About November 23
November 23, 2025 is the 327th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 38 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 86 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 23
- 1531 –The Second war of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
- 1867 –The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.\"
- 1971 –Representatives of the People’s Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2001 –The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
- 2004 –The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.
- 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
- 2010 –The Bombardment of Yeonpyeong occurs on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. The North Korean artillery attack kills 2 civilians and 2 South Korean marines.
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