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What happend on 23. November in History
In our data base we found 337 events happened on 23. November:
• 1221: Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284) [category: Births]
• 1248: Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile. [category: Events]
• 1402: Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468) [category: Births]
• 1407: Louis I, Duke of Orléans (b. 1372) [category: Deaths]
• 1417: William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487) [category: Births]
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• 1457: Ladislaus the Posthumous, Hungarian king (b. 1440) [category: Deaths]
• 1499: Perkin Warbeck, Flemish royal imposter (b. 1474) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1503: Bona of Savoy (b. 1449) [category: Deaths]
• 1503: Margaret of York (b. 1446) [category: Deaths]
• 1510: First campaign of Ottoman Empire against Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack its capital Kutaisi and burn Gelati Monastery. [category: Events]
• 1531: The Second war of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland. [category: Events]
• 1553: Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617) [category: Births]
• 1572: Bronzino, Italian painter and poet (b. 1503) [category: Deaths]
• 1585: Thomas Tallis, English composer (b. 1505) [category: Deaths]
• 1616: John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703) [category: Births]
• 1616: Richard Hakluyt, English author (b. 1552) [category: Deaths]
• 1632: Jean Mabillon, French monk and scholar (d. 1707) [category: Births]
• 1641: Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch politician (d. 1720) [category: Births]
• 1644: John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship. [category: Events]
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• 1682: Claude Lorrain, French painter (b. 1604) [category: Deaths]
• 1687: Jean Baptiste Senaillé, French composer and violinist (d. 1730) [category: Births]
• 1705: Thomas Birch, English historian (d. 1766) [category: Births]
• 1715: Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799) [category: Births]
• 1719: Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777) [category: Births]
• 1733: The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies. [category: Events]
• 1749: Edward Rutledge, American politician, 39th Governor of South Carolina, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1800) [category: Births]
• 1760: François-Noël Babeuf, French journalist and activist (d. 1797) [category: Births]
• 1763: Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff, German field marshal and diplomat (b. 1673) [category: Deaths]
• 1769: Constantine Mavrocordatos, Greek prince (b. 1711) [category: Deaths]
• 1781: Theodor Valentin Volkmar, German politician, 1st Mayor of Marburg (d. 1847) [category: Births]
• 1785: Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest, 21st Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1853) [category: Births]
• 1803: Theodore Dwight Weld, American activist (d. 1895) [category: Births]
• 1803: Roger Newdigate, English politician (b. 1719) [category: Deaths]
• 1804: Franklin Pierce, American politician, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869) [category: Births]
• 1804: Ivan Mane Jarnović, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1747) [category: Deaths]
• 1804: Richard Graves, English minister and author (b. 1715) [category: Deaths]
• 1807: Jean-François Rewbell, French lawyer and politician (b. 1747) [category: Deaths]
• 1808: French and Poles defeat the Spanish at battle of Tudela [category: Events]
• 1814: Elbridge Gerry, American politician, 5th Vice President of the United States of America (b. 1744) [category: Deaths]
• 1820: Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and author (d. 1884) [category: Births]
• 1833: Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French army officer (b. 1762) [category: Deaths]
• 1837: Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923) [category: Births]
• 1838: Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and politician, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1928) [category: Births]
• 1859: Billy the Kid, American criminal (d. 1881) [category: Births]
• 1860: Hjalmar Branting, Swedish politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925) [category: Births]
• 1861: Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1864: Henry Bourne Joy, American businessman (d. 1936) [category: Births]
• 1867: The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody. [category: Events]
• 1869: Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942) [category: Births]
• 1871: William Watt, Australian politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1875: Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian politician (d. 1933) [category: Births]
• 1876: Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1878: Frank Pick, English businessman (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1883: José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (d. 1949) [category: Births]
• 1886: Eduards Smiļģis, Latvian actor and theatre director (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1887: Boris Karloff, English actor (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1887: Eduardo Corrochio, Spanish dancer (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1887: Henry Moseley, English physicist (d. 1915) [category: Births]
• 1888: Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1889: Harry Sunderland, Australian sports administrator and journalist (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1889: The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. [category: Events]
• 1890: El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1890: William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817) [category: Deaths]
• 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 his heir. [category: Events]
• 1892: Erté, Russian-French illustrator and designer (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1896: Tsunenohana Kan'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 31st Yokozuna (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1896: Venere Pizzinato, Italian super-centenarian (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1897: Karl Gebhardt, German SS doctor (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1897: Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bengali−English author (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1899: Manuel dos Reis Machado, Brazilian martial artist (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1899: Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman (b. 1837) [category: Deaths]
