On this day in History - Nov. 23

0912 - Otto I the Great was born (d. 0973). Holy Roman Emperor.
1221 - King Alfonso X of Castile was born (d. 1284)
1402 - Jean de Dunois was born (d. 1468). French soldier.
1407 - Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans dies (b. 1372) murdered by agents of John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy, during a power struggle over control of the French king Charles VI of France, his brother.
1417 - William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel was born (d. 1487). English politician.
1457 - King Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary dies (b. 1440)
1499 - Perkin Warbeck dies. Flemish imposter
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.
1503 - Margaret of York dies (b. 1446). Wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy
1553 - Prospero Alpini was born (d. 1617). Italian physician and botanist.
1572 - Agnolo di Cosimo (Il Bronzino) dies (b. 1503). Italian artist whose portraits are prime examples of the Mannerist style and whose works are classic embodiments of the courtly ideal under the Medici dukes of the mid-16th century.
1585 - Thomas Tallis dies (b. c. 1505). English organist and composer. He's known as "the father of English cathedral music".
1608 - D. Francisco manuel de Melo was born in Lisbon (d. 1666). Portuguese writer, historian and militar.
1616 - John Wallis was born (d. 1703). English mathematician.
1616 - Richard Hakluyt dies. English writer
1632 - Jean Mabillon was born (d. 1707). French palaeographer and diplomat.
1644 - Areopagitica by John Milton is published.
1682 - Claude Lorrain dies. French painter.
1705 - Thomas Birch was born (d.1766). English historian
1715 - Pierre Charles Le Monnier was born (d. 1799). French astronomer.
1719 - Spranger Barry was born (d. 1777). Irish actor.
1749 - Edward Rutledge was born (d. 1800). U.S. statesman.
1760 - François-Noël Babeuf was born (d. 1797). French revolutionary.
1763 - Friedrich Graf von Seckendorf dies (b. 1673). German soldier.
1765 - The British Stamp Act received its first repudiation from jurists in the Frederick County Court House in Frederick, Maryland.
1775 - Em Lisboa, abertura do mercado da Praça da Figueira.
1783 - Yoriyuki Arima dies (b. 1714). Japanese mathematician.
1803 - Roger Newdigate dies (b. 1719). British politician.
1804 - Richard Graves dies (b. 1715). British writer.
1804 - Franklin Pierce was born (d. 1869). 14th President of the United States.
1807 - Jean-François Rewbell dies (b. 1747). French politician.
1814- Elbridge Gerry dies (b. 1744). Vice President of the United States of America
1820 - Isaac Todhunter was born (d. 1884). British mathematician.
1831 - José María Ramón Obando y del Campo assumes the presidency of Colombia
1833 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan dies (b. 1762). French marshal.
1835 - Henry Burden of Troy, New York, patented a machine to make horseshoes.
1837 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals was born (d. 1923). Dutch physicist. Nobel Prize in Physics laureate in 1910
1855 - In Mexico, the Ley Juárez abolished special courts for the clergy and military in an attempt by justice minister Benito Juárez to eliminate the remnants of colonialism in Mexico and promote equality.
1859 - Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney) was born in New York City (d. 1881). American outlaw and gunfighter.
1860 - Hjalmar Branting was born (d. 1925). Prime Minister of Sweden, and Nobel Prize laureate.
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.
1869 - In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched - one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day.
1869 - Valdemar Poulsen was born (d. 1942). Danish engineer.
1875 - Anatoly Lunacharsky was born (d. 1933). Russian literary critic and politician.
1876 - Manuel de Falla was born (d. 1946). Spanish composer.
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.
1883 - José Clemente Orozco was born- Mexican painter considered the most important 20th-century muralist to work in fresco.
1883 - José María Plácido Caamaño assumes the presidency of Ecuador
1887 - Eduardo Corrochio was born (d. 1943). Spanish-born dancer.
1887 - Boris Karloff was born (d. 1969). British actor (Frankenstein -1931).
1888 - Harpo Marx was born (d. 1964). American comedian.
1890 - El Lissitzky was born (d. 1941). Russian artist and architect.
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.
1890 - King William III of the Netherlands dies (b. 1817)
1891 - Brazil: Primeira Revolta da Armada, no Rio de Janeiro. O almirante Custódio de Melo, lidera um movimento militar que ameaçava bombardear a capital da recém proclamada república, em reação a atitude anticonstitucional do presidente marechal Deodoro da Fonseca, que foi levado a renunciar;
1891 - Floriano Peixoto toma lugar como 2º Presidente da República do Brasil, devido a renúncia do marechal Deodoro da Fonseca;
1892 - Erté was born (d. 1990). French artist.
1897 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri was born (d. 1999). Indian writer.
1902- Victor Jory was born (d. 1982). Canadian actor.
1902 - Walter Reed dies (b. 1851). American bacteriologist.
1923 - Urmuz dies (b. 1883). Romanian writer.
1903 - Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.
1904 - 3rd Olympic games close in St Louis
1907 - Lars Leksell was born (d. 1986). Swedish physician.
1909 - Nigel Tranter was born (d. 2000). British historian and writer.
1910 - Dr Crippen was hanged at Pentonville Prison, London, UK, for the murder of his wife Cora.
1916 -Julio César Méndez Montenegro was born. President of Guatemala (1966-1970)
1919 - Claudio Santoro was born (d. 1989). Brazilian erudit composer.
