November 23
is the 327th day of the year (328th in
leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining.
*
1499 - Pretender to the throne
Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the
Tower of London. He had invaded
England in
1497, claiming to be the lost son of King
Edward IV of England.
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1644 -
Areopagitica by
John Milton is published.
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1863 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Chattanooga begins -
Union forces led by General
Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at
Chattanooga, Tennessee and counter-attack
Confederate troops.
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1867 - The
Manchester Martyrs were hanged in
Manchester,
England for rescueing two Irish men from jail.
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1869 - In
Dumbarton,
Scotland, the
clipper Cutty Sark is launched - one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day.
*
1876 - Corrupt
Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as
Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in
New York City after being captured in
Spain.
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1890 - King
William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter
Princess Wilhelmina to become Queen.
*
1903 -
Colorado Governor
James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of
Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.
*
1934 - An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the
Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at
Walwal, which lay well within
Ethiopian territory. This leads to the
Abyssinia Crisis.
*
1936 - The first edition of
Life is published.
*
1943 - The
Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the
Berlin neighborhood of
Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in
1961 and be called the
Deutsche Oper Berlin.
*
1954 - For the first time, the
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the peak it reached just before the
1929 crash.
*
1955 - The
Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the
United Kingdom to
Australia.
*
1959 - General
Charles de Gaulle,
President of France, declares in a speech in
Strasbourg his vision for a "
Europe, from the
Atlantic to the
Urals."
*
1963 - The first episode of the long-running
science fiction television series
Doctor Who,
An Unearthly Child, airs on the
BBC.
*
1971 - The representatives of the
People's Republic of China first attended the
United Nations, including the
United Nations Security Council, as
China's representatives (See
China and the United Nations)
*
1979 - In
Dublin,
Ireland,
Irish Republican Army member
Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of
Lord Mountbatten.
*
1980 - A series of
earthquakes in southern
Italy kills approximately 4,800 people.
*
1981 -
Iran-Contra scandal:
Ronald Reagan signs the
top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the
Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support
Contra rebels in
Nicaragua.
*
1984 -
Boston College quarterback
Doug Flutie throws a game-winning 48-yard
Hail Mary pass to Gerard Phelan to defeat the
University of Miami Hurricanes 45-41. It is one of the most famous plays in American college
football history.
*
1985 - Gunmen hijack
EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from
Athens to
Cairo. When the plane lands in
Malta,
Egyptian commandos storm the
hijacked jetliner, but 60 people die in the raid.
*
1990 - The first all woman expedition to the
south pole (3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians), sets off from
Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek.
*
1993 -
Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000
Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000
K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.
*
1996 -
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the
Indian Ocean off the coast of
Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 123.
*1996 - The
Republic of Angola officially joins the
World Trade Organization.
*
2003 -
Georgian president
Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
*
912 -
Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (d.
973)
*
1221 - King
Alfonso X of Castile (d.
1284)
*
1402 -
Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d.
1468)
*
1417 -
William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d.
1487)
*
1553 -
Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d.
1617)
*
1616 -
John Wallis, English mathematician (d.
1703)
*
1632 -
Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (d.
1707)
*
1641 -
Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d.
1720)
*
1705 -
Thomas Birch, English historian (d.
1766)
*
1715 -
Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d.
1799)
*
1719 -
Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d.
1777)
*
1749 -
Edward Rutledge, U.S. statesman (d.
1800)
*
1760 -
François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary (d.
1797)
*
1804 -
Franklin Pierce, 14th
President of the United States (d.
1869)
*
1820 -
Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d.
1884)
*
1837 -
Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1923)
*
1860 -
Billy the Kid, American bandit (d.
1881)
* 1860 -
Hjalmar Branting,
Prime Minister of Sweden, and
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1925)
*
1861 -
Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d.
1939)
*
1864 -
Henry Bourne Joy, American
automobile executive (d.
1936)
*
1869 -
Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d.
1942)
*
1875 -
Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (d.
1933)
*
1876 -
Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d.
1946)
*
1887 -
Eduardo Corrochio, Spanish-born dancer (d.
1943)
* 1887 -
Boris Karloff, British actor (d.
1969)
*
1888 -
Harpo Marx, American comedian (d.
1964)
*
1890 -
El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d.
1941)
*
1892 -
Erté, French artist (d.
1990)
*
1897 -
Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (d.
1999)
*1897 -
Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (d.
1948)
*
1902 -
Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d.
1982)
*
1907 -
Lars Leksell, Swedish physician (d.
1986)
*
1909 -
Nigel Tranter, British historian and writer (d.
2000)
*
1920 -
Paul Celan, Romanian-born German poet (d.
1970)
*
1921 -
Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d.
1960)
*
1922 -
Manuel Fraga Iribarne, president of Spanish Galicia
*
1923 -
R.L. Burnside, American musician (d.
