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, 1,763,856,000 seconds 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

• 1248 –
  Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1936 –
  Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
• 1955 –
  The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia.
• 1963 –
  The BBC broadcasts the first ever episode of Doctor Who (starring William Hartnell) which is the world’s longest running science fiction drama.
• 1971 –
  Representatives of the People’s Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
• 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.
• 2003 –
  Rose Revolution: the Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
• 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.

Who were born on November 23?

• 1785 –
  Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest (d. 1853)
• 1804 –
  Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)
• 1875 –
  Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (d. 1933)
• 1920 –
  Paul Celan, Romanian-born German poet (d. 1970)
• 1943 –
  Sue Nicholls, British actress
• 1945 –
  Jim Doyle, American politician
• 1955 –
  Mary Landrieu, American politician
• 1969 –
  Jonathan Seet, Canadian singer
• 1971 –
  Khalid Al-Muwallid, Saudi footballer
• 1974 –
  Malik Rose, American basketball player

Who died on November 23?

• 1807 –
  Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (b. 1747)
• 1890 –
  King William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
• 1899 –
  Thomas Henry Ismay, British shipping company owner (b. 1837)
• 1905 –
  Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, English physiologist (b. 1828)
• 1979 –
  Judee Sill, American musician and songwriter (b. 1944)
• 1983 –
  Juhan Muks, Estonian artist (b. 1899)
• 1991 –
  Klaus Kinski, German actor (b. 1926)
• 2001 –
  O.C. Smith, American singer (b. 1932)
• 2002 –
  Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b. 1911)
• 2010 –
  Joyce Howard, British film actress (b. 1922)