• 1902: Aaron Bank, American army officer (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1902: Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1905: John Burdon-Sanderson, English physiologist (b. 1828) [category: Deaths]
• 1907: Lars Leksell, Swedish physician (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1908: Nelson S. Bond, American author (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1909: Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1910: Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862) [category: Deaths]
• 1910: Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden. [category: Events]
• 1912: George O'Hanlon, American actor (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1914: Donald Nixon, American businessman (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1914: Roger Avon, English actor (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1914: Wilson Tucker, American author (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1914: Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair. [category: Events]
• 1915: John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1916: Michael Gough, English actor (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1916: P. K. Page, Canadian poet (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1918: Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [category: Events]
• 1920: Paul Celan, Romanian-German poet (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1920: Wayne Thiebaud, American painter [category: Births]
• 1921: Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1922: Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1923: Billy Haughton, American harness racer and trainer (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1923: Daniel Brewster, American politician (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1923: Julien J. LeBourgeois, American admiral (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1923: Urmuz, Romanian lawyer and author (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1924: Anita Linda, Filipino actress [category: Births]
• 1924: Colin Turnbull, English-American anthropologist (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1924: Paula Raymond, American actress (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1924: Edwin Hubble's scientific discovery that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula within our galaxy, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe, was first published in a newspaper. [category: Events]
• 1925: Johnny Mandel, American composer [category: Births]
• 1925: José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran politician, President of El Salvador (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1926: R. L. Burnside, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1926: Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1927: Angelo Sodano, Italian cardinal [category: Births]
• 1927: Guy Davenport, American author and scholar (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1928: Jerry Bock, American composer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1929: Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and author [category: Births]
• 1930: Jack McKeon, American baseball player and manager [category: Births]
• 1931: Gloria Lynne, American singer [category: Births]
• 1932: Michel David-Weill, French banker [category: Births]
• 1933: Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and activist (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1933: Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer and conductor [category: Births]
• 1934: Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1934: Robert Towne, American screenwriter and director [category: Births]
• 1934: Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1935: Vladislav Volkov, Soviet astronaut (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1936: Robert Barnard, English author [category: Births]
• 1936: Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success. [category: Events]
• 1937: George Albert Boulenger, Belgian-English zoologist (b. 1858) [category: Deaths]
• 1937: Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858) [category: Deaths]
• 1937: Miklós Kovács Hungarian-Slovene poet (b. 1857) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: Esko Nikkari, Finnish actor [category: Births]
• 1939: Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1940: Luis Tiant, Cuban baseball player [category: Births]
• 1940: World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers. [category: Events]
• 1941: Franco Nero, Italian actor [category: Births]
• 1942: Susan Anspach, American actress [category: Births]
• 1943: Andrew Goodman, American activist (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1943: David Nolan, American activist and politician (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1943: Sue Nicholls, English actress [category: Births]
• 1943: World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1944: James Toback, American screenwriter and director [category: Births]
• 1944: Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer [category: Births]
• 1945: Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer [category: Births]
• 1945: Jerry Harris, American sculptor [category: Births]
• 1945: Jim Doyle, American politician, 44th Governor of Wisconsin [category: Births]
• 1945: Keith Hampshire, English-Canadian singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1945: Steve Landesberg, American actor and comedian (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1945: Tony Pond, English race car driver (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1946: Bobby Rush, American politician [category: Births]
• 1946: Diana Quick, English actress [category: Births]
• 1946: George Falconer, Scottish footballer (d. 2013) [category: Births]
• 1946: Giorgos Koudas, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1946: French Navy fire in Hai Phong, Viet Nam, kills 6,000 civilians. [category: Events]
• 1947: Jean-Pierre Foucault, French television host [category: Births]
• 1948: Bruce Vilanch, American actor and scriptwriter [category: Births]
• 1948: Frank Worthington, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1948: Hack Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1949: Alan Paul, American singer-songwriter and actor (The Manhattan Transfer) [category: Births]
• 1949: Jerry verDorn, American actor [category: Births]
• 1949: Sandra Stevens, English singer (Brotherhood of Man) [category: Births]
• 1949: Tom Joyner, American radio host [category: Births]
• 1950: Chuck Schumer, American politician [category: Births]
