WHAT HAPPENED ON 24. NOVEMBER
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Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople. (24. November 380)

Polish Prince Leszek I the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa. (24. November 1227)

In the middle of the night a mass on the north side of Mont Granier suddenly collapsed, in one of the largest historical rockslope failures known in Europe. (24. November 1248)

Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité. (24. November 1429)

Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway. (24. November 1542)

Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania). (24. November 1642)

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). (24. November 1835)

Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein. (24. November 1850)

Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, the anniversary of which is sometimes called "Evolution Day" (24. November 1859)

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. (24. November 1863)

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. (24. November 1906)

In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 9 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. (24. November 1917)

Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Robert Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver. (24. November 1922)

In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens. (24. November 1932)

The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress. (24. November 1935)

World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers. (24. November 1940)

World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces. (24. November 1941)

World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men. (24. November 1943)

World War II: Bombing of Tokyo – The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft. (24. November 1944)

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. (24. November 1950)