Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: November 23
November 23, 2024 is the 328th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 38 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Sagittarius is your zodiac sign. Topaz is your modern birthstone. Pearl is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: November 23
- 1510 –First campaign of Ottoman Empire against Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack its capital Kutaisi and burn Gelati Monastery.
- 1531 –The Second war of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
- 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 his heir.
- 1940 –World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
- 1946 –French Navy fire in Hai Phong, Viet Nam, kills 6,000 civilians.
- 1955 –The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia.
- 1981 –Iran-Contra Affair: 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.
- 1996 –Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
- 2006 –A series of bombing kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
- 2007 –MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.
Who were born on November 23?
- 1402 –Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)
- 1861 –Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
- 1896 –Venere Pizzinato, Italian supercentenarian (d. 2011)
- 1923 –R. L. Burnside, American musician (d. 2005)
- 1927 –Guy Davenport, American author and scholar (d. 2005)
- 1940 –Luis Tiant, Cuban baseball player
- 1946 –Giorgos Koudas, Greek footballer
- 1951 –David Rappaport, English actor (d. 1990)
- 1965 –J. T. the Brick, American sports talk radio host
- 1978 –Alison Mosshart, American musician
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