November 24th, 1944

Born on November 24th, 1944

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What happened on November 24th, 1944?

November 24th, 1944

World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/73rd_Air_Division

What else happened on November 24th?

November 24th, 2015

A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft was shot down by a Turkish fighter jet after the former allegedly strayed into Turkish airspace and ignored warnings to change course.

November 24th, 2012

A fire at a clothing factory in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, killed at least 117 people.

November 24th, 2009

The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, is launched in Bucharest, Romania.

November 24th, 1976

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck eastern Turkey, destroying 80 per cent of the buildings in the area, with at least 4,000 casualties.

November 24th, 1971

After collecting a ransom payout of $200,000, D. B. Cooper (depicted) parachuted out of the rear stairway of the airplane he had hijacked over the Pacific Northwest and disappeared.

November 24th, 1963

During a live television broadcast, businessman Jack Ruby shot and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated U.S. president John F. Kennedy, fueling numerous conspiracy theories.

November 24th, 1950

The "Great Appalachian Storm", a large extratropical cyclone, struck the east coast of the United States before moving northeast.

November 24th, 1943

World War II: Following the American capture of Makin Atoll, USS Liscome Bay was sunk by a torpedo from Japanese submarine I-175, killing 644.

November 24th, 1941

The Holocaust: The Theresienstadt Ghetto was founded as a waystation to Nazi extermination camps and a "retirement settlement" for elderly and prominent Jews to mislead their communities about the Final Solution.

November 24th, 1925

The Eugene O'Neill Theatre opened on Broadway, New York, with a production of the musical Mayflowers.

November 24th, 1922

Irish Civil War: Irish nationalist author Erskine Childers was executed by the Irish Free State for illegally carrying a semi-automatic pistol.

November 24th, 1906

The second of two games between two Ohio football teams took place, after which accusations were made that players conspired to deliberately lose games.

November 24th, 1863

American Civil War: As part of the Chattanooga campaign in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces captured Lookout Mountain, helping them to begin breaking the Confederate siege of the city.

November 24th, 1859

British naturalist Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on November 24th

Born on November 24th, 1944

72

Sibylle Tönnies

German opinion journalist, sociologist and jurist

*November 24th, 1944, Potsdam †March 25th, 2017

29

Candy Darling

American actress (1944–1974)

*November 24th, 1944, Forest Hills †March 21st, 1974, Manhattan

79

Werner Abelshauser

German economic historian

*November 24th, 1944, Wiesloch

79

Dan Glickman

American businessman and politician

*November 24th, 1944, Wichita

79

Ibrahim Gambari

Nigerian scholar and diplomat

*November 24th, 1944, Ilorin

Same Day
Who's birthday is on November 24th?

53

Shanti Roney

Swedish actor

*November 24th, 1970, Spånga

69

Emir Kusturica

Bosnian film director, actor and musician

*November 24th, 1954, Sarajevo

81

Billy Connolly

Scottish actor and comedian

*November 24th, 1942, Glasgow

62

Arundhati Roy

Indian novelist, essayist, and activist

*November 24th, 1961, Shillong

89

Agustín Edwards Eastman

Chilean publisher and journalist

*November 24th, 1927, 8th arrondissement of Paris †April 24th, 2017, Graneros

86

Mohammad Shafi Qureshi

Founder of the Congress party in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir

*November 24th, 1929, Srinagar †August 28th, 2016, New Delhi

82

Pete Best

British musician, former member of the Beatles

*November 24th, 1941, Chennai

26

Marion Borras

French bicycle racer

*November 24th, 1997, Pontcharra

46

Colin Hanks

American actor (born 1977)

*November 24th, 1977, Sacramento

59

Conleth Hill

Irish actor

*November 24th, 1964, Ballycastle

78

Manolo Sanlúcar

Flamenco composer and guitarist

*November 24th, 1943, Sanlúcar de Barrameda †August 27th, 2022, Jerez de la Frontera

22

Paulius Pultinevičius

Lithuanian chess player

*November 24th, 2001, Marijampolė

42

Ted Bundy

American serial killer (1946–1990)

*November 24th, 1946, Burlington †January 24th, 1989, Florida State Prison

93

Albert Wolsky

American costumer designer

*November 24th, 1930, Paris

67

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

American actor and screenwriter

*November 24th, 1956, Lackawanna

85

Oscar Robertson

American basketball player

*November 24th, 1938, Charlotte

76

Dwight Schultz

American actor (born 1947)

*November 24th, 1947, Baltimore

74

Renate Rudolph

East German handball player

*November 24th, 1949, Leipzig

68

Najib Mikati

Lebanese businessman and politician

*November 24th, 1955, Tripoli

76

Remo H. Largo

Swiss non-fiction writer and university teacher

*November 24th, 1943, Winterthur †November 11th, 2020, Gommiswald

Same year
Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

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Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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