November 24: Feast day of Vietnamese Martyrs (Roman Catholicism)
Ruby about to shoot Oswald
- 1227 – High Duke of Poland Leszek the White was assassinated during a diet of the Piast dukes.
- 1877 – Anna Sewell's influential animal welfare novel Black Beauty, one of the best-selling books of all time, was first published.
- 1922 – Irish Civil War: Author and Irish nationalist Robert Erskine Childers was executed by the Irish Free State for illegally carrying a semi-automatic pistol.
- 1963 – Businessman Jack Ruby shot (pictured) and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, during a live television broadcast, fueling conspiracy theories on the matter.
- 2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, killed at least 117 people.
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