November 24 is the 328th day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar (329th leap year). There are 37 days left until the end of the year.
1907 - The Municipal Vinohrady Theater opens with the performance of a play by Jaroslav Vrchlický Godiv.
1915 - The Ministry of the Interior of Austria-Hungary dissolves the Czech Sokol Community for "cultivating intensive contacts with foreign countries."
1966 - Ilyushin Il-18 crashes on the line from Sofia to Prague, killing all 82 people on board. It was the biggest plane crash in Czechoslovakia.
1978 - The Křivoklátsko Protected Landscape Area was declared.
1989 - At the all-day extraordinary meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, the resignation of all members and candidates of the presidency was accepted and the general secretary of the party was elected politician Karel Urbánek instead of Milouš Jakeš.
Years dispute over former Czechoslovak property ends: Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic and Slovakia Miloš Zeman and Mikuláš Dzurinda sign an agreement leading to a final settlement between the two countries
Based on the decision of the Ústí nad Labem council, the fence in Matiční Street was dismantled, which they built to separate noisy and maladapted fellow citizens (gypsies) from a quiet neighborhood.
1642 - Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover Tasmania. The country named Van Diemen the country.
1832 - South Carolina passes a law allowing it to repeal or ignore federal law that they consider unconstitutional.
1859 - Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species.
1947 - Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France.
1965 - Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a bloody coup.
1799 - Andreas Ludwig Jeitteles, physician and educator († June 17, 1878)
1828 - Giovanni Kminek-Szedlo, Italian Egyptologist of Czech origin († November 24, 1896)
1837 - Alfred Waldau, translator into German († February 3, 1882)
1839 - František Ladislav Chleborád, Czech economist, pioneer of cooperatives († July 20, 1911)
1878 - František Ostrý, Czechoslovak politician (†?)
Zdeněk Matěj Kuděj, Czech journalist, traveler, translator and writer († 8 August 1955)
Vladimír Červenka, Czechoslovak politician († December 16, 1960)
Josef Janeba, master violinist († October 15, 1954)
1884 - Miloš Čeleda, Czech composer († June 12, 1958)
1887 - Václav Münzberger, Czech cameraman († June 18, 1956)
1902 - Miroslav Burian, museum worker and writer († August 23, 1980)
1904 - Jiří Sever, photographer and chemist († May 10, 1968)
1908 - Frantisek Tvrz, photographer (†?)
Hugo Rokyta, cultural historian, ethnographer, herald and conservationist († 16 March 1999)
Jan Bartejs, soldier and commander of the Potash airborne force († March 13, 1963)
1921 - Lída Plachá, actress († October 14, 1993)
1924 - Rudolf Svoboda, sculptor, restorer, medalist and pedagogue († October 11, 1994)
1926 - Vilém Stonawski, Bishop of the Lutheran Churches in the Czech Republic († May 4, 2009)
1930 - Jaroslav Šíp, Czechoslovak basketball player († November 6, 2014)
1931 - Zdeněk Mareš, novelist
1933 - Jan Jílek, Czech playwright, writer, screenwriter and actor († October 6, 2011)
1934 - Václav Pantůček, Czechoslovak hockey representative († July 21, 1994)
1939 - Pavel Rak, Czech illustrator and cartoonist
1941 - Alfred Strejček, Czech actor
1942 - Tomáš Jungwirth, athlete († January 19, 1998)
Lešek Semelka, Czech singer, composer and keyboard player
Josef Augusta, Czech hockey player and coach († 16 February 2017)
1947 - Jan Bartoš, Czech sculptor and restorer
1948 - Jiří Ptáčník, actor, television and radio presenter
1949 - Petra Černocká, Czech actress, singer and model
Václav Krása, Member of Parliament and Chairman of the National