On This Day November 24th

 OTD

November 24th is the three hundredth twenty-seventh day of the year, and there are 37 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Events

 1221 – Genghis Khan defeats the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus, completing the Mongol conquest of Central Asia.

1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.

1835 – The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).

1877 – Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.

1917 – In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department were killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.

1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.

1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby on live television. Robert H. Jackson takes a photograph of the shooting that will win the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Photography.

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.

2013 – Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.

 

Birthdays

 1583 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet and painter (d. 1641)

1632 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and scholar (d. 1677)

1806 – William Webb Ellis, English priest, created Rugby football (d. 1872)

1840 – John Alfred Brashear, American scientist, telescope maker and educator (d. 1920)

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)

1897 – Lucky Luciano, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1962)

1925 – William F. Buckley, Jr., American publisher and author, founded the National Review (d. 2008)

1941 – Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (d. 2012)

1946 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989)

1978 – Katherine Heigl, American actress and producer

1990 – Sarah Hyland, American actress

  

 

Holiday Highlight

 Dev Diwali

Diwali is a major festival celebrated by Hindu communities in India. It marks the return of Lord Rama, his wife Sita, and brother Laxman after 14 years of exile and the defeat of the demon Ravana. Homes are illuminated with diyas (earthen lamps) and lights, and people enjoy sweets (mithai) and card games.

The celebrations continue with Dev Deepawali, which occurs 15 days later. Known as 'Kartik Purnima' or the Diwali of the Gods, this festival is best experienced at the ghats of Varanasi, where thousands of lamps light up the steps, reflected in the Ganges. The atmosphere is filled with hymn chanting and drum beats as devotees dip in the holy river, believing it washes away sins and brings them closer to the divine.

Dev Deepawali honors Lord Shiva, who defeated the demons Vidyunmali, Tarakaksha, and Viryavana, collectively known as Tripurasura. This victory is celebrated annually in Varanasi, the city of Lord Shiva.

 

Holidays And Observance

Better Conversation Week

Separation Week

National Adoption Week  

National Bible Week  

National Family Week  

National Farm-City Week                                                                                                                               

National Game & Puzzle Week -

National Global Entrepreneurship Week  

Sherlock Holmes Weekend  

World Antimicrobial Awareness   

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