Today In History - November 23

912 Otto I (Holy Roman Emperor)
1221 Alfonso X (King of Castile and Leon)
1553 Prospero Alpini
1608 Francisco M. de Melo
1616 John Wallis
1669 Johann K. Amman
1748 Etienne Joseph Floquet
1749 Edward Rutledge
1760 Gracchus Babeuf
1765 Thomas Attwood
1785 Joannes P. Roothaan
1804 Franklin Pierce
1809 Horatio Phillips Van Cleve
1815 William Dennison
1819 Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss
1820 John Willis Ellis
1821 Charles Meryon
1826 Agustin Bethencourt
1837 John van der Waals
1842 James Lillywhite, Jr.
1843 Josef Sucher
1858 Frank Hearne
1859 Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney)
1860 Karl Branting
1862 Alberto Williams
1862 Theo van Rysselberghe
1876 Manuel de Falla
1878 Andre Caplet
1878 Ernest J. King
1878 Holcombe Ward
1879 Andre Caplet
1883 Herman Baccaert
1883 Jose Clemente Orozco
1887 Boris Karloff (bornWilliam H. Pratt)
1887 Paul Malengreau
1888 Harpo Marx
1888 Nana Bryant
1893 Jimmy Blanckenberg
1894 Ture Persson
1896 Joris Vriamont
1896 Klement Gottwald
1896 Ruth Etting
1899 Norman Hunter
1901 Marieluise Fleiáer
1906 Mervyn Roberts
1909 Nigel Tranter
1910 Hal Schumacher
1911 Peter Saunders
1912 Det Glynn
1915 Ellen Drew
1915 John Dehner
1915 Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro
1917 George O'Hanlon
1917 Michael Gough
1919 Claudio Santoro
1919 Peter Strawson
1920 Chalmers P. Wylie
1920 Herman Nieland
1920 Paul Celan
1921 Hein J. Roethof
1923 Angelo John Novarese
1923 Guy Molinari
1923 Nadia Gray
1924 Colin Turnbull
1924 Paul Richards
1926 Christopher Logue
1926 Don Gordon
1928 Jakob Jez
1928 Jerry Bock
1930 Jack McKeon
1930 Robert Easton
1930 William E. Brock
1931 Yevgeni Grischin
1932 Michael Knight
1933 Hayes Jenkins
1933 Krzysztof Penderecki
1934 Michael Wayne
1934 Rita Rossi Colwell
1934 Robert Towne
1935 Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov
1938 Herbert Achternbusch
1938 Oscar Robertson
1939 Betty Everett
1939 Susan Anspach
1940 Gosta Pettersson
1940 Luis Tiant
1941 Alan Mullery
1943 Andrew Goodman
1944 Joe Eszterhas
1944 Jose Torikens
1945 Assaf Dayan
1945 Steve Landesberg
1946 Bobby L. Rush
1946 Diana Quick
1946 Hans Hoekman
1947 Geoffery Michael Roberts
1949 Gayl Jones
1950 Charles E. Schumer
1951 Bernd Landvoigt
1951 David Rappaport
1951 Jorg Landvoigt
1952 Francie Larrieu Smith
1953 Martin Kent
1954 Bruce Hornsby
1954 Ferry Hoogendijk
1954 Ken Schrom
1955 Mary Landrieu
1955 Steven Brust
1956 Bruce Edgar
1956 Michael S. Brainard
1956 Shane Gould
1957 John "Jellybean" Benitez
1958 David Wallace
1958 Martin Snedden
1959 Brook Jacoby
1959 Maxwell Caulfield
1960 Jayananda Warnaweera
1961 Merv Hughes
1962 Andrea Blackwell
1962 Gary Rusnak
1962 Mike Nocito
1963 Dale Sveum
1964 Boyd Kestner
1964 Dave Ellefson
1964 John Williams
1964 Jose Gonzales
1965 Michael Brainard
1965 Rodion Gataullin
1966 Charlie Grover,
1966 Jerry Kelly
1966 Jerry Patrick Kelly
1967 Brian Glynn
1967 Diane O'Grady
1967 Gary Kirsten
1967 Patrick Mameli
1967 Salli Richardson
1968 John O'Neill
1970 Glenn Murray
1971 Ashraf Amaya
1971 Jim Pyne
1971 Vin Baker
1972 Paul Penny
1973 Reggie Green
1974 Jamie Sharper
1974 Malik Rose
1974 Regina Fisher
1974 Saku Koivu
1974 Tora Suber
1974 Tyrus McCloud
1975 Arno Schreuders
1976 Adriana Cano Garcia
1978 Aliane Baquerot

1165 Pope Alexander III returns from his exile to Rome
1334 St. Clemens Flood: Dike breaks on the Dutch coast
1556 King Philip II confers with Dutch financial experts
1577 Water Geuzen under captain Slope enters Amsterdam
1584 The English parliament throws out the Jesuits
1700 Cardinal Francesco Albani is elected Pope Clemens XI
1744 English premier John Carteret resigns
1765 People of Frederick County, MD refuse to pay England's Stamp tax
1783 Annapolis, Maryland becomes the U.S. capital: until June 1784
1832 the French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium
1835 Henry Burden patents his Horseshoe manufacturing machine
1848 The Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston
1852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 FEET
1863 Battle of Chattanooga and Orchard Knob in Tennessee
1863 A patent is granted for a process of making color photographs
1864 Battle at Ball's Ferry, Georgia
