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Events, deaths, births, of 23 NOV [For 23 Nov Julian go to Gregorian date: 1582~1699: Dec 03 1700s: Dec 04 1800s: Dec 05 1900~2099: Dec 06] |
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2003 Total eclipse of the sun of 1m57s, visible in Antarctica. 2001 At the conclusion of a 2-week session, the UN Committee against Torture, citing numerous allegations that Israeli law enforcement officials torture or mistreat Palestinian detainees, urges Israel the country to prevent abuses. It also urges Israel to review its laws and policies to ensure that all detainees were brought promptly before a judge and ensured prompt access to lawyers to ensure against mistreatment while they were held incommunicado, or in administrative detention which can last years. The committee also examined the records of Indonesia, Ukraine, Benin and Zambia. 2000 In a setback for Al Gore, the Florida Supreme Court refused to order Miami-Dade county officials to resume hand-counting election-day ballots. Meanwhile, Gore's lawyers argued in a brief filed with the US Supreme Court that the high court should stay out of the Florida election controversy. 2000 El Gobierno de Grecia recibe del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos de Estrasburgo un fallo condenatorio por la confiscación de las propiedades de la familia real, exiliada del país desde 1967. 2000 Más de 900.000 manifestantes recorren las calles de Barcelona para protestar por el asesinato del ex ministro Ernest Lluch y reclamar a los gobiernos, central y vasco, la apertura de un nuevo frente de diálogo para buscar la paz. 1998 At its antitrust trial on this day in 1998, Microsoft argued that a proposed merger between America Online and Netscape should be taken as proof that no single company could control technological development. The following day, Microsoft would ask a federal judge to dismiss the case on the basis of the merger, which was formally announced on November 24. Microsoft's request was refused. |
1997 Se celebran las segundas elecciones presidenciales en Eslovenia desde su independencia. El presidente Milan Kucan, un ex comunista que se presenta como independiente, consigue el 62% de los votos. 1997 Yamaichi Securities, la cuarta agencia de valores y bolsa de Japón, suspende sus operaciones, en lo que se considera la mayor quiebra sufrida por una agencia de valores nipona desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial . 1997 Winnie Mandela, la que fuera esposa del líder del CNA en Sudáfrica, declara ante la Comisión de la Verdad y la Reconciliación acusada de ocho asesinatos. 1996 It is discovered that 2^1'398'269 1 is a Mersenne prime (the 35th) (Mersenne prime numbers are primes of the form 2^n 1, which requires n to be prime; and it is equivalent to [2^(n1)]×(2^n 1) being equal to the sum of its factors other than itself, i.e. a perfect number). They can all be found (with their date of discovery) at http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/math/prime/mersenne.html. 1996 A hijacker forced an Ethiopian 767 jetliner to fly until it ran out of fuel. The aircraft crashed into the sea. |
1995 El académico de la Historia Gonzalo Anes y Alvarez de Castrillón obtiene el Premio Nacional español de Historia por su obra El siglo de las luces. 1993 US President Clinton signed legislation repealing US sanctions against South Africa. 1992 The US lowers its flag over the last American base in the Philippines, ending nearly a century of military presence in its former colony. 1991 Serbian, Croatian and Yugoslav leaders signed a UN-mediated ceasefire accord, the 14th of the Balkan civil war. It didn't last. 1988 Miklós Németh sucede a Károly Grósz al frente del Gobierno húngaro. 1988 South Africa: Botha reprieves Sharpeville Six
1984 El poeta catalán Josep Vicenç Foix obtiene el Primer Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas. 1983 La URSS interrumpe oficialmente las negociaciones con EE.UU. sobre reducción de armamento estratégico de alcance medio.
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1981 El escritor mexicano Octavio Paz
Lozano obtiene el premio Cervantes de Literatura. 1981 Francia, Reino Unido, Italia y los Países Bajos anuncian que están dispuestos a enviar "cascos azules" al Sinaí.
1972 El presidente boliviano Hugo Banzer Suárez declara el estado de emergencia en el país, ante la huelga general obrera. 1972 Dimite el Gobierno belga, presidido por Gaston Eyskens, por divergencia de criterios en las discusiones sobre los idiomas del país.
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1970 Pope Paul VI issued a decree barring cardinals over the
age of 80 from voting for a new pope. 1969 The first space-to-ground news conference is telecast. Reporters in Houston submit written questions to a lieutenant at the Houston NASA base, who read them to astronauts aboard Apollo 12. The space capsule returns to Earth the next day. 1966 Liu Shaoqi, presidente de la República Popular China, es acusado por los guardias rojos.
1954 China announced it had convicted 11 American airmen and two civilians of espionage. 1954 El primer ministro británico Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill declara que hacia el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial había intentado armar soldados alemanes para que luchasen contra la Unión Soviética. (???) 1953 North Korea signs 10-year aid pact with Peking. 1947 E. L. Sukenik of Jerusalem's Hebrew University first received word of the existence of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The documents, dating between 200 BC and AD 70, had been accidentally discovered the previous winter (1946_47) by two Bedouin shepherds in the vicinity of Qumran. 1947 Robert Schuman forma en París un Gobierno social-republicano-popular. 1945 World War II rationing of meat and butter ends in the US, leaving sugar the only rationed food.. 1943 US Marines seize control of Tarawa and Makin (Gilbert Islands) from Japanese, following a fierce 76-hour battle. Terror and Survival at Tarawa 1941 US troops move into Dutch Guiana to guard the bauxite mines. Tropas estadounidenses ocupan la Guayana holandesa para proteger las minas de bauxita. 1940 Bélgica (??? ocupada por Alemania !!! gobierno en exilio???) declara la guerra a Italia en el transcurso de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. (???) 1940 Se aprueba en España la Ley de Organización Sindical, en la que se explica que el país está concebido como "un gigantesco sindicato de productores, donde la sindicación viene a ser la forma política de la economía entera". Ese aspecto totalitario en lo económico está bajo el mando de la Delegación Nacional de Sindicatos de FET (Falange Española de Trabajadores) y de la JONS (Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalistas). 1936 The United States abandons its embassy in Madrid, as Spain's civil war rages. 1934 The United States and Great Britain agree on a 5-5-3 naval ratio, with both countries allowed to build five million tons of naval ships while Japan can only build three. Japan will denounce the treaty. 1934 Des inspecteurs italiens sont agressés aux confins de leur colonie de Somalia et de l'empire d'Ethiopie. C'est le prétexte d'une plainte de l'Italie auprès de la Société des Nations. Un an et demi plus tard, Mussolini lance son armée à la conquête de l'Ethiopie. 1933 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt recalls the American ambassador from Havana, Cuba, and urges stability in the island nation. 1924 Depuis la veille, les cendres de Jean Jaurès ont été ramenées d'Albi. Paris se presse sur le parcours pour voir passer le catafalque. Au début de l'après-midi se forme un long cortège, beaucoup sont présent, on compte plusieurs délégations françaises et étrangères de la Ligue des droits de l'homme et du Grand Orient de France. Le cercueil est porté par vingt-quatre mineurs venus de Carmaux. La procession remonte la rue Soufflot vers le Panthéon, où attendent le président de la République, le président du Conseil et le gouvernement au grand complet. Si le Cartel des gauches peut prouver par cette manifestation son unité, la droite qualifie quant à elle ce transfert de " saturnales révolutionnaires ". 1921 President Warren G. Harding signs the Willis Campell Act, better known as the anti-beer bill. It forbids physicians to prescribe beer or liquor for medicinal purposes. 1920 La CNT (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo) es declarada ilegal en España. 1916 Alexander Trepov reemplaza al protegido de Rasputín, Boris Sturmer, como presidente del Consejo de Ministros ruso. 1909 The Wright brothers form a million-dollar corporation for the commercial manufacture of their airplanes. 1904 Russo-German talks break down because Russia insists on consulting France. |
1890 The independent Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was separated from the Netherlands.
1863 Major General George Thomas's Union forces drive the Confederates out of Orchard Knob, Tennessee 1863 Siege of Knoxville, Tennessee continues 1863 The Battle of Chattanooga, one of the most decisive battles of the American Civil War, begins (in Tennessee). 1860 As the "Banking Panic" of 1857 continues, the New York Clearing House makes its first loan, issuing $7.375 million worth of certificates to the nation's ailing banks 1852 Le Moniteur anuncia la elección de Napoleón III como emperador de Francia, "por la gracia de Dios y la voluntad nacional". 1852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30' (9m) 1832 French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium 1785 John Hancock is elected president of the Continental Congress for the second time. 1765 People of Frederick County MD refuse to pay England's Stamp tax
1248 The city of Seville surrenders to Ferdinand III of Castile after a two-year siege. Conquista de Sevilla por el rey Fernando III el Santo, Rey de Castilla y de León. 1165 The Normans conduct Pope Alexander III back to Rome. http://gallica.bnf.fr/Fonds_Textes/T0101478.htm |
Deaths which
occurred on a November 23: 2001 The 2 brothers Ahmad and Mahmoun Rashid Hashaika, and Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, 34, by 6 Israeli missiles and machine-gin fire from helicopters at two cars next to the village of Kfar Farah, close to the West Bank city of Nablus. The first two are Hamas activists from the village of Tallouza near Nablus. The third man is on Israel's most-wanted list as head of Izzedine al Qassam, Hamas' military wing .Ahmad is his deputy. Israel has tried to capture Abu Hanoud in the past. In August 2000, three Israeli undercover troops were killed by friendly fire in a botched attempt to arrest Abu Hanoud in his home village of Assira al-Shamaliya near Nablus. Abu Hanoud fled and was taken into custody by the Palestinian Authority. In May 2001, he was injured when Israeli warplanes retaliating for a suicide attack at a shopping mall in Israel bombed the Nablus prison where he was being held. Israel said he was released after the air strike. 2001 Mohammed Salam Samani, 21, and Mohammed Ibrahim Samani, 21, Fatah activists, close to the village of Beit Iba, in an area under Israeli security control in the West Bank, as the explosive device they are building explodes. 2001 Wael Radwan, 15, Palestinian shot by Israeli soldiers near Khan Younis refugee camp, Gaza Strip, when, during a protest against the death of five children the previous day, he was throwing stones toward the soldiers guarding an enclave settlement.
2000 Samer Hussein, 19, from the Druze village of Hurfeish, Israeli army sergeant, killed by Palestinian snipers while on patrol near the Erez checkpoint. Mourners urged Barak to end the violence. Unfortunately both sides only think of revenge, so that the violence keeps escalating.
1990 Roald Dahl, 74, British short story writer 1985: 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijacked Egyptair jet in Malta 1980: 4800 die in series of earthquakes that devastate southern Italy 1976 André Malraux, 75, France, novelist/art historian/puplic office. ("The Voices of Silence") 1976 All 50 aboard an Olympic Airways YS-11A two engine plane on a domestic flight from Athens to Kozani, which crashes and burns some 400 km north of Athens.
1938 Erik Theodor Werenskiold, Norwegian artist born on 11 February 1855. 1924 Henry Ryland, British artist born in 1856. 1914 Elbrige Gerry, 70, VP (of Gerrymander fame) 1898 Giovanni Battista Quadrone, Italian artist born on 05 January 1844. 1896 Fritz Zuber Buhler, Swiss artist born in 1822. 1863 Jerrard, mathematician. 1859 James Ward, British Romantic painter, born on 23 October 1769, specialized in animals. LINKS Miranda and Caliban Sheep 1818 Jean Baptiste Claude Robin, French artist born on 24 July 1734. 1817 Glenie, mathematician. 1693 Job Berckheyde, Dutch painter born on 27 January 1630. . LINKS The Baker Interior of the St Bavo Church at Haarlem 1682 Claude Gellée Le Lorrain, French painter born in 1600, one of the great masters of ideal-landscape painting (often containing classical ruins and figures) MORE ON LE LORRAIN AT ART 4 NOVEMBER LINKS Seascape with Aeneas on Delos View of Tivoli at Sunset Landscape with Cowherd (or Evening) 129 prints at Fine Arts Museums of SF 1604 Barocius, mathematician
1893 Piotr Ilich Tchaikowski, compositor ruso. 1976 André Malraux, escritor, historiador y político francés. |
Births which occurred on
a November 23: 1980 Tracy Latimer, in Saskatchewan. The hospital's fetal heart monitor is broken. The monitor tells doctors if the baby is in distress. Tracy's oxygen supply is cut off at birth. Cerebral palsy is caused by a lack of oxygen to the brain at birth. Brain cells die, interrupting motor commands to muscles and causing limbs to spasm. On 23 October 1993, her father, Robert Latimer, not bearing to see her suffer from her severe cerebral palsy, kills her by piping the exhaust fumes into the pickup truck where he has placed her.
