November 23

Sunday 23, 2003:

Berkeley Breathed begins the comic strip Opus.

Saturday 23, 1996:

The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Angola.

Tuesday 23, 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.

Saturday 23, 1991:

Queen frontman Freddie Mercury publicly announces that he has AIDS. Freddie dies peacefully the next day.

Friday 23, 1990:

Punk rock band Bad Religion releases their seventh album, Against the Grain in the United States

Saturday 23, 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.

Friday 23, 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.

Monday 23, 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.

Sunday 23, 1980:

A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people.

Friday 23, 1979:

In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.

Tuesday 23, 1971:

The People's Republic of China is given the Taiwan's seat on the United Nations Security Council. (See China and the United Nations)

Saturday 23, 1963:

The first episode of the science fiction television series Doctor Who debuts on the BBC.

Wednesday 23, 1960:

The long-running serial, Ma Perkins, airs its last episode on CBS radio.

Sunday 23, 1958:

Have Gun, Will Travel debuts on radio.

Wednesday 23, 1955:

The Cocos Islands are transferred from United Kingdom to Australian control.

Tuesday 23, 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.

Monday 23, 1936:

The first edition of Life is published.

Monday 23, 1903:

Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.

Sunday 23, 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.

Thursday 23, 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.

Tuesday 23, 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.

Monday 23, 1863:

Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee and counter-attack Confederate troops.

Wednesday 23, 1644:

Areopagitica by John Milton is published.

Thursday 23, 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.

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