About November 23
November 23, 2024 is the 328th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 38 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 67 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 23
- 534 BC –Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.
- 1248 –Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
- 1644 –John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
- 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.
- 1876 –Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
- 1889 –The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
- 1914 –Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
- 1934 –An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
- 1940 –World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
- 1955 –The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia.
- 1963 –The BBC broadcasts the first ever episode of Doctor Who (starring William Hartnell) which is the world’s longest running science fiction drama.
- 1976 –Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
- 1979 –In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional 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 3,000 people.
- 1981 –Iran-Contra Affair: 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.
- 1996 –Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
- 2004 –The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.
- 2006 –A series of bombing kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
- 2009 –The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Mindanao, Philippines
- 2011 –Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, The Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh Signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
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