It happened on this day, November 23
Events:
1824 – Victory of the Egyptian fleet over the Greek fleet during the “Battle of Stampala”.
1890 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir to succeed him, necessitating the passing of special legislation to succeed his daughter Wilhamina.
1940 – The Kingdom of Romania signs an alliance agreement with Nazi Germany, Italy and Japan within what were known as the Axis powers during World War II.
1964 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Saudi King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz sign an agreement in the city of Jeddah regarding the war in Yemen.
1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a secret executive order requiring the CIA to support, train, and finance “Contra revolutionaries” in Nicaragua, which would later be revealed and known as the “Iran-Contra Affair.”
1989 – The Berlin Wall is completely demolished.
1991 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali is elected Secretary-General of the United Nations, succeeding Javier Pérez de Cuellar, and officially takes office on January 1, 1992.
2001 – Assassination of Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, one of the leaders of Al-Qassam, the military wing of the Hamas movement, in Nablus, Palestine.
2003 – Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze is forced to resign from office after widespread popular protests following the results of the election known as the “Rose Revolution”.
2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia, becoming the first woman to serve as president in all of Africa.
2007 – Postponement of the electoral session to elect the president of Lebanon until November 30 for further consultations, even if this day is the last of the mandate of President Emile Lahoud.
🌟 Lebanese President Emile Lahoud decides to entrust security to the army in the country due to the failure of the election of a new president of the republic and the occurrence of a presidential vacuum, and the government rejects this decision.
2008 – The Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization elects the Authority's chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, as president of the State of Palestine, and the Hamas movement rejects this decision.
2010 – North Korea fires more than 200 artillery shells at a South Korean island and the South Korean military opens fire in self-defense.
2011 – Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh signs the Gulf initiative to resolve the Yemeni crisis, forcing him to leave power.
2014 – Tunisian presidential elections are held in the country for the first time after the new constitution and the second time after the revolution.
🌟 Norwegian Magnus Carlsen wins the 2014 World Chess Championship for the second time in its history, defeating former Indian world champion Vishvanathan Anand.
🌟 Briton Lewis Hamilton wins the 2014 Formula 1 World Championship for the second time in its history.
2015 – Opposition Mauricio Macri is elected president of Argentina, succeeding Cristina Kirchner.
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Births:
912 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.
1221 – Alfonso X, king of the kingdom of Castile.
1616 – John Wallis, English mathematician.
1883 – José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter.
1890 – L. Lissitzky, