November 23 holidays, events
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 World Watercolor Day.
🌏 International Day to End Impunity.
🌏 Fibonacci Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
USA – National Family Health History Day.
Slovenia – Rudolf Meister Day.
Lithuania – Armed Forces Day.
Kazakhstan – Traffic Police Day.
Micronesia – President’s Day.
Japan – Labor Day.
Georgia – St. George’s Day.
USA, Puerto Rico, Palau, Guam – Thanksgiving Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1174 – Muslim army led by Saladin Ayyubi captured the city of Damascus.
– 1248 – The troops of King Ferdinand III of Castile captured the city of Seville, which was under Muslim control.
– 1510 – The Ottoman Empire captured the capital of the Kingdom of Imereti, Kutaisi.
– 1793 – The Paris Commune banned the activities of churches.
– 1831 – The Rumyantsev Museum was opened in St. Petersburg.
– 1852 – The first mailboxes appeared in England.
– 1904 – The III Olympic Games ended in St. Louis, USA.
– 1910 – The last death penalty in the history of Sweden was carried out.
– 1918 – Edwin Hubble discovered the Andromeda galaxy.
– 1924 – The first continuous radio broadcasts were launched in the USSR.
– 1940 – World War II: Romania joined the fascist bloc.
– 1943 – Cairo Conference begins.
– 1946 – First Indochina War begins: French air force bombs Hai Phong, Vietnam, killing thousands of civilians.
– 1955 – Cocos Islands passes from Great Britain to Australia.
– 1957 – Boris Pasternak’s novel “Doctor Zhivago” is published in Milan.
– 1980 – A 6.9 magnitude earthquake in Irpinia, southern Italy, kills 4,800 people.
– 1981 – Altynsay District is established.
– 1985 – A passenger plane flying from Athens to Cairo is hijacked by gunmen, killing 60 people.
– 1991 – The “Vatanparvar” organization was established.
– 1992 – The first smartphone, IBM Simon, was demonstrated in Las Vegas.
– 1993 – The Museum of the History of Public Education of Uzbekistan was opened at the Republican Teachers’ House in Tashkent.
– 1996 – A plane bound for Ethiopia was hijacked, killing 125 passengers and sinking into the Indian Ocean.
– 2003 – Rose Revolution: Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze resigned.
– 2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, elected president of Liberia, became the first female leader in Africa.
– 2006 – A bombing in Sadr City, Iraq, killed 215 people and injured 257.
-2007 – The cruise ship MS Explorer struck an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands, Argentina, sinking with 154 passengers.
– 2011 – Arab Spring: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh resigns.
