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 328th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 38 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 10, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,872,000 minutes 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 ‘trihectaicosaoctagon’ 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 67 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 4,355 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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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.
- 1867 –The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
- 1918 –Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- 1971 –Representatives of the People’s Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
- 1972 –The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching N-1 Rocket. The launch is a failure and the rocket is destroyed.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2001 –The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
- 2009 –The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Mindanao, Philippines
Who were born on November 23?
- 1221 –King Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284)
- 1781 –Theodor Valentin Volkmar, German politician (d. 1847)
- 1889 –Harry Sunderland, Australian rugby league administrator and journalist (d. 1964)
- 1930 –Jack McKeon, American baseball manager
- 1933 –Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and revolutionary
- 1951 –David Rappaport, English actor (d. 1990)
- 1971 –Lisa Arch, American actress
- 1974 –Malik Rose, American basketball player
- 1978 –Kayvan Novak, English actor
- 1984 –Amruta Khanvilkar, Indian actress
Who died on November 23?
- 947 –Berthold, Duke of Bavaria
- 1616 –Richard Hakluyt, English writer (b. 1552)
- 1937 –George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858)
- 1995 –Louis Malle, French film director (b. 1932)
- 1996 –Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photojournalist (b. 1943)
- 2001 –Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (b. 1936)
- 2005 –Constance Cummings, American-born British actress (b. 1910)
- 2006 –Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962)
- 2006 –Betty Comden, American lyricist (b. 1917)
- 2010 –Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actress (b. 1937)
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