380 – Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
1227 – Polish Prince Leszek I the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa.
1248 – In the middle of the night a mass on the north side of Mont Granier suddenly collapsed, in one of the largest historical rockslope failures known in Europe.
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).
1807: Mohawk Chief Thayendanegea, also known by his English name, Joseph Brant, died at his home in Burlington, Ontario. Before dying, he reportedly said, "Have pity on the poor Indians. If you have any influence with the great, endeavour to use it for their good."
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 – On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, by British naturalist Charles Darwin, is published in England
1863 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Lookout Mountain southwest of 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 classic 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.
1918: The Yugoslav National Council--an organization of South Slavic nationalists led by Ante Trumbic of Croatia--addressed Crown Prince Alexander, son of the ailing King Peter and de facto ruler of Serbia, about its concerns regarding Italian claims on South Slavic territory in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1922 – Nine Irish Republican Army (IRA) members, including Robert Erskine Childers, a popular Irish author, are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. One of the leaders, along with Eamon de Valera, of the Republican forces in the Irish Civil War that followed the partition of Ireland in 1921, Childers had been convicted of illegally carrying a revolver.
1922: The Colorado River Compact was signed in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This historical compact, negotiated by the seven Colorado River Basin states and the federal government, defined the relationship between the upper basin states, where most of the river’s supply originated, and the lower basin states, where most of the water demands were developing.
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.
1941: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Edwards v. California, unanimously struck down a California law prohibiting people from bringing impoverished non-residents into the state.
1943 – World War II: 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. One hundred eleven U.S. B-29 Superfortress bombers raid Tokyo for the first time since Capt. Jimmy Doolittle's raid in 1942. Their target: the Nakajima aircraft engine works.
1947: The House of Representatives voted 346 to 17 to approve citations of contempt against 10 Hollywood writers, directors, and producers. These men had refused to cooperate at hearings dealing with communism in the movie industry held by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). The "Hollywood 10," as the men were known, were sentenced to one year in jail. The Supreme Court later upheld the contempt charges,
1950 – The "Storm of the Century", a violent snowstorm, takes shape on this date before paralyzing the northeastern United States and the Appalachians the next day, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia, records 57 inches of snow. 353 people would die as a result of the storm.
1962 – 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 – At 12:20 p.m., in the basement of the Dallas police department headquarters, Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is shot to death two days after the assassination by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, in the first live, televised murder.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.
1969: U.S. Army officials announced that 1st Lt. William Calley would be court-martialed for the premeditated murder of 109 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai.
1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 into a raging thunderstorm over Washington State 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.
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.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
John of the Cross, Confessor. Double.
Commemoration of St. Chrysogonus, Martyr.
Contemporary Western
Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Pierre Dumoulin-Borie,
and other Vietnamese Martyrs
Chrysogonus
Colmán of Cloyne
Firmina
Flavian of Ricina
and other Vietnamese Martyrs
Chrysogonus
Colmán of Cloyne
Firmina
Flavian of Ricina
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Jehu Jones (Lutheran)
Justus Falckner (Lutheran)
Eastern Orthodox
November 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Afterfeast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple
Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome (101)
Great-martyr Mercurius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (259)
Saint Hermogenes, Bishop of Agrigentum (c. 260) or (c.824)
Martyrs Procopius and Christopher, by the sword (274)
Great-martyr Catherine of Alexandria (305)
Martyrs Augusta (Faustina) the Empress, Porphyrius Stratelates,
and 200 soldiers at Alexandria with Great-martyr Catherine (305)
Martyrs Philoumenos and Christopher, by the sword
Martyr Eugene (Eugenios), buried alive inside a wall
Martyr Chrysogenes (Chrysogonos), in Aquileia in Italy, under Diocletian
Hieromartyr Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria (311)
Martyr Alexander at Corinth (360)
Martyr Theodore, at Antioch, by beheading (361)
