About November 23
November 23, 2023 is the 327th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 38 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 79 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 23
- 1248 –Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
- 1510 –First campaign of Ottoman Empire against Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack its capital Kutaisi and burn Gelati Monastery.
- 1808 –French and Poles defeat the Spanish at battle of Tudela
- 1867 –The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
- 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.
- 1910 –Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
- 1918 –Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- 1936 –Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
- 1940 –World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
- 1943 –World War II: 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.
- 1946 –French Navy fire in Hai Phong, Viet Nam, kills 6,000 civilians.
- 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.\"
- 1972 –The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching N-1 Rocket. The launch is a failure and the rocket is destroyed.
- 1979 –In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
- 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.
- 2005 –Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.
- 2007 –MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.
- 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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