It happened on this day, November 24
Events:
1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island of Van Diemen's Land (later called Tasmania).
1953 – Publication of UN Security Council Resolution No. 101, in which it condemns Israel for the massacre committed in the village of Qibya, near Bethlehem.
1961 – Raising of the new Kuwaiti flag.
1963 – Assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald, accused of the murder of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
1965 – Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah takes power in Kuwait, succeeding his brother Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah.
🌟 Mobutu Seseko takes power in Congo and changes its name to Zaire.
1989 – Elias Hrawi is elected president of the Lebanese Republic, two days after the assassination of President René Moawad.
🌟 Abdullah Azzam was assassinated after his car carrying him to perform Friday prayers was bombed in Pakistan.
1993 – Imad Aqel, one of the main leaders of the Hamas movement, is assassinated with seventy bullets.
1998 – Lebanese army commander General Emile Lahoud takes power in Lebanon as President of the Republic, succeeding President Elias Hrawi.
🌟 Palestinian National Authority President Yasser Arafat inaugurates Gaza International Airport and first passenger plane arrives from Egypt.
2007 – The outgoing President of the Lebanese Republic, Emile Lahoud, leaves the Baabda Palace with an official farewell ceremony in the first minutes of the day.
🌟 The general election in Australia led to the defeat of Prime Minister John Howard and the victory of his competitor, Kevin Rudd.
2013 – Signing of a temporary agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group relating to the Iranian nuclear program.
💥 After tensions in Egyptian-Turkish relations escalate, Egypt expels the Turkish ambassador to Cairo, and Turkey responds by expelling the Egyptian ambassador to Ankara.
🌟 The number of deaths in Saudi Arabia due to the Corona virus rose to 55 deaths out of 130 infections.
2015 – Turkey shot down a Russian Sukhoi 24 plane participating in the war in Syria, saying it violated Turkish airspace.
🌟 5 killed and 14 injured, including advisers, in a suicide attack against a hotel for judges in the town of Al-Arish in Sinai, claimed by the Islamic State.
🌟 A terrorist attack targeting Tunisian presidential security forces left more than 12 dead in the heart of Tunis.
2017 – 305 people were killed and 128 others injured in a terrorist attack on Al-Rawda Mosque in Bir al-Abd, North Sinai.
2019 – Al Hilal Saudi Arabia won the 2019 AFC Champions League Cup after defeating Japanese team Urawa with a score of 3-0 in both first legs.
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Births:
1712 – Ali Bey II, fourth Bey of Tunis.
1784 – Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States.
1876 - Hideo Noguchi, Japanese microbiologist.
1884 – Yitzhak Ben Zvi, second president of Israel.
1888 – Dale Carnegie, American writer.
** Fritz Klein – a Nazi doctor who committed crimes against humanity against concentration camp inmates during World War II.
1913 – Abu Al-Hasan Al-Nadawi, Indian thinker.
1933 – Rashwan Tawfiq, Egyptian actor.
1935 – Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Prime Minister of Bahrain.
1940 – Shaaban Hussein, Egyptian actor.
1946 – Mervat Amin, Egyptian actress.
1955 – Najib Mikati, Prime Minister of Lebanon.
1961 – Arundhati Roy, Indian writer.
1973 – Suzan Najm Al-Din, Syrian actress.
1978 – Angie Sharaf, Egyptian actress.
1983 – Dean Ashton, English footballer.
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Death:
654 – Emperor Kotoko, 36th emperor of Japan.
1870 – Lautrémont, French poet
1992 – Theodore Edison, American inventor, is the third son of inventor Thomas Edison.
1904 – Al-Fadil Sharabiani, Iranian Muslim scholar and teacher.
1929 – Georges Clemenceau, French Prime Minister.
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, charged with the murder of President John F. Kennedy.
1965 – Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, Emir of the State of Kuwait.
1980 – Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hosary, Egyptian reciter of the Quran.
1989 – Abdullah Azzam, one of the Afghan leaders during the Soviet invasion.
1993 – Imad Akl, leader of the Hamas movement.
2001 – Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, leader of the Hamas movement.
2002 – John Rawls, American philosopher.
2003 – Louay al-Atassi, president of Syria.
2014 – Issam Abbaji, Syrian actor.
2015 – Oleg Peshkov, Russian military pilot, receives the Order of the Hero of the Russian Federation.
2017 – Ibrahim Khafaji, contemporary Saudi lyric poet One of his works is the Saudi national anthem.
2018 – Shaker Khasbak, Iraqi geographer, short story writer and playwright.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪Evolution Day.
⏪ Teachers' Day in Türkiye.
