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.
- 1531 –The Second war of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
- 1644 –John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
- 1910 –Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
- 1914 –Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
- 1936 –Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
- 1943 –World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
- 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.
- 1971 –Representatives of the People’s Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
- 1972 –The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching N-1 Rocket. The launch is a failure and the rocket is destroyed.
- 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.
- 1985 –Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, 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.
- 2004 –The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.
- 2009 –The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Mindanao, Philippines
- 2010 –The Bombardment of Yeonpyeong occurs on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. The North Korean artillery attack kills 2 civilians and 2 South Korean marines.
- 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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