Today
Tuesday November 24 2026
- Day of the year
- 328/ 365
- Week
- 482,026
- Days left
- 3790%
- Moon
- 100%Full moon
Today is Tuesday, November 24, 2026. It is day 328 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 37 remain, and 90% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 48.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- November 25International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
- December 1World AIDS Day
- December 2International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Saint Chrysogonusmartyr and saint, bishop of Aquileia before 302/304
- Andrew Dung-LacVietnamese Catholic martyr (1795–1839)
- EanflædKentish princess
- Albert of LouvainRoman Catholic cardinal
- Vietnamese MartyrsRoman Catholic Saints
Sources : Wikidata (P841) · CC0 1.0
Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 06:53
- Sunset
- 16:32
- Length of day
- 9h 39m−2 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 11:43
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Autumn
began on September 22, 2026
Next season
Winter — 27 days, December 21, 2026 (December solstice)
Public holidays — United States
Not a public holiday in the United States.
Next public holiday : Thanksgiving Day — November 26, 2026
National holidays only. Regions, provinces and Länder add their own.
Moon
Full moon
Illumination : 100%
Moon age : 15.4 days
- Next full moon
- December 24, 2026
- Next new moon
- December 9, 2026
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Sagittarius
until December 22, 2026 — Capricorn
Zodiac dates are an astrological convention, not the Sun's actual position among the constellations. The astronomy above is measured; this is not.
On this day in history
1190
Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem. Wikipedia
1642
Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania). Wikipedia
1859
British naturalist Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is published. Wikipedia
1863
American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg. Wikipedia
1963
Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby on live television. Robert H. Jackson takes a photograph of the shooting that will win the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Photography. Wikipedia
1965
Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997. Wikipedia
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1969
Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to land on the Moon. Wikipedia
1974
Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression. Wikipedia
1989
After a week of mass protests against the Communist regime known as the Velvet Revolution, Miloš Jakeš and the entire Politburo of the Czechoslovak Communist Party resign from office. This brings an effective end to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Wikipedia
2022
Five days after the general elections which resulted in a hung parliament, opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim is officially named as the 10th prime minister of Malaysia. Wikipedia
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
Births and deaths
Born on this day November 24
- 1394Charles I, Duke of Orléans (died 1465)
- 1632Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and scholar (died 1677)
- 1713Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and clergyman (died 1768)
- 1784Zachary Taylor, American general and politician, 12th President of the United States (died 1850)
- 1826Carlo Collodi, Italian journalist and author (died 1890)
- 1864Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator (died 1901)
- 1913Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (died 2005)
- 1934Alfred Schnittke, German-Russian journalist and composer (died 1998)
Died on this day November 24
- 1572John Knox, Scottish pastor and theologian (born 1510)aged 58 years
- 1870Comte de Lautréamont, Uruguayan-French poet and author (born 1846)aged 24 years
- 1929Georges Clemenceau, French physician, publisher, and politician, 72nd Prime Minister of France (born 1841)aged 88 years
- 1957Diego Rivera, Mexican painter and sculptor (born 1886)aged 71 years
- 1963Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (born 1939)aged 24 years
- 1991Freddie Mercury, Tanzanian-English singer-songwriter, lead vocalist of Queen, and producer (born 1946)aged 45 years
- 1991Eric Carr, American drummer of Kiss (born 1950)aged 41 years
- 2002John Rawls, American philosopher, author, and academic (born 1921)aged 81 years
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
The day in words
In New York the sun rises at 06:53 and sets at 16:32, giving 9h 39m of daylight — 2 minutes less than yesterday. It has been autumn since September 22, 2026; winter opens in 27 days, on December 21, 2026 (December solstice).
The moon is full, 100% illuminated. The next full moon falls on December 24, 2026 and the next new moon on December 9, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches November 24 to Saint Chrysogonus, Andrew Dung-Lac and Eanflæd.
No United Nations international day falls on November 24. The next one on the calendar is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, on November 25.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem (1190); Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania) (1642). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Charles I was born on November 24, 1394; John Knox died on November 24, 1572.
31 days remain until Christmas and 38 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — November 24 falls under the sign of Sagittarius.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 90%
- of the year elapsed
- 31
- until Christmas
- 38
- until New Year
- 462
- until the next 29 February
2026 — Common year (365 days)
Work with dates
Sources
Every block on this page names where its data comes from. Nothing here is generated when the source is silent.
- United Nations — International Days— What's celebrated today
- Wikidata (P841)— Saints and name days · CC0 1.0
- Wikipedia (en)— On this day in history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26