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(28.11.2015)

http://www.roh.org.uk/events/calendar/2015/11/24

http://www.londontown.com/London/November-in-London (Tintin: Herge's Masterpiece Revealed: the art and life of the Belgium artist behind the be-quiffed cartoon hero.

Tintin: Herge's Masterpiece Somerset House, Strand London, WC2R 1LA Exhibitions Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA Tube: Temple Station Dates: 12th November 2015 to 31st January 2016)

[Royal Opera House: Morgen und Abend - Graham Vick, artistic director of Birmingham Opera Company, directs the world premiere of Morgen und Abend, Georg Friedrich Haas's new opera - the first commission for the Austrian composer from The Royal Opera.]

November 24

380 – Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.
1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1877 – Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
1941 – World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces.
1943 – World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
1944 – World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.
1963 – In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters.
1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon.
1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.
1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.
2013 – Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.
2015 – A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria–Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.

1273 – Alphonso, Earl of Chester (d. 1284)
1394 – Charles, Duke of Orléans (d. 1465)
1420 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English knight (d. 1473)
1583 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet and painter (d. 1641)
1594 – Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1651)
1615 – Philip William, Elector Palatine, Bavarian son of Magdalene of Bavaria (d. 1690)
1630 – Étienne Baluze, French scholar and academic (d. 1718)
1690 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, organist and composer born in the Duchy of Württemberg (d. 1750)
1712 – Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French priest and educator (d. 1789)
1712 – Ali II ibn Hussein, Tunisian ruler (d. 1782)
1713 – Junípero Serra, Spanish priest and missionary (d. 1784)
1811 – Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (d. 1890)
1812 – Xavier Hommaire de Hell, French geographer and engineer (d. 1848)
1826 – Carlo Collodi, journalist and author born in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany (d. 1890)
1867 – Louis de Champsavin, French horse rider (d. 1916)
1897 – Lucky Luciano, Italian-American mobster (d. 1962)
1899 – Ward Morehouse, American author, playwright, and critic (d. 1966)
1916 – Forrest J Ackerman, American soldier and author (d. 2008)
1925 – Simon van der Meer, Dutch-Swiss physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
1930 – Bob Friend, American baseball player and politician
1935 – Ron Dellums, American soldier and politician, 48th Mayor of Oakland
1938 – Charles Starkweather, American spree killer (d. 1959)
1938 – Willy Claes, Belgian conductor and politician, 8th Secretary General of NATO
1941 – Pete Best, English drummer and songwriter (The Beatles and Lee Curtis and the All-Stars)
1941 – Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Mar-Keys, and The Blues Brothers) (d. 2012)
1942 – Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian, actor, and singer (The Humblebums)
1942 – Andrew Stunell, English politician
1943 – Robin Williamson, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Incredible String Band)
1946 – Penny Jordan, English author (d. 2011)
1946 – Tony Clarkin, English guitarist/songwriter (Magnum)
1948 – Spider Robinson, American-Canadian author and critic
1949 – Ewen Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington, English politician
1949 – Sally Davies, English hematologist and academic
1951 – Mimis Androulakis, Greek author and politician
1951 – Graham Price, Egyptian-Welsh rugby player
1952 – Thierry Lhermitte, French actor, producer, and screenwriter
1954 – Margaret Wetherell, British social psychologist
1962 – Ioannis Topalidis, Greek footballer and manager
1966 – Russell Watson, English tenor and actor
1974 – Stephen Merchant, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1980 – Beth Phoenix, American wrestler
1982 – Damla Günay, Turkish archer
1983 – Dean Ashton, English footballer
1984 – Wolf Hudson, American porn actor and director
1986 – Pedro León, Spanish footballer
1990 – Tom Odell, English singer-songwriter
1993 – Ivi Adamou, Cypriot-Greek singer-songwriter
2003 – Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman, New Zealand meningococcal disease survivor

654 – Emperor Kōtoku of Japan (b. 596)
835 – Muhammad al-Jawad, Muslim religious leader born in Medina, 9th of the Twelve Imams (b. 811)
1265 – Magnus Olafsson, Manx king
1326 – Hugh Despenser the Younger, English courtier (b. 1296)
1468 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402)
1531 – Johannes Oecolampadius, theologian and reformer from the Electoral Palatinate (b. 1482)
1583 – René de Birague, French cardinal (b. 1506)
1675 – Guru Tegh Bahadur, 9th Guru of Sikhs from Amritsar (b. 1621)
1770 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian and author (b. 1685)
1775 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1703)
1801 – Franz Moritz von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)
1848 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779)
1916 – Hiram Maxim, American-English inventor, invented the Maxim gun (b. 1840)
1920 – Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian author and poet (b. 1854)
1929 – Georges Clemenceau, French physician, publisher, and politician, 72nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1841)
1936 – Lucio Godina, Filipino conjoined twin (b. 1908)
1957 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter and sculptor (b. 1886)
1958 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
1959 – Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player, cricketer, and sailor (b. 1883)
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
1982 – Barack Obama, Sr., Kenyan economist and academic (b. 1936)
1990 – Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer (b. 1910)
1990 – Bülent Arel, Turkish-born composer of contemporary classical music and electronic music (b. 1919)
1991 – Eric Carr, American drummer and songwriter (KISS) (b. 1950)
1991 – Freddie Mercury, Zanzibari-English singer-songwriter and producer (Queen and Ibex) (b. 1946)
1993 – Albert Collins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932)
2003 – Snowflake, Spanish gorilla (b. 1964)
2013 – Jean King, American politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii (b. 1925)
2013 – Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown, English banker and politician, Governor of the Bank of England (b. 1927)

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Earliest day on which Mother's Day can fall, while November 30 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in November. (Russia)
San Crisogono
Colmán of Cloyne
Firmina (Roman Catholic Church)
Flavian of Ricina (Roman Catholic Church

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