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Events that Happened “A Day as Today”
November 23 – A Day as Today
- 43 a. C .: in Rome, Lex Titia makes official the pact for five years of common government between Marco Antonio, Octavio (heir to Julius Caesar) and Marco Emilio Lépido. The Second Triumvirate begins.
- 1097: in Spain, Alfonso VI confirms a land donation letter made to his son-in-law, Enrique de Borgoña, count of Portugal.
- 1248: in Seville, the Christian troops commanded by King Fernando III el Santo conquer the city.
- 1499: the pretender to the throne of England Perkin Warbeck is hanged for trying to escape from the Tower of London. He invaded England in 1497, calling himself the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
- 1510: first campaign of the Ottoman troops against the kingdom of Imereti (present Eastern Georgia). Ottoman troops sack their capital Kutaisi and set fire to the Gelati monastery.
- 1535: in London, Enrique VIII of England obtains that the Parliament confirms the ecclesiastical supremacy that this king attributes to himself.
- 1554: in Spain, King Carlos I publishes a royal order authorizing the Port of Malaga to carry out loading and unloading trade with the Muslims of Barbary.
- 1595: in Puerto Rico, the British corsairs Francis Drake and John Hawkins attack the port of San Juan. They are defeated (and Hawkins loses his life).
- 1624: in Rome, Urban VIII beatifies Francisco de Borja.
- 1642: the government of Viceroy Conde de Salvatierra begins in Mexico.
- 1700: in Rome, Giovanni Francesco Albani is appointed pope, adopting the name of Clement XI.
- 1808: in Spain ―in the framework of the War of Independence― the battle of Tudela – Navarra is fought.
- 1811: the Cortes of Cádiz approve the institution of the “National Lottery”.
- 1816: Colombian Francisco Morales is shot for his revolutionary actions against the established authorities.
- 1825: in Mexico, Pedro Sáinz succeeded in surrendering the last stronghold of Spanish troops in Mexican territory.
- 1851: the Venezuelan writer and polygraph Andrés Bello is appointed correspondent of the Royal Spanish Academy for his Grammar of the Castilian language.
- 1852: in France, the Moniteur announces the election of Napoleon III as Emperor of France.
- 1863: in the United States, and in the scope of the Civil War, the Battle of Chattanooga begins where the Union troops led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce the troops to initiate the counterattack against the Confederate army.
- 1889: the first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
- 1909: in Madrid the Palace of Communications is inaugurated.
- 1909: in New York the Strike begins in the New York shirt factories in 1909.
- 1910: Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
- 1912: the Catholic Publishing House is established in Madrid.
- 1912: in Santiago de Cali (Colombia) the first Colombian professional soccer team is founded: Deportivo Cali, known at that time as Cali Football Club
- 1914: the last remaining US occupation troops in the city withdrew from Veracruz.
- 1920: in Spain, the CNT is declared illegal.
- 1924: Edwin Hubble publishes his discovery of the Andromeda galaxy. The scientist proved that it was a galaxy and not a nebula, as previously believed. In this way, it was shown that the Milky Way was not the only galaxy in the universe.
- 1928: the agreement for the dispute of the first Soccer League in Spain is closed.
- 1940: in the framework of World War II, Belgium declares war on Italy.
- 1940: Romania signs the Tripartite Pact, becoming part of the Axis powers.
- 1943: within the Second World War, Tarawa and Makin Atoll (Butaritari) surrender to American forces.
- 1944: liberation of Strasbourg in the course of the Second World War.
- 1946: the French army opens fire on Hai Phong (Vietnam killing 6000 civilians).
- 1955: the Cocos Islands are transferred from control of the United Kingdom to Australia.
- 1957: in Ifni, Moroccan nationalist gangs attack the Spanish garrisons.
- 1959: General and President of France Charles de Gaulle, declares in a historic speech his vision of Europe, “from the Atlantic to the Urals”.
- 1963: In the United Kingdom, the BBC Television channel premieres the first episode of Doctor Who, the longest-running science fiction television series in history.
- 1965: the Soviet Union launches the Cosmos 96 probe to Venus, which fails when it fails to leave Earth’s orbit.
