23rd
November, on this day
800 Charlemagne
arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo
III
1227 Polish Prince Leszek
I the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast
dukes at Gasawa
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 Areopagitica,
a pamphlet decrying censorship, and written by John
Milton is published
1654 French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise
Pascal experiences an intense, mystical vision that marks him
for life
1765 People of Frederick County, MD refuse to pay England's Stamp
tax
1808 Battle
of Tudela : battle of the Peninsular
War which resulted in the victory of the French under Marshal
Lannes against the Spanish
1832 French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium
1835 Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine, Troy, NY
1837 Battle
of Saint-Denis : Part of the Lower
Canada Rebellion
1844 Independence of the Duke
of Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark.
1852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake
Merced to drop 30' (9m)
1852 Britain's first four pillar boxes come into service on the Channel
Island of Jersey. The idea comes from English novelist Anthony
Trollope who worked for the General Post Office in London before
becoming a writer
1863 Third
Battle of Chattanooga : Confederate forces are defeated by the
Union Army at Chattanooga in Tennesse
1863 Patent granted for a process of making colour photographs
1867 The Manchester
Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England for rescuing two Irish
men from jail
1868 Louis
Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome colour photo process
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.
1889 In America, the world's first 'juke
box' is installed in a bar in Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco
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.
1890 General elections in Italy.
1903 Enrico
Caruso US debut (Metropolitan Opera House, NY) in "Rigoletto"
1903 Colorado Governor James
Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple
Creek to break up a miners' strike.
1904 3rd Olympic
games close in St Louis
1905 British Liberal Party leader Sir
Henry Campbell-Bannerman advocates Home Rule for Ireland - by
instalments - in a controversial speech in Scotland
1906 Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso is fined $10 for sexual
harassment
1910 Execution of wife-poisoner Dr
Hawley Harvey Crippen - hanged at Pentonville Prison in London
1914 World War I : End of Battle
of Ypres
1914 Mexican
Revolution : The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied
seven months earlier in response to the Tampico
Affair.
1921 US President Warren
Harding closes a loophole in the American prohibition laws by
banning doctors from prescribing alcohol for medicinal purposes
1934 An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers
an Italian garrison at Walwal,
which lay well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia
Crisis
1936 1st issue of Life,
picture magazine created by Henry
R Luce
1940 Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite
Pact, officially joining the Axis
Powers
1942
Steward Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat was torpedoed
1943 US forces seized control of Tarawa
and Makin from Japanese
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.
1948 Lens to provide zoom effects patented by FG Back
1954 For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above
the peak it reached just before the 1929
crash
1955 British transfer Cocos
(Keeling) Isands in Indian Ocean to Australia
1956 In Britain, the introduction of petrol rationing prompted by
the Egyptian blockade of the Suez Canal - the main oil route from
the Middle East to Europe
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."
1960 Tiros
2, a weather satellite is launched
1963 JFK's body, lay in repose in
East Room of White House
1963 In Britain, the BBC transmits the first episode of a new children's
drama, Dr
Who. The title role is played by actor William
Hartnell. His female assistant is played by Carole Ann Ford
1964 Beatles release "I
Feel Fine" and "She's a Woman"
1971 China People's Republic seated in UN Security Council
1976 British comedians Eric
Morecambe and Ernie
Wise receive the Order of the British Empire (OBE) from Queen
Elizabeth IIl
1976 Apneist
Jacques
Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without
breathing equipment.
1977 European weather satellite Meteosat
1 launched from Cape Canaveral
1979 In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas
McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of
Lord
Mountbatten
1980 4,800
die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy
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.
1985 EgyptAir
Flight 648 : 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijacked Egyptair
jet in Malta
1985 Retired CIA analyst Larry
Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China
1988 South Africa: Botha reprieves Sharpeville
Six
1989 Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines
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.
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 into the Indian
Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing
123.
1996 The Republic
of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization
1997 The financial world faces more turmoil as one of Japan's leading
stockbroking firms, Yamaichi
Securities, collapses with debts of £30 billion
1998 Agreement between Cambodian Prime Minister Hun
Sen and his rival, prince Norodom
Ranariddh
2001 Convention
on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
2003 Georgian president Eduard
Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed
elections.
2005 Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf, elected president of Liberia, is the first woman
to lead an African country
2007 MS
Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sank in the Antarctic
Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland
Islands.