1868 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents "trichrome" color photo process
1887 Notre Dame loses its first football game to Michigan
1889 Debut of first jukebox: in the Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco
1892 Battle of Lomani Congo
1892 P. de Coubertin launches a plan for the Modern Olympic Games
1897 Andrew J. Beard invents the "jerry coupler" to connect railroad cars
1897 Pencil sharpener is patented by J. L. Love
1899 Battle at Belmont
1903 Enrico Caruso has his U.S. debut at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York
1904 The 3rd Olympic games close in St. Louis
1905 Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physician, is named Minister of Haiti
1906 Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, is convicted of polygamy
1909 The Wright Brothers form million dollar corporation to manufacture airplanes
1921 President Harding signs Willis Campell Act: forbidding doctors from prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes
1923 Germany's Stresemann government falls to SPD
1931 National Crisis Committee forms in Hague
1936 Life magazine hits the newsstands
1937 Emile Janson becomes the Belgian Premier
1937 John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" premieres in New York City
1939 Nazi Government of Poland requires Jews to wear a blue star
1942 Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) is authorized
1942 The German 4th and 6th Armies are surrounded at Stalingrad
1942 Japan bombs Port Darwin, Australia
1943 British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation
1943 U.S. forces take control of Tarawa, Gilbert Island and Makin
1944 The U.S. 7th Army under General Patch conquers Straatsburg
1945 Most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, ends
1946 French Navy fire in Haiphong, Vietnam kills 6,000 people
1947 The French government of Schumann forms
1948 Dr. Frank G Back patents a lens to provide zoom effects
1960 Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted the NL Rookie of Year
1960 Tinseltown dedicated its "Walk of Fame" on Hollywood Blvd
1962 Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills is named the NL MVP
1963 The Horatio Alger Society founded
1963 John F. Kennedy's body lays in repose in East Room of White House
1963 Lyndon Baines Johnson proclaims November 25 a day of national mourning for John F. Kennedy
1964 Vatican abolished Latin as the official language of the Roman Catholic liturgy
1965 The U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 Chicago outfielder Tommie Agee is voted the AL Rookie of Year
1971 China People's Republic is seated in the United Nations Security Council
1974 60 Ethiopian government officials are executed
1975 Bob Thomas of Chicago Bears kicks a 55-yard field goal
1975 Sandra Haynie wins the LPGA Greater Ft. Myers Golf Classic
1976 The U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 The U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1977 "Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Longacre Theater in New York City
1977 European weather satellite Meteosat 1 is launched from Cape Canaveral
1979 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is released: sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks
1980 4,800 people die in a series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy
1980 The National Black Independent Party forms
1982 The FCC drops the limits on duration and frequency of TV ads
1983 The U.S.S.R. leaves the weapon disarmament talks
1984 The U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1985 58 people die as Egyptian commandos storm a hijacked Egyptair jet in Malta
1985 Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin is arrested for spying for China
1988 France performs a nuclear test
1988 Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal
1989 Pilots Union end the strike against Eastern Airlines
1989 Xenophobia Zolotas is sworn in as the Premier of Greece
1990 Model Cheryl Tiegs marries actor Tony Peck
1991 Evander Holyfield TKOs Bert Cooper in 7 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title
1992 The 10,000,000th cellular telephone is sold
1996 Irebe Skliva of Greece is crowned the 46th Miss World
1997 Annika Sorenstam wins the ITT LPGA Tour Championship