International historical events that happened today

There are many interesting events that take place across the globe every day.

Here are a few that happened today (November 24) back in history:

1248 – The city of Seville, Spain, surrendered to Ferdinand III of Castile after a two-year siege.

1863 – Union forces won the Battle of Orchard Knob, Tennessee.

1863 – The Battle of Chattanooga, one of the most decisive battles of the American Civil War, began (also in Tennessee).

1903 – Italian tenor Enrico Caruso made his US debut in a Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi’s Rigoletto.

1909 – The Wright brothers formed a million-dollar corporation for the commercial manufacture of their airplanes.

1921 – President Warren Harding signed the Willis Campell Act, better known as the Anti-Beer Bill. It forbade doctors to prescribe beer or liquor for medicinal purposes.

1942 – The film Casablanca premiered in New York City.

1968 – Four men hijacked an American plane, with 87 passengers, from Miami to Cuba.

1980 – In Europe’s biggest earthquake since 1915, 3000 people were killed in Italy.

1990 – The first all-women expedition to the South Pole set off from Antarctica as part of a 70-day trip. The group included 12 Russians, 3 Americans and 1 Japanese woman.

1992 – The first Smartphone, IBM Simon, was introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.

2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected as president of Liberia. She was the first woman to lead an African nation.

2006 – In the second-deadliest day of sectarian violence in Iraq since the beginning of the 2003 war, 215 people were killed and nearly 260 injured by bombs in Sadr City.

2011 – Yemeni President Ali Abullah Saleh signed a deal to transfer power to the vice president in exchange for legal immunity; the agreement came after 11 months of protests.

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