Major Events
- 1248 Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile after the city capitulates
- 1644 "Areopagitica", a pamphlet by John Milton decrying censorship, is published
- 1869 The clipper Cutty Sark is launched In Dumbarton, Scotland, one of the last clippers ever built and the only one still surviving
- 2018 US Federal Climate report estimates climate change will reduce economy by 10% by 2100 with $141 billion cost from heat-related deaths, $118 billion from sea level rise
- 2019 Sumatran rhino officially declared extinct in Malaysia after last known specimen, 25-year-old Iman, dies of cancer in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
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Nov 23 in Film & TV
- 1923 Cecil B. DeMille's first version of "The Ten Commandments" premieres in the USA
Nov 23 in Music
- 1993 "Doggystyle" debut album by Snoop Doggy Dogg is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1994)
Nov 23 in Sport
- 1892 Pierre de Coubertin launches plan for modern Olympic Games at the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques AGM
Did You Know?
Louis Ducos du Hauron patents a process of making color photographs, in Paris, France
Theodore Dwight Weld
Franklin Pierce
Johannes van der Waals
Billy the Kid
Alexander Patch
Nicolás Maduro
Boris Karloff
Krzysztof Penderecki
Miley Cyrus
Lew Hoad
Shane Gould
Fun Fact About November 23
Chinese steward Poon Lim begins 133 days adrift after British ship SS Benlomond is torpedoed by a German U-boat, leaving him as the sole survivor
Famous Weddings
- 1929 Academy Award-winning Shirley Booth marries comic actor Ed Gardner
- 1940 Film director David Lean (32) weds actress Kay Walsh (29)
- 1940 RAF pilot Guy Gibson (22) weds show dancer and actress Eve Moore in Penarth’s Anglican Church
More November 23 Weddings
Hack Wilson
André Malraux
Roald Dahl
Betty Comden
Larry Hagman
David DinkinsArticles, Photos and Quiz
Conquest of Seville
The Qaid of Seville Axataf gives the keys of Seville to Ferdinand III of Castile, painting by Francisco Pacheco
November 23, 1248
Killing Rampage of Billy The Kid
Billy the Kid, believed to have been born on this day, claimed to have shot dead 21 men. But that didn’t stop Hollywood turning the killer into a folk hero.
November 23, 1859