1946 El señor presidente de Miguel Ángel Asturias se publica. 1943 Andrew Goodman civil rights worker, murdered in 1964 1942 Poesías de Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa [13 June 1888 30 November 1935] se publica. 1937 Of Mice and Men de John Steinbeck se publica en Nueva York. 1936 Life magazine, 1st issue, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce 1925 José Napoleón Duarte, San Salvador, President of El Salvador (1984-89), He died on 23 February 1990. 1922 Manuel Fraga Iribarne, profesor y político español. 1920 Paul Celan Romanian poet (Collected Prose) 1913 Maurice Zolotow (author: Billy Wilder in Hollywood) 1890 El Lissitzky, artista ruso. 1889 (1899?) The first jukebox made its debut in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon. [1899 1st jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco)?] 1883 José Clemente Orozco, Mexican Social Realist muralist who died in 1949. MORE ON OROZCO AT ART 4 NOVEMBER LINKS Los Muertos Paisaje de Picos American Civilization - The Gods of the Modern World: detail, post-Cortes section (1932, fresco) Prometheus Zapata Cactus 1878 Ernest King, commander-in-chief of the US fleet, he designed the United States' winning strategy in World War II. 1876 Manuel de Falla, Cadiz, Spain, composer (El Amor Brujo)
1861 (05 Dec Julian) Constantin Alexeievitch Korovin, Russian painter who died on 11 September 1939. Portrait of Korovin by Serov (07 Jan 1865 22 Nov 1911) MORE ON KOROVIN AT ART 4 NOVEMBER LINKS the Actress Titiana Liubatovich Northern Idyll the Opera Singer Fiodor Shaliapin Pier in Gurzuf In Front of the Balcony: Leonora and Ampara 1860 Karl Branting Sweden, statesman/diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921) 1859 Henry McCarty. Bonney, probable original name of the infamous Western outlaw who would call himself William H. Bonney and be known as "Billy the Kid". He would reputedly kill 27 persons in the US West before being shot dead on the night of 14 July 1881 by Sheriff Pat Garrett. 1853 Halsted, mathematician. 1837 Javan der Waals Holland, physicist (Cont of Liquid & Gaseous States) 1834 James Thomson, Scottish poet. 1820 Isaac Todhunter, mathematician
1798 Franz Théobald Horny, German artist who died in June 1824. 1760 François Noël Babeuf, à Saint-Quentin. Il changea son prénom en Gracchus et s'attira la célébrité en s'opposant à Robespierre. Sa Conspiration des Egaux lui valut d'être guillotiné en 1797 par le gouvernement du Directoire. Karl Marx en a fait l'ancêtre du communisme. 1745 Jean François Sablet le Romain, Swiss artist who died on 24 February 1819. 1654 Jan van Kessel II, Flemish artist who died in 1708. 1616 John Wallis, mathematician. 1608 Francisco Manuel de Melo, escritor hispanoportugués. 1553 Prospero Alpini Italy, botanist/physician (De Medocoma Aegyptorum) 1221 Alfonso X (the Wise) king of Castile and León (1252) Alfonso X el Sabio, rey de Castilla y León, nace en Toledo como el infante Alfonso, primogénito del monarca castellano Fernando III y de la reina Beatriz. 0912 Otto I (the Great) German king, Holy Roman emperor (962-73) |