What Happened on Nov 24

Battle of Tuttlingen

The Battle of Tuttlingen was fought in Tuttlingen on November 24, 1643. Those involved in the conflict were the French forces led by Marshal Josias... Read more

Great Storm of 1703

The Great Storm of 1703 was the most severe storm or natural disaster ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain. It affected southern... Read more

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is Published

On the Origin of Species proved unexpectedly popular, with the entire stock of 1,250 copies oversubscribed when it went on sale to booksellers on... Read more

Battle of Lookout Mountain - Marks Start of Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign

Description: From the last days of September through October 1863, Gen. Braxton Bragg’s army laid siege to the Union army under Maj. Gen. William... Read more

Battle of Columbia

Description:Conflict near Columbia, during Hood’s 1864 Tennessee invasion, constituted a Confederate diversion as part of a maneuver designed to... Read more

Theo Van Doesburg Marries Petronella Johanna van Moorsel

In 1920 Nelly met Van Doesburg through her brother, who had a subscription to the magazine published by Van Doesburg De Stijl. At the opening of... Read more

Chicago Elevated Train Wreck

Twenty persons were killed and more than 60 injured here late this afternoon when a North Shore elevated electric train crashed into a wooden... Read more

Japanese Forces Capture Nanning

The occupation of Nanning cut a Chinese line of supply along the highways from French Indo-China into Kwansi Province. The railway from Indo-China... Read more

Luftwaffe Commences Heavy Bombing of Bristol

Hitler's propaganda claimed that Bristol had been completely destroyed in a night raid on November 2, 1940 in which 5,000 incendiary and 10,000... Read more

"Bicycle Thieves" Is Released

Bicycle Thieves (Italian: Ladri di biciclette, also known as The Bicycle Thief) is a 1948 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It... Read more

"Giant" Is Released

Giant is a 1956 drama film directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from the novel by Edna Ferber. The... Read more

'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' is Published

In 1957, at the age of 53, Seuss published The Grinch, and thousands of children first discovered the story of the Whos -- an endlessly cheerful... Read more

Edward R. Murrow Presents The Documentary 'Harvest of Shame'

Harvest of Shame was a 1960 television documentary presented by broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow on CBS that showed the plight of American... Read more

"Faces" Is Released

Faces was a 1968 movie, directed by John Cassavetes and starring John Marley, Cassavetes' wife Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel and Lynn Carlin, who... Read more

D. B. Cooper Hijacks a Passenger Jet and Disappears

D. B. Cooper is a media epithet popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the airspace between Portland,... Read more

MST3K Ep. K01 - "Invaders from the Deep"

This is the first episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 ever aired. No fan copy is known to exist. Movie Summary: Movie version of Gerry &... Read more

MST3K Ep. K02 - "Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars"

Aired as part of a double-feature on the same Thanksgiving evening as MST3K Ep. K01. No fan copy is known to exist. Movie Summary: Movie... Read more

Mystery Science Theater 3000

Mystery Science Theater 3000, often shortened to MST3K, is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best... Read more

MST3K Ep. 208 - "Lost Continent"

An American military/science team searches for a downed rocket in a dinosaur-infested jungle at the top of a remote mountain. Stars Cesar Romero as... Read more

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Genesis Released in North America

Sonic the Hedgehog 2, or simply Sonic 2, is a platform game developed by American studio Sega Technical Institute in collaboration with Sonic Team,... Read more

Mrs. Doubtfire released

Mrs. Doubtfire is a 1993 American comedy film based on the novel Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine. It was directed by Chris Columbus and distributed... Read more

MST3K Ep. 604 - "Zombie Nightmare"

A hit and run victim is brought back from the dead by a voodoo doctor, and then seeks revenge. Stars Adam West (Batman) as police captain... Read more

South Park Episode 314 - "The Red Badge of Gayness"

South Park's Civil War reenactment, sponsored by "Jagerminz S'More Flavored Schnapps," gets out of hand. Cartman persuades the drunken lot to... Read more

Toy Story 2 released

Toy Story 2 is a 1999 CGI film, the third Disney/Pixar feature film, and the sequel to Toy Story, which features the adventures of a group of toys... Read more

Maria Serrano Serrano Dies

Passion Fruit was a Eurodance/bubblegum dance group consisting of three girls of Dutch, Spanish and German descent: * Maria Serrano Serrano... Read more