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November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining.
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- 1499 - Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. In 1497 he invaded England claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
- 1644 - Areopagitica by John Milton is published.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins - Union forces led by General Ulysses S. GrantUlysses S. Grant Order 18th President Term of Office March 4, 1869 March 4, 1877 Followed Andrew Johnson Succeeded by Rutherford B. Hayes Date of Birth April 27, 1822 Place of Birth Point Pleasant, Ohio Date of Death July 23, 1885 Place of Death Mount McG reinforce troops at Chattanooga, TennesseeChattanooga is a city located in Hamilton County, Tennessee in the United States of America. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 155,554. It is the county seat of Hamilton County 6. The second largest campus of the University of Tenn and counter-attack ConfederateThe Confederate States of America CSA also known as the Confederacy was the confederacy formed by the southern states that seceded from the United States during the period of the American Civil War. The 11 states of the Confederacy were Alabama, Arkansas, troops.
- 18691869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). Events March 1 North German Confederation issues 10 gr and 30gr value stamps, printed on goldbeater's skin May 10 Transcontinental Railroad completed at Promontory, Utah. May 15 Wo - In DumbartonDumbarton District 1975-96 Dumbarton is a town in Scotland, lying on the north bank of the River Clyde. Dumbarton Castle, founded by the Romans and rebuilt several times since, dominates the area. Dumbarton functioned as the capital of the ancient kingdom, ScotlandScotland or in Scottish Gaelic, Alba is a country and former independent kingdom of northwest Europe, and one of the four nations comprising the United Kingdom. Scotland occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Scotland took part in a p the clipperA clipper was a very fast multiple-masted sailing ship of the 19th century. Generally narrow for their length, limited in their bulk freight carrying capacities, and small by later 19th century standards, the clippers had a large relative sail area. Clipp Cutty SarkThe Cutty Sark ( Scots for "short shirt") was one of the last clippers to be built, and the only one still surviving. She is preserved in dry dock at Greenwich, England. The ship is named after the fleet-footed witch featured in the poem Tam o' Shanter wr is launched (it was one of the last clippers to be built, and the only one still surviving).
- 1876 - Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy 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 Queen.
- 1903 - Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.
- 1936 - The first edition of Life is published.
- 1955 - The Cocos Islands are transferred from United Kingdom to Australian control.
- 1958 - Have Gun, Will Travel debuts on radio.
- 1960 - The long-running serial, Ma Perkins, airs its last episode on CBS radio.
- 1963 - The first episode of the sci-fi tv series Doctor Who debuts on the BBC
- 1971 - The People's Republic of China is given the Republic of China's seat on the United Nations Security Council (see China and the United Nations)
- 1979 - In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten
- 1980 - A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people
- 1981 - Iran-Contra scandal: 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
- 1984 - Boston College Quarterback Doug Flutie threw a game winning 48-yard Hail Mary pass to Gerard Phelan to defeat The University of Miami Hurricanes 45-41. It is one of the most famous plays in college football.
- 1985 - Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo (when the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos stormed the hijacked jetliner but 60 people die in the raid)
- 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.
- 1996 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes after running out of fuel into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros killing 127
- 2003 - Beleaguered Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections
- 2003 - Berkeley Breathed begins comic strip Opus
