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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_24" title="November 24">November 24</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1221" title="1221">1221</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_the_Khwarazmian_Empire" title="Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire">Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan" title="Genghis Khan">Genghis Khan</a> defeated the renegade <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khwarazmian_Empire" title="Khwarazmian Empire">Khwarazmian</a> prince <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalal_al-Din_Mangburni" title="Jalal al-Din Mangburni">Jalal al-Din</a> at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Indus" title="Battle of the Indus">Battle of the Indus</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922" title="1922">1922</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Civil_War" title="Irish Civil War">Irish Civil War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_nationalism" title="Irish nationalism">Irish nationalist</a> author <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erskine_Childers_(author)" title="Erskine Childers (author)">Erskine Childers</a></b> was executed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Free_State" title="Irish Free State">Irish Free State</a> for illegally carrying a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automatic_firearm" title="Semi-automatic firearm">semi-automatic</a> pistol.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925" title="1925">1925</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill_Theatre" title="Eugene O'Neill Theatre">Eugene O'Neill Theatre</a></b> opened on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_(Manhattan)" title="Broadway (Manhattan)">Broadway</a>, New York, with a production of the musical <i>Mayflowers</i>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941" title="1941">1941</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">The Holocaust</a>: The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresienstadt_Ghetto" title="Theresienstadt Ghetto">Theresienstadt Ghetto</a></b> was founded as a waystation to Nazi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp" title="Extermination camp">extermination camps</a> and a "retirement settlement" for elderly and prominent Jews to mislead their communities about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution" title="Final Solution">Final Solution</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974" title="1974">1974</a> – A group of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoanthropology" title="Paleoanthropology">paleoanthropologists</a> led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Johanson" title="Donald Johanson">Donald Johanson</a> discovered a 3.2-million-year-old after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">Beatles</a> song "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds" title="Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds">Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds</a>".</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magn%C3%BAs_%C3%93l%C3%A1fsson" title="Magnús Óláfsson">Magnús Óláfsson</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1265); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Ragsdale" title="William P. Ragsdale">William P. Ragsdale</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1877); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Robertson" title="Oscar Robertson">Oscar Robertson</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1938); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvie_Kinigi" title="Sylvie Kinigi">Sylvie Kinigi</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1953)</p>