2005)
* 1923 -
Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (d.
1986)
*
1924 -
Colin Macmillan Turnbull, British-born anthropologist (d.
1994)
*
1925 -
Johnny Mandel, American songwriter
* 1925 -
José Napoleón Duarte,
President of El Salvador (d.
1990)
*
1926 -
Sathya Sai Baba, Indian "God-man", widely believed to be Avatar of the age
*
1931 -
Dervla Murphy, Irish traveller and author
*
1933 -
Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
*
1934 -
Robert Towne, American writer, director, producer, and actor
* 1934 -
Lew Hoad, Australian
tennis player (d.
1994)
*
1935 -
Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (d.
1971)
*
1941 -
Franco Nero, Italian actor
*
1943 -
Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (d.
1964)
* 1943 -
Sue Nicholls (The Honourable Susan Frances Harmer Nicholls), British actress
*
1944 -
Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-born film producer and writer
* 1944 -
James Toback, American writer and director
*
1945 -
Steve Landesberg, American actor
*
1953 -
Francis Cabrel, French singer
*
1954 -
Bruce Hornsby, American musician
* 1954 -
Glenn Brummer, Baseball player
*
1955 -
Steven Brust, American author
* 1955 -
Ludovico Einaudi, Italian composer and pianist
*
1956 -
Steve Harvey, American actor and comedian
*
1959 -
Maxwell Caulfield, British actor
* 1959 -
Dominique Dunne, American actress (d.
1982)
*
1965 -
Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet and historian
*
1968 -
Hamid Hassani, Iranian lexicographer
*
1969 -
Jonathan Seet, Canadian singer
*
1970 -
Zoë Ball, British television and radio presenter
*
1971 -
Lisa Kushell, American actress
*
1972 -
Chris Adler, American Musician (
Lamb of God)
*
1974 -
Jamie Sharper, American football player
*
1977 -
Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver
*
1980 -
David Britz, American nanotechnologist
*1980 -
Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player
*
1984 -
Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer
*
1992 -
Miley Cyrus, American child actress
*
947 -
Berthold, Duke of Bavaria*
1407 -
Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of
Charles VI of France (murdered) (b.
1372)
*
1457 - King
Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (b.
1440)
*
1499 -
Perkin Warbeck, Flemish imposter (b.
1474)
*
1503 -
Margaret of York, wife of
Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (b.
1446)
*
1572 -
Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (b.
1503)
*
1585 -
Thomas Tallis, English composer (b.
1505)
*
1616 -
Richard Hakluyt, English writer (b.
1552)
*
1682 -
Claude Lorrain, French painter (b.
1604)
*
1763 -
Friedrich Graf von Seckendorf, German soldier (b.
1673)
*
1769 -
Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (b.
1711)
*
1783 -
Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b.
1714)
*
1803 -
Roger Newdigate, British politician (b.
1719)
*
1804 -
Richard Graves, British writer (b.
1715)
*
1807 -
Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (b.
1747)
*
1814 -
Elbridge Gerry,
Vice President of the United States of America (b.
1744)
*
1833 -
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (b.
1762)
*
1890 - King
William III of the Netherlands (b.
1817)
*
1902 -
Walter Reed, American bacteriologist (b.
1851)
*
1923 -
Urmuz, Romanian writer (b.
1883)
*
1934 -
Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b.
1895)
*
1937 -
Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b.
1858)
* 1937 -
George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b.
1858)
*
1948 -
Hack Wilson,
Baseball Hall of Famer (b.
1900)
*
1966 -
Sean O'Kelly,
President of Ireland (b.
1882)
*
1973 -
Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (b.
1889)
*
1974 -
Cornelius Ryan, Irish-born author (b.
1920)
*
1979 -
Merle Oberon, British actress (b.
1911)
* 1979 -
Judee Sill, American musician and songwriter (b.
1944)
*
1990 -
Roald Dahl, British author (b.
1916)
*
1991 -
Klaus Kinski, German actor (b.
1926)
*
1992 -
Roy Acuff, American musician (b.
1903)
* 1992 -
Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (b.
1922)
*
1994 -
Art Barr, Professional wrestler
*
1995 -
Louis Malle, French film director (b.
1932)
* 1995 -
Junior Walker, American musician (b.
1931)
*
2002 -
Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b.
1911)
*
2004 -
Pete Franklin, American talk radio host (b.
1928)
*
2005 -
Frank Gatski, American football player (center) (b.
1919)
*
R.C. Saints -
Pope Clement I, Saint
Columban*
Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Qawl (Speech) - First day of the 14th month of the Bahá'í Calendar
*
Georgia -
St George's Day*
Japan - Kinro kansha no hi (
Labour Thanksgiving Day)
*
Slovenia -
Rudolf Maister Day
*
Isle of Man General Election every five years (next
2006)
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