Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: November 24
November 24, 2024 is the 329th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 37 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Sagittarius is your zodiac sign. Topaz is your modern birthstone. Pearl is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: November 24
- 1429 –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 (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
- 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.
- 1922 –Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
- 1941 –World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
- 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.
- 1966 –Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
- 1973 –A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasted only four months.
- 1980 –Assassination of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador.
Who were born on November 24?
- 1826 –Carlo Collodi, Italian author (d. 1890)
- 1919 –David Kossoff, British actor (d. 2005)
- 1929 –Franciszek Kokot, Polish nephrologist
- 1940 –Don Metz, American architect
- 1940 –Paul Tagliabue, retired commissioner of the National Football League
- 1950 –Roscoe Born, American actor
- 1955 –Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer
- 1969 –Rob Nicholson, American musician
- 1974 –Machel Montano, Trinidad & Tobago musician
- 1974 –Stephen Merchant, British comedian
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