November 23
November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 38 days remaining.
Events
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 .
1644 - Areopagitica by John Milton is published.
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.
1869 - In Dumbarton , Scotland , the clipper Cutty Sark is launched -- one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day.
1876 - Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed ) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain .
1890 - King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become Queen.
1903 - Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.
1936 - The first edition of Life is published.
1943 - 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 .
1955 - The Cocos Islands are transferred from United Kingdom to Australian control.
1958 - Have Gun, Will Travel radio .
1960 - The long-running serial, Ma Perkins CBS radio.
1963 - The first episode of the sci-fi television series Doctor Who BBC .
1971 - The People's Republic of China is given the Taiwan 's seat on the United Nations Security Council . (See China and the United Nations )
1979 - In Dublin , Ireland , 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 4,800 people.
1981 - Iran-Contra scandal : 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 .
1984 - Boston College Quarterback Doug Flutie throws a game-winning 48-yard Hail Mary pass to Gerard Phelan to defeat the University of Miami Hurricanes 45-41. It is one of the most famous plays in American college football history.
1985 - Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo . When the plane lands in Malta , Egyptian commandos storm the hijacked jetliner, but 60 people die in the raid.
1990 - Punk rock band Bad Religion releases their seventh album, Against the Grain United States .
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.
1996 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes after running out of fuel off the coast of Comoros into the Indian Ocean , killing 127.
2003 - Beleaguered Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
2003 - Berkeley Breathed begins the comic strip Opus Births
912 - Otto I the Great , Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973 )
1749 - Edward Rutledge , U.S. statesman (d. 1800 )
1760 - François-Noël Babeuf , French revolutionary (d. 1797 )
1804 - Franklin Pierce , 14th President of the United States (d. 1869 )
1819 - Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss , Union General (d. 1901 )
1820 - Isaac Todhunter , English mathematician (d. 1884 )
1860 - Billy the Kid , bandit (d. 1881 )
1860 - Hjalmar Branting , Swedish statesman, winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1921 (d. 1925 )
1869 - Valdemar Poulsen , Danish engineer (d. 1942 )
1876 - Manuel de Falla , composer (d. 1946 )
1887 - Boris Karloff , actor (d. 1969 )
1887 - Eduardo Corrochio , world-champion tap dancer (d. 1943 )
1888 - Harpo Marx , comedian (d. 1964 )
1890 - El Lissitzky , Russian artist and architect (d. 1941 )
1892 - Erté , artist (d. 1990 )
1897 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri , writer (d. 1999 )
1901 - Marieluise Fleisser , author (d. 1974 )
1902 - Victor Jory , Canadian actor (d. 1982 )
1909 - Nigel Tranter , Scottish historian, writer (d. 2000 )
1920 - Paul Celan , poet (d. 1970 )
1921 - Fred Buscaglione , Italian singer and actor
1924 - Colin Macmillan Turnbull , Scottish-born anthropologist
1925 - José Napoleón Duarte , President of El Salvador (d. 1990 )
1928 - Pierre Etaix , actor, film director and writer
1929 - Günter Gaus , publicist and politician
1931 - Dervla Murphy , traveller, author
1933 - Krzysztof Penderecki , composer
1934 - Robert Towne , writer, director, producer, actor
1935 - Vladislav Volkov , cosmonaut
1938 - Herbert Achternbusch , author and film director
1941 - Franco Nero , actor
1944 - Joe Eszterhas , producer, writer
1944 - James Toback , writer, director
1945 - Steve Landesberg , American actor
1954 - Bruce Hornsby , musician
1955 - Steven Brust , fantasy author
1956 - Steve Harvey , actor, comedian
1959 - Maxwell Caulfield , actor
1959 - Dominique Dunne , actress (Poltergeist 1982 )
1970 - Zoë Ball , television and radio presenter
1974 - Jamie Sharper , American football player
1977 - Myriam Boileau , diver
Deaths
1407 - Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans , brother of Charles VI of France (murdered) (b. 1372 )
1457 - Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary
1499 - Perkin Warbeck , pretender to the throne of England
1503 - Margaret of Burgundy , wife of Charles the Bold
1585 - Thomas Tallis , composer
1682 - Claude Lorrain , French landscape painter
1807 - Jean-François Rewbell , French politician (b. 1747 )
1814 - Elbridge Gerry , Vice President of the United States of America
1890 - King William III of the Netherlands
1902 - Walter Reed , bacteriologist
1965 - Queen Elizabeth of Belgium
1966 - Sean O'Kelly , President of Ireland 1945-59
1973 - Sessue Hayakawa , actor
1974 - Cornelius Ryan , author
1979 - Merle Oberon , actress
1990 - Roald Dahl , author
1991 - Klaus Kinski , actor
1992 - Roy Acuff , country music performer
1995 - Louis Malle , director
1995 - Junior Walker , musician
2002 - Roberto Matta , Chilean painter
2004 - Pete Franklin , talk radio pioneer
Holidays and observances
Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Qawl (Speech) - First day of the 14th month of the Bahá'í Calendar
External links
November 22 - November 24 - October 23 - December 23 -- listing of all days
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