- 1967: In the United States, black American athletes decide to boycott the 1968 Olympics to protest against American apartheid.
- 1972: The Soviet Union makes a final attempt at the launch of the N-1 rocket.
- 1975: after a mass and a military parade before his coffin, in front of the Royal Palace in Madrid, Francisco Franco is buried in the Valley of the Fallen.
- 1977: in the Argentine city of Caucete (San Juan province) there is an earthquake of magnitude 7.4 on the Richter scale, with the result of 65 fatalities and numerous material damages. (Caucete earthquake of 1977).
- 1983: The Soviet Union officially interrupts negotiations with the United States on the reduction of medium-range nuclear weapons.
- 1985: in Ulster, more than 100,000 protesters demonstrate against the agreement between London and Dublin.
- 1991: in London, Freddie Mercury announces to the world that he is a carrier of the HIV virus.
- 1993: the American hard rock band Guns N ‘Roses publishes the album The Spaghetti Incident ?.
- 2001: Convention on cyber-crime is signed.
- 2003: In Georgia, President Eduard Shevardnadze resigns after massive protests.
- 2005: In Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president and becomes the first female leader in the history of Africa.
- 2005: in Chile the Valparaíso Metro is reopened, from La Puerto Station to Limache Station with new stations such as Francia Station, Recreo Station and Hospital Station (Valparaíso Metro). And thus eliminating the stations: German School Station, Labor Station, Valencia Station and Rumié Station and the Rumié being mentioned, it would be left without the possibility of rebuilding itself in the future.
- 2008: regional elections are held in Venezuela.
- 2010: Nintendo releases the game Super Mario Galaxy 2, the sequel to Super Mario Galaxy, which was released first for Wii platforms and later on the Wii U Virtual Console.
- 2011: in the framework of the Arab Spring, after eleven months of protests in Yemen, President Ali Abdullah Saleh accepts the agreement to transfer the power of the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
- 2013: The 50th anniversary of the British television series Doctor Who occurs.
- 2013: a national presentation ceremony of the civil platform Movimiento Ciudadano is held in Barcelona.
- 2016: The international day of Greek etymologies is celebrated in Athens.
Who was Born “A Day as Today”?
November 23 – A Day as Today
- 912: Otto I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973).
- 1221: Alfonso X el Sabio, King of Castile and León (d. 1284).
- 1402: Juan de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468).
- 1553: Prospero Alpini, Italian physicist and botanist (d. 1617).
- 1608: Francisco Manuel de Melo, Spanish-Portuguese writer (d. 1666).
- 1609: Sophia Eleanor of Saxony, German aristocrat (d. 1671).
- 1616: John Wallis, British mathematician (d. 1703).
- 1632: Jean Mabillon, French monk and scholastic (d. 1707).
- 1666: Francisco Ximénez, Spanish religious, chronicler, philologist and biographer (f. 1723).
- 1715: Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799).
- 1760: François Babeuf, French politician (d. 1797).
- 1804 – Franklin Pierce, American President (d. 1869).
- 1820: Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d. 1884).
- 1837: Johannes van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize winner for physics in 1910 (d. 1923).
- 1838: Stephanos Skuludis, Greek banker and politician (d. 1928).
- 1840: Estanislao del Canto Arteaga, Chilean soldier (d. 1923).
- 1845: Fernando Villaamil, Spanish sailor (d. 1898).
- 1852: Máximo Tajes, Uruguayan president (d. 1912).
- 1859: Billy The Kid (| Billy the Child), American criminal (d. 1881).
- 1860: Hjalmar Branting, Swedish politician (d. 1925).
- 1861: Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939).
- 1862: Pierre Clement Augustin Dangeard, French botanist (d. 1947).
- 1862: Alberto Williams, Argentine composer and pianist (d. 1952).
- 1869: Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942).
- 1875: Anatoli Lunacharski, Russian politician (d. 1933).
- 1876: Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946).
- 1878: André Caplet, French composer (d. 1925).
- 1883: José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (d. 1949).
- 1883: Alberto Insúa, Spanish writer and journalist (d. 1963).
- 1884: Walther Kranz, German philosopher (d. 1960).
- 1887: Boris Karloff, British actor (d. 1969).
