What are the important events that happened on November 23? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

November 23: Facts & Myths About This Day

November 23 is the 327^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 38 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 10, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 489,960 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectaicosaheptagon’ day.

Sagittarius is the zodiac 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 86 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,720 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 23 Historical Events

• 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.
• 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.
• 1910 –
  Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2010 –
  The Bombardment of Yeonpyeong occurs on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. The North Korean artillery attack kills 2 civilians and 2 South Korean marines.
• 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.

Who were born on November 23?

• 1871 –
  William Watt, Premier of Victoria, Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives (d. 1946)
• 1916 –
  Michael Gough, English actor (d. 2011)
• 1925 –
  Johnny Mandel, American songwriter
• 1960 –
  Robin Roberts, American television reporter
• 1968 –
  Kirsty Young, Scottish television journalist
• 1971 –
  Vin Baker, American basketball player
• 1976 –
  Murat Salar, Turkish footballer
• 1985 –
  Ahn Hyun-Soo, South Korean short track skater
• 1986 –
  Gia Johnson, British fashion model
• 1986 –
  Maxene Magalona, Filipina actress

Who died on November 23?

• 1457 –
  King Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1440)
• 1783 –
  Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b. 1714)
• 1902 –
  Walter Reed, American bacteriologist (b. 1851)
• 1905 –
  Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, English physiologist (b. 1828)
• 1948 –
  Hack Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• 1973 –
  Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (b. 1889)
• 1994 –
  Tommy Boyce, American songwriter (b. 1939)
• 1995 –
  Junior Walker, American musician (b. 1931)
• 2001 –
  Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (b. 1936)
• 2006 –
  Nick Clarke, English radio presenter (b. 1948)