November 24<\/p>\n
1221 \u2013 The forces of Genghis Khan defeats those of Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu, Shah of the Khwarazm Empire at the Battle of the Indus, completing the Mongol conquest of Central Asia.<\/p>\n
1642 \u2013 Dutch explorer Abel Tasman discovers an island he calls Van Diemen’s Land n honor of the Governor of the Dutch East Indies,\u00a0which is later renamed Tasmania.<\/p>\n
1832 \u2013 The South Carolina legislature passes the Ordinance of Nullification,<\/em> declaring that the Federal import tax Tariffs of 1828<\/em> and 1832<\/em> that helped New England states but less Southern states, null and void in the state, beginning a political crisis between the state and the federal government that would not be resolved until March of the next year.<\/p>\n 1835 \u2013 The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers<\/p>\n 1859 \u2013 Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.<\/em><\/p>\n 1877 \u2013 Anna Sewell’s novel Black Beauty<\/em> is published.<\/p>\n 1917 \u2013 In Milwaukee, 9 members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed when a bomb – suspected to have been planted by the Galleanist\u00a0 faction of anarchists – is found at a church and explodes after being taken to the police office, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 Off Tarawa Atoll, the escort carrier USS Liscome Bay<\/em> is torpedoed by the IJN submarine I-175 and sinks, killing 650 service men, among them PO3 Doris ‘Dorie’ Miller, who was awarded the Navy Cross for actions during the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor and which Ford Class carrier CVN-81 will be named after.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first B-29 bombing attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.<\/p>\n 1963 \u2013 On live TV, Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon.<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 During an airline hijacking, a man calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013 After a week of mass protests against the Communist regime known as the Velvet Revolution, Milo\u0161 Jake\u0161 and the entire Politburo of the Czechoslovak Communist Party resign from office, bringing an end to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia People’s Army\u00a0 – FARC<\/em> – sign a revised peace deal, ending the country’s more than 50 year long civil war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 24 1221 \u2013 The forces of Genghis Khan defeats those of Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu, Shah of the Khwarazm Empire at the Battle of the Indus, completing the Mongol conquest of Central Asia. 1642 \u2013 Dutch explorer Abel Tasman discovers an island he calls Van Diemen’s Land n honor of the Governor of the Dutch … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62079"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97984,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62079\/revisions\/97984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}