1. On November 24, 1864, during the American Civil War, Confederate General John Bell Hood ordered a frontal assault on Union troops entrenched at the Battle of Griswoldville, near Macon, Georgia. The attack was a disaster, with the Confederates suffering over 1,000 casualties compared to only 70 for the Union forces.

2. In 1942, a fire broke out at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts, killing 492 people. Among the victims was Georgia Tech football coach Bill Alexander, who had been in town for the Army-Navy football game and decided to visit the nightclub.

3. On November 24, 1963, just two days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and killed by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby. Ruby, born Jacob Rubenstein in Chicago, had lived in Dallas for many years and had ties to organized crime.

4. In 1971, a Boeing 727 hijacked by a man known as "D.B. Cooper" landed in Seattle, Washington, after the hijacker received a ransom of $200,000. Cooper then parachuted out of the plane and was never seen again. Although the identity of Cooper remains unknown, some investigators believe he may have been a former Army paratrooper from Georgia.

5. On November 24, 2017, the Georgia Bulldogs football team defeated the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 45-21 in the annual "Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate" rivalry game. The victory helped secure Georgia's place in the College Football Playoff, where they would ultimately lose to the Alabama Crimson Tide in the National Championship.