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The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army was officially founded in 1966 from peasant self-defense groups formed from 1948 during La Violencia.
November 24 in History
2016 — The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's more than 50-year-long civil war
November 24 spans 51 recorded events across recorded history, from 380 to 2023. Below is a curated digest of the most significant moments tied to this date.
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Historical Events
51 events
380 – 2023
Today in history
More major events on November 24
The featured story and these ranked highlights form a quick summary. Every recorded event remains available in the chronology below.
- 1642 Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania). Source
- 1940 World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers. Source
- 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. Source
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The FARC–EP was a far-left Marxist–Leninist guerrilla group involved in the continuing Colombian conflict starting in 1964.
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La Violencia, which began in 1948, was a period of civil war in Colombia that led to the formation of the FARC–EP.
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The FARC–EP employed a variety of military tactics, including terrorism, in their fight against the Colombian government.
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The Colombian conflict, which involved the FARC–EP, lasted for more than 50 years and had a significant impact on the country's politics and economy.
380
Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
Roman emperor from 379 to 395
847
An earthquake hits Syria, causing multiple casualties and damages in Antioch, Damascus and Mosul.
Earthquake affecting Syria and Lebanon
1190
Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem.
Italian nobleman and crusader, King of Jerusalem from 1190 to 1192
1221
Genghis Khan defeats the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus, completing the Mongol conquest of Central Asia.
Khan of the Mongol Empire from 1206 to 1227
1227
Gąsawa massacre: At an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa, Polish Prince Leszek the White, Duke Henry the Bearded and others are attacked by assassins while bathing.
1227 massacre of Piast-dynasty dukes in Gąsawa, Poland
1248
An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages.
Limestone mountain of the Chartreuse Mountains, southeastern France
1359
Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father, Hugh IV of Cyprus, abdicates.
King of Cyprus from 1358 to 1369
1429
Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.
Medieval Anglo-French conflicts, 1337–1453
1542
Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.
1542 English victory over Scotland
1642
Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
Dutch seafarer, explorer and merchant (1603–1659)
1750
Tarabai, regent of the Maratha Empire, imprisons Rajaram II of Satara for refusing to remove Balaji Baji Rao from the post of peshwa.
Regent of the Maratha Empire from 1700 to 1708
1832
South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were null and void in the state, beginning the Nullification Crisis.
U.S. state
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).
History of the Texas Rangers
1850
Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
Part of the First Schleswig War
1859
British naturalist Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is published.
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
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.
1877
Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
English novelist (1820–1878)
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.
Early professional football team from Masillon, Ohio
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.
1922
Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad.
Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.
1929
The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement officially begins when a group of mainly the former White Guard members, led by Vihtori Kosola, interrupted communism occasion at the Workers' House in Lapua, Finland.
Far-right political movement in Finland (1929–32)
1932
In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
U.S. federal law enforcement agency
1935
The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
Left-wing political party in Senegal during the 1930s
1940
World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
Global conflict (1939–1945)
1941
World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces.
WWII program to provide U.S. allies with free armaments
1943
World War II: At the battle of Makin the USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
Battle of the Pacific Theater of World War II
1944
World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.
Inactive United States Air Force unit
1962
Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
1947–1991 geopolitical rivalry between US and USSR
1962
The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
British satirical television programme (1962–1963)
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.
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.
President of DR Congo and Zaire from 1965 to 1997
1966
Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
1966 aviation accident
1969
Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to land on the Moon.
1961–1972 American crewed lunar exploration program
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.
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.
American paleoanthropologist
1976
The Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.
November 1976 earthquake in eastern Turkey
1989
After a week of mass protests against the Communist regime known as the Velvet Revolution, Miloš Jakeš and the entire Politburo of the Czechoslovak Communist Party resign from office.
This brings an effective end to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia.
1991
Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches on STS-44.
1972–2011 United States human spaceflight program
1992
China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashes on approach to Guilin Qifengling Airport in Guilin, China, killing all 141 people on board.
1992 aviation accident
2001
Crossair Flight 3597 crashes in Bassersdorf near Zurich Airport, killing 24 people, including singer Melanie Thornton and two members of the German band Passion Fruit.
2001 aviation accident in Switzerland
2009
The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, is founded in Bucharest, Romania.
Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative
2012
A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.
Fatal industrial accident
2013
Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.
Country in West Asia
2015
A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria–Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.
Branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces
2015
A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others.
2015 terrorist attack in Egypt
2015
An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.
Islamic State terror attack in Tunisia
2017
A terrorist attack on a Mosque in Al-Rawda, North Sinai, Egypt kills 311 people and injures 128.
Terrorist bombing in a Sinai mosque, Egypt
2022
Five days after the general elections which resulted in a hung parliament, opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim is officially named as the 10th prime minister of Malaysia.
2023
Hibiscus Rising, commemorating David Oluwale, is unveiled in Leeds.
Sculpture by Yinka Shonibare in Leeds