November 24 holidays, events
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 World Conjoined Twins Day.
🌏 World Youth Day.
🌏 Evolution Day.
🌏 World Walrus Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇸🇬 Singapore – Grandparents’ Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Mother’s Day.
🇯🇵 Japan – Japanese Cuisine Day.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan – Defense Sports and Technical Organization Employees’ Day.
🇹🇷 Turkey – Teachers’ Day.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – National Flag Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Walrus Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1512 – Shaybani Ubaidullah Khan defeated the Safavid army led by Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur in the Battle of Gijduvan.
– 1642 – Abel Tasman discovered the “Tasmania Islands”.
– 1817 – A duel took place in St. Petersburg between Count A. Zavadovsky and officer V. Sheremetev.
– 1849 – Pope Pius IX fled to Gaita.
– 1859 – Charles Darwin’s “Origin of Species” went on sale.
– 1874 – American Joseph Gladys received a patent for barbed wire.
– 1896 – The Governor-General of Turkestan issued an order to conduct a census in the country.
– 1905 – The Sevastopol uprising led by Lieutenant P. P. Schmidt began.
– 1918 – Serbia and Montenegro united into one state.
– 1921 – A special embassy delegation headed by the Kazakh Grand Duke Bobookhun Salimov was sent to Afghanistan.
– 1927 – The Moscow State Operetta Theater was opened.
– 1937 – Orientalists were shot in Leningrad.
– 1944 – The Soviet offensive in the Baltics ended.
– 1961 – The UN adopted a declaration on the non-proliferation of atomic weapons.
– 1965 – Joseph Desire Mobutu, who had ruled the Democratic Republic of the Congo for 32 years, came to power.
– 1966 – A Bulgarian passenger plane with 82 people on board crashed in Bratislava.
– 1969 – The United States and the USSR signed an agreement on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
– 2000 – An international conference on “Kamoliddin Behzod and the Art of Oriental Miniature” was held in the conference hall of the State Museum of the History of the Timurids.
– 2002 – Jan Nepomnyashi from Bryansk became the world youth chess champion.
– 2012 – 112 people died in a fire at a garment factory in Bangladesh.
– 2015 – A Russian Air Force Su-24 aircraft was shot down by the Turkish army on the Turkish-Syrian border.
– 2017 – Al-Qaeda terrorists attacked a mosque in the Egyptian city of El-Arish. 305 people were killed and more than 100 were injured in the attack.
