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

• 534 BC –
  Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.
• 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.
• 1510 –
  First campaign of Ottoman Empire against Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack its capital Kutaisi and burn Gelati Monastery.
• 1531 –
  The Second war of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
• 1867 –
  The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1980 –
  A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 3,000 people.
• 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.

Who were born on November 23?

• 1907 –
  Lars Leksell, Swedish physician (d. 1986)
• 1915 –
  John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1927 –
  Guy Davenport, American author and scholar (d. 2005)
• 1946 –
  Bobby Rush, American politician
• 1974 –
  Juventud Guerrera, Mexican professional wrestler
• 1980 –
  David Britz, American nano-technologist
• 1980 –
  Ishmael Beah, Sierra-Leone born American author
• 1980 –
  Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player
• 1983 –
  Thomas Pridgen, American musician
• 1992 –
  Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer

Who died on November 23?

• 1503 –
  Bona of Savoy, Italian noblewoman (b. 1449)
• 1833 –
  Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (b. 1762)
• 1982 –
  Grady Nutt, American humorist (b. 1934)
• 1983 –
  Juhan Muks, Estonian artist (b. 1899)
• 1983 –
  Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor (b. 1938)
• 1990 –
  Bo Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1953)
• 1990 –
  Roald Dahl, British author (b. 1916)
• 1991 –
  Klaus Kinski, German actor (b. 1926)
• 1992 –
  Roy Acuff, American country musician (b. 1903)
• 2010 –
  James Tyler, American musicologist and author (b. 1940)