About the day » Wednesday November 24, 1971Calender converter

• Pieter Anton A Gerrits, Nijmegen († 1974)
• Jefferry Alan Howell († 1978)
• N.n. Hoefnagel, Noordoostpolder († 1971)
• Wiebe Martinus van der Laan, Eenrum
• Karin Bussen, Dordrecht

• Clyde A. Whitney (83), Rocky River, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States
• Derkje Sappema (79), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Cyriel Jozef Daelman (72), Sint-Niklaas, België
• Cornelia van Harn (78), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Elisa Maria Vergaerde (76), Oostende
• Bastiaan van Rijn (86), Katwijk
• Cornelia Otterspeer (59), Schiedam
• Cornelis WOUD (60), Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bauke Westerdijk (66), -
• Cato Sloof (72), Utrecht, Utrecht, nederland

• 1969 » David Adeang, Nauruan lawyer and politician
• 1969 » Rob Nicholson, American bass player and songwriter
• 1969 » Romesh Kaluwitharana, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1970 » Ashley Ward, English footballer and businessman
• 1970 » Doug Brien, American football player
• 1970 » Julieta Venegas, American-Mexican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1971 » Cosmas Ndeti, Kenyan runner
• 1971 » Keith Primeau, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
• 1972 » Marek Lemsalu, Estonian footballer
• 1972 » Ruxandra Dragomir, Romanian tennis player

• 1960 » Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Ruth Chatterton, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1963 » Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
• 1965 » Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1895)
• 1968 » D. A. Levy, American poet and publisher (b. 1942)
• 1973 » John Neihardt, American author and poet (b. 1881)
• 1980 » George Raft, American actor and dancer (b. 1901)
• 1980 » Henrietta Hill Swope, American astronomer and academic (b. 1902)
• 1980 » Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (b. 1897)
• 1980 » Molly Reilly, Canadian aviator (b. 1922)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Marco
5. Peter
6. Marcel
7. Jeroen
8. Mark
9. Richard
10. Patrick
11. Michael
12. Edwin
13. Pieter
14. Cornelis
15. David
16. Johan

1. Sandra
2. Maria
3. Johanna
4. Monique
5. Esther
6. Anna
7. Saskia
8. Jolanda
9. Karin
10. Ingrid
11. Petra
12. Miranda
13. Yvonne
14. Astrid
15. Linda
16. Cornelia

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.1 million citizens.
• January 31 » The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.
• March 1 » President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
• September 20 » Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
• October 28 » Prospero becomes the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket.
• November 12 » Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
• November 15 » Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.

The temperature on November 24, 1971 was between -3.0 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.