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, 29,397,600 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 ‘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

• 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.
• 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.
• 1946 –
  French Navy fire in Hai Phong, Viet Nam, kills 6,000 civilians.
• 1980 –
  A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 3,000 people.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2001 –
  The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
• 2003 –
  Rose Revolution: the Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
• 2004 –
  The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.
• 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?

• 1890 –
  El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)
• 1915 –
  John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1922 –
  Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish Galicia politician
• 1924 –
  Paula Raymond, American actress (d. 2003)
• 1949 –
  Sandra Stevens, British singer (Brotherhood of Man)
• 1953 –
  Francis Cabrel, French singer
• 1967 –
  Salli Richardson, American actress
• 1968 –
  Kirsty Young, Scottish television journalist
• 1977 –
  Adam Eaton, American baseball player
• 1987 –
  Nicklas Bäckström, Swedish ice hockey player

Who died on November 23?

• 947 –
  Berthold, Duke of Bavaria
• 955 –
  King Edred of England (b. c. 923)
• 1407 –
  Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France (b. 1372)
• 1457 –
  King Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1440)
• 1934 –
  Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
• 1966 –
  Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician (b. 1882)
• 1973 –
  Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (b. 1889)
• 1979 –
  Merle Oberon, British actress (b. 1911)
• 1998 –
  Dan Osman, American rock climber (b. 1963)
• 2002 –
  Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b. 1911)