• 1950: Maik Galakos, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1951: David Rappaport, English actor (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1952: Bill Troiano, American tuba player [category: Births]
• 1953: Francis Cabrel, French singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1953: Johan de Meij, Dutch trombone player, conductor, and composer [category: Births]
• 1953: Rick Bayless, American chef [category: Births]
• 1954: Bruce Hornsby, American singer-songwriter and pianist (The Other Ones) [category: Births]
• 1954: Glenn Brummer, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1954: Ross Brawn, English engineer [category: Births]
• 1955: Dinos Kouis, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1955: Ludovico Einaudi, Italian pianist and composer [category: Births]
• 1955: Mary Landrieu, American politician [category: Births]
• 1955: Steven Brust, American author [category: Births]
• 1955: The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia. [category: Events]
• 1958: Johnston McCulley, American author (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: Dominique Dunne, American actress (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1959: Maxwell Caulfield, English-American actor [category: Births]
• 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." [category: Events]
• 1960: Robin Roberts, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1961: John Schnatter, American businessman, founded Papa John's Pizza [category: Births]
• 1961: Keith Ablow, American psychiatrist and author [category: Births]
• 1961: Merv Hughes, Australian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1962: Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan politician, Vice President of Venezuela [category: Births]
• 1963: Mamoru Takuma, Japanese murderer (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1963: The BBC broadcasts the first episode of Doctor Who (starring William Hartnell) which is the world's longest running science fiction drama. [category: Events]
• 1964: Frank Rutherford, Bahamian triple jumper [category: Births]
• 1965: J. T. the Brick, American radio host [category: Births]
• 1965: Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet and historian [category: Births]
• 1966: Jerry Kelly, American golfer [category: Births]
• 1966: Russell Watson, English tenor [category: Births]
• 1966: Vincent Cassel, French actor [category: Births]
• 1966: Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician, 2nd President of Ireland (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Gary Kirsten, South African cricketer [category: Births]
• 1967: Salli Richardson, American actress [category: Births]
• 1968: Hamid Hassani, Iranian scholar and lexicographer [category: Births]
• 1968: Kirsty Young, Scottish journalist [category: Births]
• 1969: Jonathan Seet, Singaporean-Canadian singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1969: Mike Lünsmann, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1969: Robin Padilla, Filipino actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Danny Hoch, American actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Karsten Mueller, German chess player and author [category: Births]
• 1970: Oded Fehr, Israeli actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Zoë Ball, English television and radio host [category: Births]
• 1970: Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean politician, 1st President of Singapore (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Chris Hardwick, American comedian, actor, and television host [category: Births]
• 1971: Khalid Al-Muwallid, Saudi Arabian footballer [category: Births]
• 1971: Lisa Arch, American actress [category: Births]
• 1971: Vin Baker, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1971: Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time. [category: Events]
• 1972: Alf-Inge Haaland, Norwegian footballer [category: Births]
• 1972: Chris Adler, American drummer (Lamb of God and Blotted Science) [category: Births]
• 1972: Marie Wilson, American actress (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching N-1 Rocket. [category: Events]
• 1973: Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (b. 1889) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Jamie Sharper, American football player [category: Births]
• 1974: Juventud Guerrera, Mexican wrestler [category: Births]
• 1974: Malik Rose, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1974: Saku Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1974: Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American journalist and author (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Kohei Suwama, Japanese wrestler [category: Births]
• 1976: Murat Salar, Turkish footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Page Kennedy, American actor [category: Births]
• 1976: André Malraux, French author (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment. [category: Events]
• 1977: Adam Eaton, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1977: Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver [category: Births]
• 1978: Ali Güneş, Turkish footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Alison Mosshart, American singer-songwriter (The Kills, The Dead Weather, and Discount) [category: Births]
• 1978: Kayvan Novak, English actor [category: Births]
• 1979: Kelly Brook, English actress and model [category: Births]
• 1979: Nihat Kahveci, Turkish footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Merle Oberon, Indian-American actress (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten. [category: Events]
• 1980: David Britz, American scientist and engineer [category: Births]
• 1980: Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leonean-American soldier and author [category: Births]
• 1980: Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1980: A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 3,000 people. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1982: Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter [category: Births]
• 1982: Colby Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1982: Dallas Johnson, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1982: Grady Nutt, American comedian and author (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Fatih Yiğituşağı, Turkish footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Nasser Al-Shamrani, Saudi Arabian footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Thomas Pridgen, American drummer (The Memorials and The Mars Volta) [category: Births]
• 1983: Juhan Muks, Estonian painter (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Amruta Khanvilkar, Indian actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1985: Viktor Ahn, South Korean speed skater [category: Births]
