November 23

November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 See also

Events

1499 - Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. In 1497 he invaded England 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 ship Cutty Sark is launched (it was one of the last clipper ships to be built, and the only one surviving to the present 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.
1955 - The Cocos Islands are transferred from United Kingdom to Australian control.
1958 - Have Gun, Will Travel debuts on radio.
1963 - The first episode of the sci-fi tv series Doctor Who debuts on the BBC
1971 - The People's Republic of China is given the Republic of China'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
1985 - Gunmen hijack Egypt Air Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo (when the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos stormed the hijacked jetliner but 60 people die in the raid)
1996 - An Ethiopian Boeing 767 is hijacked, then crashes after running out of fuel into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros killing 127
2003 - Beleaguered Georgiann president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections

Births

912 - Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)
1760 - Francois Noel Babeuf, French revolutionary (d. 1797)
1804 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)
1819 - Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, Union General (d. 1901)
1859 - 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)
1888 - Harpo Marx, comedian (d. 1964)
1892 - Ert�, artist (d. 1990)
1901 - Marieluise Fleisser, author (d. 1974)
1902 - Victor Jory, actor (d. 1982)
1920 - Paul Celan, poet (d. 1970)
1924 - Colin Macmillan Turnbull, Scottish-born anthropologist
1925 - Jos� Napole�n Duarte, President of El Salvador (d. 1990)
1928 - Pierre Etaix, actor, film director and writer
1929 - G�nter 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
1959 - Maxwell Caulfield, actor

Deaths

1499 - Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the throne of England
1814 - Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States of America
1890 - King William III of the Netherlands
1955 - Shemp Howard, actor, comedian (The Three Stooges)
1965 - Queen Elizabeth of Belgium
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

Holidays and observances

Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Qawl (Speech) - First day of the 14th month of the Bahá'í Calendar