1920 - Paul Celan was born (d. 1970). Romanian-born German poet.
1921 - Fred Buscaglione was born. Italian singer and actor
1922 - Manuel Fraga Iribarne was born. President of Spanish Galicia
1923 - R.L. Burnside was born (d. 2005). American musician.
1923 - Billy Haughton was born (d. 1986). American harness driver and trainer.
1924 - Colin Macmillan Turnbull was born. British-born anthropologist
1925 - José Napoleón Duarte was born (d. 1990). President of El Salvador
1929 - George Clemenceau dies. French statesman.
1930 - Herberto Hélder was born in Funchal. Portuguese writer.
1931 - Dervla Murphy was born. Irish traveller and author
1933 - Krzysztof Penderecki was born. Polish composer
1933 - Joãozinho Trinta was born in São Luís-MA. Brazilian carnival animator (Samba)
1934 - Robert Towne was born. American writer, director, producer, and actor
1934 - An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, which lay well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
1935 - Vladislav Volkov was born. Soviet cosmonaut
1936 - The first edition of Life is published.
1937 - Jagdish Chandra Bose dies (b. 1858). Indian physicist.
1941 - P. C. Wren dies. British writer.
1941 - Franco Nero was born. Italian actor
1943 - Andrew Goodman was born (d. 1964). American civil rights activist.
1943 - Sue Nicholls was born (The Honourable Susan Frances Harmer Nicholls), British actress
1943 - 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.
1944 - Joe Eszterhas was born. Hungarian-born film producer and writer
1944 - James Toback was born. American writer and director
1945 - Steve Landesberg was born. American actor.
1946 - At least 6,000 Vietnamese civilians were killed in a French naval bombardment of the port city of Haiphong.
1952 - José Águas , portuguese football player, debuts representing Portugal in a 1-1 draw with Austria
1953 - Francis Cabrel was born. French singer
1954 - Bruce Hornsby was born. American musician
1954 - For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the peak it reached just before the 1929 crash.
1954 - Elizabeth Savalla was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actress.
1955 - The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia.
1955 - Steven Brust was born. American author
1955 - Ludovico Einaudi was born. Italian composer and pianist
1956 - Steve Harvey was born. American actor and comedian.
1956 - André de Biase was born in Vitória- ES. Brazilian actor.
1958 - Have Gun, Will Travel debuts on radio.
1959 - General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for a "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals."
1959 - Maxwell Caulfield was born. British actor
1959 - Dominique Dunne was born (d. 1982). American actress
1960 - The long-running serial, Ma Perkins, airs its last episode on CBS radio.
1963 - The first episode of the science fiction television series Doctor Who debuts on the BBC.
1966 - Vincent Cassel was born. French actor.
1966 - Sean O'Kelly dies (b. 1882). President of Ireland.
1968 - Hamid Hassani was born. Iranian lexicographer
1970 - Zoë Ball was born. British television and radio presenter
1971 - The People's Republic of China is given Taiwan's seat on the United Nations Security Council. (See China and the United Nations)
1973 - Sessue Hayakawa dies (b. 1889). Japanese actor.
1974 - Jamie Sharper was born. American football player
1974 - Cornelius Ryan dies (b. 1920). Irish-born author.
1976 - André Malraux dies. French writer.
1976 - Carmel Said was born. Maltese playboy and bon vivant also known as Id-DruGo
1977 - Myriam Boileau was born. Canadian diver
1979 - In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
1979 - Merle Oberon dies (b. 1911). British actress (Wuthering Heights - 1939).
1979 - Judee Sill dies (b. 1944). American musician and songwriter.
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 throws 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 American college football history.
1985 - Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the hijacked jetliner, but 60 people die in the raid.
1990 - Punk rock band Bad Religion release their seventh album, Against the Grain in the United States
1990 - Roald Dahl dies in Llandaff, Cardiff, South Wales (b. 1916). British author whose children's books include "James and the Giant Peach" (1961) and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (1964).
1990 - Caio Prado Júnior dies (b. 1907). Brazilian writer, publisher and politician.
1990 - John Major became British prime minister.
1991 - Klaus Kinski dies (b. 1926). German actor.
1991 - Queen frontman Freddie Mercury publicly announces that he has AIDS. He dies the next day.
1991 - Martin Lopez-Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:56.57)
1992 - Jordan Fry was born. American actor.
1992 - Roy Acuff dies (b. 1903). American musician
1992 - Jean-François Thiriart dies (b. 1922). Belgian politician.
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.
1995 - Louis Malle dies (b. 1932). French director
1995 - Junior Walker dies (b. 1931). American musician.
1996 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes after running out of fuel off the coast of Comoros into the Indian Ocean, killing 127.
1996 - The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Angola.
2002 - Roberto Matta dies (b. 1911). Chilean painter.
2003 - Beleaguered Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
2003 - Berkeley Breathed begins the comic strip Opus.
2003 - Paulo Antunes, Campeão Nacional em título de Triatlo, obtém a medalha de bronze nos I Campeonatos Ibero -Americanos de Triatlo, disputados em Valparaiso, Chile.
2004 - Alex Ferguson managed Manchester United for the 1000th time in a Champions League match against Lyon.
2004 - Pete Franklin dies (b. 1928). American talk radio host.
R.C. Saints - Pope Clement I, Saint Columban
Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Qawl (Speech) - First day of the 14th month of the Bahá'í Calendar
Japan - Kinro kansha no hi (Labour Thanksgiving Day)