
- 1957: Diego Rivera, Mexican communist muralist (b. 1886).
- 1958: Robert Cecil, British politician and diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1937 (b. 1864).
- 1963: Lee Harvey Oswald, suspect in the assassination of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939).
- 1961: Ruth Chatterton, American actress (b. 1892).
- 1966: Ramón Amaya Amador, Honduran writer and journalist (b.1916).
- 1978: George Moscone, American politician (b.1929).
- 1990: Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine motorist (b.1934).
- 1991: Eric Carr, American drummer, of the band Kiss (b.1950).
- 1991: Anton Furst, British film producer (b.1944).
- 1991: Freddie Mercury, British singer-songwriter and musician, of the band Queen (b. 1946).
- 1992: Rafael García Herreros, priest and Colombian television presenter, founder of the Minuto de Dios Corporation (b. 1909).
- 1992: Raúl Sáez, Chilean engineer and economist (b. 1913).
- 1993: Antonio Espino y Mora “Clavillazo”, Mexican actor (b. 1910).
- 1993: Albert Collins, singer and American blues guitarist (b.1932).
- 1995: Jeffrey Lynn, American actor (b.1909).
- 2001: Melanie Thornton, German-American singer (La Bouche) (b. 1967).
- 2002: John Rawls, American philosopher (b.1921).
- 2003: Snowflake, albino gorilla at the Barcelona Zoo (b. 1963).
- 2004: Arthur Hailey, British writer (b.1920).
- 2004: Juan Pérez de Tudela, Spanish Americanist historian (b. 1922).
- 2005: Pat Morita, American actor (b.1932).
- 2006: Valentin Elizalde, singer (b.1979).
- 2007: Casey Calvert, American musician (b.1982).
- 2008: Arturo Giolito, Chilean musician and founder of the band “Giolito y su Combo” (b. 1932).
- 2010: Sergio Valech, Chilean Bishop Emeritus (b.1927).
- 2011: Antonio Domingo Bussi, Argentine military man (b.1926).
- 2012: Tony Leblanc, Spanish actor, director and humorist (b.1922).
- 2015: Miguel Ocampo, Argentine painter and diplomat (b.1922).
- 2016: Marcos Ana, Spanish poet who spent twenty-three years as a political prisoner during the Franco regime (b.1920).
- 2016: Florence Henderson, American actress (b.1934).
- 2018: Enrique Bernales, Peruvian constitutional lawyer and politician (b.1940).
- 2019: Goo Hara, South Korean singer and actress (b.1991).
What is Celebrated “A Day as Today”?

November 24 – A Day as Today – Celebrations
- World Day without Shopping.
- Latin America: Primate Pride Day.
Catholic Santoral “A Day as Today”

November 24 – A Day as Today – Catholic Santoral
- St. Augustine Schoeffler
- St. Albert of Louvain
- Saint Alexander (martyr)
- Saint Andrew Dung Lac and companions
- San Colmano de Uama
- Saint Crescentian martyr
- Saint Chrysogonus of Aquileia
- Santa Firmina de Amelia
- Santa Flora of Córdoba
- Saint Joseph Nguyên Van Luu
- Saint Joseph Tuan
- Saint John Louis Bonnard
- Saint Luke Vu Ba Loan
- Santa Maria of Cordoba
- San Porciano
- Saint Protasio
- Saint Roman of Blaye
- Blessed Cava Balsam
- Blessed Agnes Tsao Kui
- Blessed Maria Ana Sala
- Blessed Niceta of Santa Prudencia Plaja Xifra and companions.
What Sign of the Zodiac Rules those Born “A Day as Today”?

November 24 – A Day as Today – Zodiac sign
♐ Sagittarius:
- Dorian, November 24, 2020.
Credits: Info, Cover Page, Events, Births, Flowers, Celebrations, Santoral, Sagittarius.
November 24 – A Day as Today – Ephemeris in Dorian’s Secrets. (Ephemeris, News, Cinema, Fashion, Daily Horoscopes, Diets, Training, Face Care, Books, LSDD Method 100% Free and Effective)