Venerable Malchus of Chalcis in Syria (5th century)
Venerable Karion
Venerable Mark of Triglia
Venerable Gregory, monk of the monastery of the Golden Rock
(Chryse Petra) in Pontus
Saint Felicissimus, a martyr who suffered in Perugia in Italy,
probably under Diocletian (c. 303)
Saint Firmina, a virgin-martyr in Amelia (Ameria)
in Umbria under Diocletian (c. 303)
Saint Crescentian, a martyr in Rome with Sts Cyriacus,
Largus and Smaragdus, under Maxentius (309)
Venerable Protasius, Bishop of Milan (352)
Saint Romanus of Le Mans (Romanus of Bordeaux),
a Gallo-Roman priest who converted the pagans
living at the mouth of the Gironde (385)
Saint Minver (Menefrida), Virgin of Cornwall (5th century)
Saint Kenan (Cianan), first bishop in Ireland to build his Cathedral,
at Damleag or Duleek in Meath, of stone (c. 500)
Venerable Portianus of Arthone, a slave who became a monk
and then Abbot of Miranda in Auvergne in France (527 or 533)
Saint Colmán of Cloyne, first Bishop of Cloyne (c. 600)
Saint Leopardinus, monk and Abbot of St Symphorian of Vivaris
in Berry in France, murdered and venerated as a martyr (7th century)
Saint Bieuzy, born in Britain, he followed St Gildas to Brittany
and was martyred there (7th century)
Saint Eanflæd (Eanfleda), daughter of the holy King Edwin of Northumbria
and St Æthelburh of Kent, Abbess at Whitby Abbey
jointly with her daughter Ælfflæd (c. 700)
Saint Marinus, a monk at Maurienne in Savoy, and afterwards a hermit
near the monastery of Chandor where he was martyred by the Saracens (731)
Saints Flora and Maria, two virgin-martyrs in Cordoba in Spain
who gave themselves up to the Moors and were beheaded
by order of Abderrahman II (851)
Venerable Mastridia of Alexandria (1060)
Martyr Philothea of Romania (1060)
Hieromartyr Mercurius of Smolensk (1238)
Venerable Luke, steward of the Kiev Caves (13th century)
St. Nicodemus the Younger of Philokalos monastery in Thessaloniki (c. 1305)
Venerable Mercurius, the Faster of the Kievan Caves, far caves (14th century)
Venerable Simon, Abbot of Soiga Monastery, Vologda (1562)
Afterfeast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple
Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome (101)
Great-martyr Mercurius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (259)
Saint Hermogenes, Bishop of Agrigentum (c. 260) or (c.824)
Martyrs Procopius and Christopher, by the sword (274)
Great-martyr Catherine of Alexandria (305)
Martyrs Augusta (Faustina) the Empress, Porphyrius Stratelates,
and 200 soldiers at Alexandria with Great-martyr Catherine (305)
Martyrs Philoumenos and Christopher, by the sword
Martyr Eugene (Eugenios), buried alive inside a wall
Martyr Chrysogenes (Chrysogonos), in Aquileia in Italy, under Diocletian
Hieromartyr Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria (311)
Martyr Alexander at Corinth (360)
Martyr Theodore, at Antioch, by beheading (361)
Venerable Malchus of Chalcis in Syria (5th century)
Venerable Karion
Venerable Mark of Triglia
Venerable Gregory, monk of the monastery of the Golden Rock
(Chryse Petra) in Pontus
Saint Felicissimus, a martyr who suffered in Perugia in Italy,
probably under Diocletian (c. 303)
Saint Firmina, a virgin-martyr in Amelia (Ameria)
in Umbria under Diocletian (c. 303)
Saint Crescentian, a martyr in Rome with Sts Cyriacus,
Largus and Smaragdus, under Maxentius (309)
Venerable Protasius, Bishop of Milan (352)
Saint Romanus of Le Mans (Romanus of Bordeaux),
a Gallo-Roman priest who converted the pagans
living at the mouth of the Gironde (385)
Saint Minver (Menefrida), Virgin of Cornwall (5th century)
Saint Kenan (Cianan), first bishop in Ireland to build his Cathedral,
at Damleag or Duleek in Meath, of stone (c. 500)
Venerable Portianus of Arthone, a slave who became a monk
and then Abbot of Miranda in Auvergne in France (527 or 533)
Saint Colmán of Cloyne, first Bishop of Cloyne (c. 600)
Saint Leopardinus, monk and Abbot of St Symphorian of Vivaris
in Berry in France, murdered and venerated as a martyr (7th century)
Saint Bieuzy, born in Britain, he followed St Gildas to Brittany
and was martyred there (7th century)
Saint Eanflæd (Eanfleda), daughter of the holy King Edwin of Northumbria
and St Æthelburh of Kent, Abbess at Whitby Abbey
jointly with her daughter Ælfflæd (c. 700)
Saint Marinus, a monk at Maurienne in Savoy, and afterwards a hermit
near the monastery of Chandor where he was martyred by the Saracens (731)
Saints Flora and Maria, two virgin-martyrs in Cordoba in Spain
who gave themselves up to the Moors and were beheaded
by order of Abderrahman II (851)
Venerable Mastridia of Alexandria (1060)
Martyr Philothea of Romania (1060)
Hieromartyr Mercurius of Smolensk (1238)
Venerable Luke, steward of the Kiev Caves (13th century)
St. Nicodemus the Younger of Philokalos monastery in Thessaloniki (c. 1305)
Venerable Mercurius, the Faster of the Kievan Caves, far caves (14th century)
Venerable Simon, Abbot of Soiga Monastery, Vologda (1562)
New Hieromartyr Eugraphus Evarestov, Archpriest (1919)
New Hieromartyrs Eugene and Michael, Priests (1937)
Virgin-martyr Anysia (1937)
New Hieromartyrs Alexander, Alexis, John, Cornelius,
and Metrophanes, Priests (1937)
Commemoration of Hieroconfessor Nikita (Lekhan)
of Poltava and Kharkiv (1985)
New Hieromartyrs Eugene and Michael, Priests (1937)
Virgin-martyr Anysia (1937)
New Hieromartyrs Alexander, Alexis, John, Cornelius,
and Metrophanes, Priests (1937)
of Poltava and Kharkiv (1985)
Coptic Orthodox
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