• 1985: Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid. [category: Events]
• 1986: Luigi Scaglia, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Maxene Magalona, Filipino actress [category: Births]
• 1987: Nicklas Bäckström, Swedish ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1987: Snooki, Chilean-American actress and author [category: Births]
• 1988: Saab Magalona, Filipino actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Sebastian Nachreiner, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Alena Leonova, Russian figure skater [category: Births]
• 1990: Bo Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1953) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Roald Dahl, Welsh author (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: The first all woman expedition to the South Pole (3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians) sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek. [category: Events]
• 1991: Klaus Kinski, German actor (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress [category: Births]
• 1992: Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Roy Acuff, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: The first Smartphone IBM Simon was introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1994: Art Barr, American wrestler (b. 1966) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Tommy Boyce, American songwriter (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Junior Walker, American singer and saxophonist (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Louis Malle, French director (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Art Porter, Jr., American saxophonist and songwriter (b. 1961) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125. [category: Events]
• 1997: Jorge Mas Canosa, Cuban-American activist (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Bradley Steven Perry, American actor [category: Births]
• 1998: Dan Osman, American rock climber (b. 1963) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Rayner Unwin, English publisher (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Mary Whitehouse, English activist (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: O. C. Smith, American singer (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary. [category: Events]
• 2002: Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Rose Revolution: the Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections. [category: Events]
• 2004: Pete Franklin, American radio host (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated. [category: Events]
• 2005: Constance Cummings, American-English actress (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Frank Gatski, American football player (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country. [category: Events]
• 2006: Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Betty Comden, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Jesus Blancornelas, Mexican journalist (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Nick Clarke, English journalist (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: A series of bombing kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003. [category: Events]
• 2007: Joe Kennedy, American baseball player (b. 1979) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Pat Walsh, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Robert Vesco, American financier (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, Bolivian footballer (b. 1971) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 2009: José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean journalist and historian (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Juzefas Jurgelevičius, Lithuanian footballer (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines [category: Events]
• 2010: Ingrid Pitt, Polish-English actress (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: James Tyler, American composer and author (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Joyce Howard, English actress (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: The Bombardment of Yeonpyeong occurs on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. The North Korean artillery attack kills 2 civilians and 2 South Korean marines. [category: Events]
• 2011: Jim Rathmann, American race car driver (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 2012: Chuck Diering, American baseball player (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Diana Isaac, English-New Zealand businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Go Native, Irish race horse (b. 2003) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Hal Trosky, Jr., American baseball player (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: José Luis Borau, Spanish actor, director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Larry Hagman, American actor and director (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Lawrence Guyot, American activist (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Nelson Prudêncio, Brazilian triple jumper (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Tadeusz Kwapień, Polish skier (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Veerapandy S. Arumugam, Indian politician (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 534_bc: Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage. [category: Events]
• 912: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973) [category: Births]
• 947: Berthold, Duke of Bavaria (b. 900) [category: Deaths]
• 955: Eadred, English king (b. 923) [category: Deaths]
• _: Alexander Nevsky (Repose, Russian Orthodox Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Columbanus [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest day on which Black Friday can fall, while November 29 is the latest; observed on the day after Thanksgiving. (United States), and its related observances: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Feast of Qawl (Speech) – The first day of the 14th month of the Bahá'í calendar. (Bahá'í Faith) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Felicitas of Rome [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Labour Thanksgiving Day (Japan) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: November 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Pope Clement I (Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and the Lutheran Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Rudolf Maister Day (Slovenia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: St George's Day or Giorgoba (Georgia) [category: Holidays and observances]