About November 23
November 23, 2020 is the 328th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 38 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 81 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1914 –Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
- 1918 –Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 1980 –A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 3,000 people.
- 2004 –The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.
- 2005 –Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.
- 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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