- 1887 – Henry Moseley, British physicist (d. 1915).
- 1887: Humberto Pittamiglio, Uruguayan architect (d. 1966).
- 1888: Harpo Marx American actor (d. 1964).
- 1890: El Lissitzky, Russian artist (d. 1941).
- 1892: Erté, French-Russian illustrator and designer (d. 1990).
- 1897 – Karl Gebhardt, German SS doctor (d. 1948).
- 1899: Mestre Bimba, Brazilian wrestler, creator of the cappoeira (d. 1974).
- 1902: Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982).
- 1902: Ramón Valdivieso, Chilean doctor (d. 1970).
- 1903: Juan Jover Sañés, Spanish racing driver (d. 1960).
- 1909: René Schick, Nicaraguan politician (d. 1966).
- 1914: Wilson Tucker, American writer (d. 2006).
- 1915: John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992).
- 1915: Julio César Méndez Montenegro, Guatemalan president (f. 1996).
- 1916: Michael Gough, Malaysian-born British actor (d. 2011).
- 1916: Josefa Sabor, Argentine librarian and teacher (d. 2012)
- 1919: Cláudio Santoro, Brazilian composer (d. 1989).
- 1920: Paik Sun-yup, South Korean military (d. 2020).
- 1920: Paul Celan, German poet of Romanian origin (d. 1970).
- 1922: Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician (d. 2012).
- 1922: Luis D’Jallad, Argentine writer (d. 2008).
- 1924: Anita Linda, Filipino actress.
- 1925: Johnny Mandel, American jazz composer.
- 1925: José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran president between 1984 and 1989 (f. 1990).
- 1926: Sai Baba, Indian guru (d. 2011).
- 1926: Lili Massaferro (Lili Gacel), actress and Argentine guerrilla from Montonera (f. 2001).
- 1926: Carlos Semprún Maura, Spanish writer, playwright and journalist (d. 2009).
- 1927: Guy Davenport, American writer (d. 2005).
- 1927: Angelo Sodano, Italian cardinal.
- 1931: Héctor Jaramillo, Ecuadorian singer.
- 1933: Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer and conductor (f. 2020).
- 1933: Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and activist (d. 1977).
- 1934: Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994).
- 1935: Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971).
- 1937: Dora Cadavid, Colombian presenter and actress.
- 1939: Betty Everett, American singer (d. 2001).
- 1941: Oscar Alem, Argentine musician, pianist, double bass player and composer (f. 2017).
- 1941: Franco Nero, Italian actor.
- 1943: David Nolan, American politician (d. 2010).
- 1946: Adela Basch, Argentine writer.
- 1944: Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-American screenwriter.
- 1944: James Toback, American film director.
- 1945: Jim Doyle, American politician.
- 1945: Dennis Nilsen, British serial killer.
- 1946: Giorgos Koudas, Greek footballer.
- 1948: Bruce Vilanch, American actor and screenwriter.
- 1948: Benjamin Clariond, Mexican politician.
- 1950: Lourdes Deschamps, Mexican actress and comedian (d. 2018).
- 1953: Francis Cabrel, French singer.
- 1954: Ross Brawn, British Formula 1 engineer.
- 1954: Bruce Hornsby, American musician.
- 1955: Ludovico Einaudi, Italian composer and pianist.
- 1955: Mary Landrieu, American politician.
- 1958: María Elena Moyano, Peruvian activist, assassinated by Shining Path (f. 1992).
- 1959: Dominique Dunne, American actress.
- 1962: Carlinhos Brown, Brazilian musician.
- 1962: Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan politician, diplomat and union leader, president of Venezuela since 2013.
- 1963: Esther García Llovet, Spanish writer.
- 1964: Erika Buenfil, Mexican actress.
- 1965: Don Frye, American actor and wrestler.
- 1966: Vincent Cassel, French actor.
- 1967: Salli Richardson, American actress.
- 1969: Robin Padilla, Filipino actor.
- 1969: Olivier Beretta, Monegasque racing driver.
- 1970: Oded Fehr, Israeli actor.
- 1970: Karsten Müller, German chess player.
- 1971: Lisa Arch, American actress.
- 1971: Vin Baker, American basketball player.