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Birthdates which
occurred on November 23rd:
912 Otto I (the
Great) German king, Holy Roman emperor (962-73)
1221 Alfonso X (the Wise) king of Castile & Leon (1252)
1553 Prospero Alpini Italy, botanist/physician (De Medocoma Aegyptorum)
1749 Edward Rutledge (Gov-SC) signed Declaration of Independence
1804 Franklin Pierce 14th President (1853-1857)
1837 Javan der Waals Holland, physicist (Cont of Liquid & Gaseous
States)
1859 Billy the Kid [William H Bonney], criminal
1860 Karl Branting Sweden, statesman/diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921)
1862 Alberto Williams Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Etrerno Reposo)
1876 Manuel de Falla C diz Spain, composer (El Amor Brujo)
1883 Jose Clemente Orozco Mexico, painter (Epic of Culture in New
World)
1887 Boris Karloff [William H Pratt], Dulwich England, actor (Frankenstein)
1888 Harpo Marx [Adolph] NYC, actor/comedian (Marx brothers)
1894 Ture Persson Sweden, sprinter (Olympic-silver-1912)
19-- Dave Ellefson rock bassist (Megadeth-Rust in Peace)
19-- George Deloy Uruguay, actor (Ken-St Elsewhere, 9 to 5, Gen Hospital)
19-- Jerry verDorn actor (Ross-Guiding Light)
19-- Lucinda Fisher East Bourne UK, actress (One Life to Live)
1903 Victor Jory actor (Gone with the Wind, Papillon, Dodge City)
1915 Ellen Drew [Terry Ray], Kansas City MO, actress (Isle of Dead)
1915 John Dehner Staten Is NY, actor (Big Hawaii, Bare Essence)
1917 George O'Hanlon Brooklyn NY, actor (Calvin-Life of Riley, George
Jetson)
1917 Michael Gough Malaya, actor (Search for the Nile)
1920 Paul Celan Romanian poet (Collected Prose)
1926 Don Gordon Los Angeles CA, actor (Prentiss-Lucan)
1928 Jerry Bock US, Broadway composer (Fiddler on the Roof)
1930 Robert Easton Milwaukee, actor (Someone Up There Likes Me)
1930 William E Brock (Sen-D- )/US Secretary of Labor (1985-87)
1931 Yevgeni Grischin USSR, 500m/1500m speed skater (Oly-gold-1956,
60)
1933 Hayes Jenkins US, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1956)
1933 Krzysztof Penderecki Debica Poland, composer (Hiroshima Threnody)
1935 Vladislav N Volkov cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11)
1938 Oscar Robertson NBA guard (Cin, Milwaukee, Olympic-gold-1960)
1939 Susan Anspach NYC, actress (Grace-Yellow Rose, Blume in Love)
1940 Gosta Pettersson Sweden, cyclist (Olympic-silver-1968)
1943 Andrew Goodman civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1945 Steve Landesberg Bronx NY, comedian/actor (Barney Miller)
1951 Bernd Landvoigt German DR, coxless pairs (Olympics-gold-1976)
1951 David Rappaport London England, 3'11" actor (Wizard, Time
Bandits)
1951 Jorg Landvoigt German DR, coxless pairs (Olympics-gold-1976)
1952 Francie Larrieu Smith US, track runner (AAU 1 mile-1979)
1956 Michael Brainard LA, actor (Joey Martin-All My Children)
1956 Shane Gould Australia, 200m/400m freestyle swimmer (Oly-gold-1972)
1958 David Wallace Miami, actor (General Hospital, Babysitter, Humongus)
1959 Maxwell Caulfield Derbyshire England, actor (Miles-The Colbys)
1964 Boyd Kestner actor (Outsiders)
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Deaths which occurred on November 23rd:
1914 Elbrige Gerry VP (of Gerrymander fame), dies at 70
1962 Gloria Gordon actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 81
1972 Marie Wilson actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 56
1973 Paul Newlan actor (Capt Grey-M Squad)
1976 Andre Malraux France, novelist/art historian/puplic office. ("The
Voices of Silence"), dies at 75
1979 Merle Oberon actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), dies at 68
1982 Rev Grady Nutt actor (Hee Haw), dies at 47
1990 Bo Diaz catcher, crushed to death by a satellite dish, at 37
1990 Roald Dahl British short story writer, dies at 74
1991 Freddie Mercury lead singer of Queen, dies of aids at 46
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