Unforgettable Events on November 24 in the Past

In this video, we're looking back at some unforgettable events that happened on November 24 in the past. November 24 has been a date with a lot of history! Watch this video to learn about some of the most important events that happened on November 24 in the past, and enjoy some of the best stories about this special date!

1639 1st observation of transit of #Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree - helped establish size of the Solar System

1703 1st Lutheran pastor ordained in America, Justus Falckner at Philadelphia

1775 Continental #Congress approves resolution barring blacks from the #army

1832 South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification, declaring the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 unconstitutional in and unenforceable in South Carolina, precipitating the Nullification Crisis which presaged the American Civil War

1835 Texas Rangers, mounted police force authorized by Texas Provisional Government

1859 English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" radically changing the view of evolution and laying the foundation for evolutionary biology

1869 American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland)

1874 American #inventor Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire

1896 1st US absentee voting law enacted by Vermont

1912 Conflict in the Balkans grows into an acute international crisis with major powers supporting either Austria or Serbia

1916 Mexican and US representatives sign a protocol at Atlantic City, under which Pershing's troops will withdraw and each nation's army will guard the border. President Carranza of Mexico will refuse to accept it

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

1947 The US House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists

1954 Air Force One, 1st US Presidential airplane, christened #potus

1963, Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald. His death left many questions unanswered

1966 400 die of respiratory failure & heart attacks in New York City smog, smoggiest day in city's history

1969 Apollo 12 returns to Earth

1971 American "Dan Cooper" hijacks a plane, extorts $200,000 in ransom, jumps out of the plane over Washington State and is never seen again #conspiracy

1974 Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev agree to a framework for the SALT-II treaty to reduce each side's number of nuclear weapons, at the Vladivostok Summit

1981 1st air-launched cruise missile tested

1993 Brady bill passes establishing 5-day waiting period for US handgun sales

2012 Gangnam Style becomes the most viewed Youtube video surpassing 808 million views

2016 International research team publishes discovery of 1,500 new viruses found in invertebrates

2019 Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announces a late-bid to be the US Democratic presidential candidate #nyc

2022 British born Flossie aged almost 27 crowned the world's oldest #cat by the Guinness Book of Records