- 1972: Chris Adler, American musician of Lamb of God.
- 1972: Antonio Orozco, Spanish singer-songwriter.
- 1974: Juventud Guerrera, Mexican fighter.
- 1974: Malik Rose, American basketball player.
- 1976: Page Kennedy, American actor.
- 1977: Christopher Amott, Swedish guitarist.
- 1978: Tote (Jorge López-Marco), Spanish soccer player.
- 1978: Alison Mosshart, American singer-songwriter, of the bands The Kills, The Dead Weather, and Discount.
- 1979: Kelly Brook, British actress and model.
- 1979: Nihat Kahveci, Turkish footballer.
- 1981: César Pereyra, Argentine soccer player.
- 1982: Asafa Powell, Jamaican athlete.
- 1983: Thomas Pridgen, American drummer, of the band The Mars Volta.
- 1983: Gastón Dalmau, Argentine actor and singer.
- 1983: Nasser Al-Shamrani, Saudi footballer.
- 1984: Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer.
- 1986: Maxene Magalona, Filipino actress.
- 1986: Alejandro Alfaro, Spanish soccer player.
- 1987: Snooki, actress and American television character.
- 1988: Ezequiel Orozco, Mexican soccer player (f. 2018).
- 1988: Dmytro Lyopa, Ukrainian footballer.
- 1990: Shaun Hutchinson, British footballer.
- 1991: Facundo Regalia, Argentine motorist.
- 1992: Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer.
- 1995: Christopher Velez, American singer of Ecuadorian origin, member of the band CNCO.
- 1998: Bradley Steven Perry, American actor.
Who Left Us “A Day as Today”?
November 23 – A Day as Today
- 615: Columban de Luxeuil, Irish saint (b. 540).
- 940: Bertold of Bavaria, German aristocrat (b. 900).
- 955: Edred, English king (b.923).
- 1407: Louis de Valois, French aristocrat (b.1372).
- 1457: Ladislaus the Posthumous, King of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1440).
- 1499: Perkin Warbeck, Dutch aristocrat, pretender to the Flemish throne (b. 1474).
- 1503: Margaret of York, English aristocrat (b.1446).
- 1534: Beatriz Galindo, Spanish writer and humanist (b.1465).
- 1572: Bronzino, Italian painter (b.1503).
- 1616: Richard Hakluyt, British writer (b. 1552).
- 1637: Carlos Coloma, Spanish military, historian and diplomat (b. 1567).
- 1682: Claude Lorrain, French painter (b.1604).
- 1763: Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff, German military and diplomat (b. 1673).
- 1804: Richard Graves, British minister and writer (b. 1715).
- 1814: Elbridge Gerry, politician and American vice president (b. 1744).
- 1826: Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (b. 1747).
- 1833: Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French military man and Marshal (b. 1762).
- 1834: Henriette Aymer de la Chevalerie, founder of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (b. 1767).
- 1853: Francisco Andrevi, Spanish composer (b. 1786).
- 1856: Manuela Sáenz, Ecuadorian patriot and independentist (b. 1795).
- 1866: Paul Gavarni, French cartoonist (b.1804).
- 1869: Domingo Dulce, Spanish military man (b.1808).
- 1871: Mariano Melgarejo, president of Bolivia, considered a tyrant (b. 1820).
- 1872: John Bowring, British politician, translator, writer and traveler (b. 1792).
- 1890: William III, Dutch king between 1849 and 1890 (b. 1817).
- 1892: Victoriano Cepeda, professor, Mexican military and politician (b. 1826).
- 1897: Ramón Lista, explorer and Argentine genocide (b. 1856).
- 1902: Walter Reed, American surgeon and bacteriologist (b. 1851).
- 1903: Friedrich Carl Lehmann, German biologist (b.1850).
- 1905 – John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, British physiologist (b.1828).
- 1910 – Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physicist (b.1862).
- 1923: Urmuz, Romanian lawyer and jurist (b. 1883).
- 1927: Miguel Agustín Pro, Mexican Blessed (b. 1891).
- 1927: Luis Segura Vilchis, Mexican engineer (b.1903).
- 1934: Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b.1895).
- 1936: Désiré Briden, French sculptor (b.1850).
- 1937 – Jagdish Chandra Bose, Hindu physicist (b.1858).
- 1937: George Albert Boulenger, Anglo-Belgian zoologist (b. 1858).
- 1948: Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Azerbaijani composer, playwright and publicist (b. 1885).
- 1958: Johnston McCulley, American writer (b. 1883).
- 1966: Seán T. O’Kelly, Irish politician, second president of his country (b. 1882).
- 1972: Marie Wilson, American actress (b.1916).
- 1973: Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (b. 1889).
- 1973: José Alfredo Jiménez, Mexican singer-songwriter (b.1926).
- 1973: Gerardo Masana, Argentine musician, of the humorous group Les Luthiers (b. 1937).
- 1973: Constance Talmadge, American actress (b.1898).
- 1974: Cornelius Ryan, American journalist and writer (b.1920).
- 1976: André Malraux, French writer, historian and politician (b.1901).
- 1979: Gilda Abreu, Brazilian actress, singer and filmmaker (b.1904).
- 1979: Merle Oberon, American actress (b.1911).
- 1979: Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter (b.1944).
- 1982: Adoniran Barbosa, Brazilian artist (b.1910).
- 1987: Antonio Sastre, Argentine soccer player (b.1911).
- 1990: Roald Dahl, British writer. (b.1916)
- 1990: Baudilio Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player (b.1953).
- 1990: Ignacio Gallego, Spanish politician, president of the PCPE (b. 1914).
- 1991: Klaus Kinski, German actor (b.1926).
- 1994: Art Barr, American professional wrestler (b. 1966).
- 1994: Álvaro del Portillo, opusdeist Spanish bishop (b. 1914).
- 1994: Félix Rotaeta, Spanish actor and film director (b. 1942).
- 1995: Louis Malle, French filmmaker (b.1932).
- 2000: Aljoscha Rompe, German punk singer (b.1947).
- 2001: Luis Santaló, Spanish mathematician (b.1911).
- 2002: Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b.1911).
- 2002: Ángel Martín Municio, Spanish biologist and academic (b. 1923).
- 2004: Adolfo Castelo, Argentine journalist (b.1935).
- 2005: Constance Cummings, British actress (b.1910).
- 2006: Alexander Litvinenko, Russian military and spy (b.1962).
- 2006: Philippe Noiret, French actor (b.1930).
- 2006: Anita O’Day, American singer (b.1919).
- 2007: Francesc Candel, Spanish writer and journalist (b. 1925).
- 2007: Vladas Douksas, Uruguayan soccer player (b.1933).
- 2010: Ingrid Pitt, British actress of Polish origin (b. 1937).
- 2011: Luis Fernando Jaramillo, Colombian politician and businessman (b.1935).
- 2012: José Luis Borau, Spanish filmmaker and member of the Royal Spanish Academy (b.1929).
- 2012: Héctor Camacho, Puerto Rican boxer (b.1962).
- 2012: Larry Hagman, American actor (b.1931).
- 2013: Juan Peláez, Mexican actor (b.1948).
- 2016: Rita Barberá, Spanish politician (b.1948).
- 2019: Enrique Iturriaga, Peruvian composer and pedagogue (b.1918).
What is Celebrated “A Day as Today”?
November 23 – A Day as Today
- International day of Greek etymologies.
- Mexico: Navy Day.
- Japan: Labor Thanksgiving Day, the day to give thanks for having a job.
- European Union: European Homeless Day.
Catholic Santoral “A Day as Today”
November 23 – A Day as Today
- Saint Amphiloquy of Iconium
- Saint Cecilia Yu So-sa
- San Clemente I
- Saint Clement of Metz
- Saint Columban of Luxeuil
- Holy Happiness of Rome
- Saint Gregory of Agrigento
- Saint Lucretia of Merida
- Santa Mustiola
- San Severino recluse
- Saint Sisinius of Cyzicus
- Saint Trudon of Sarquinium
- Blessed Margaret of Savoy
- Blessed María Cecilia Cendoya y Araquistain
- Blessed Miguel Agustin Pro.
What Sign of the Zodiac Rules those Born “A Day as Today”?
November 23 – A Day as Today
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November 23 – A Day as Today
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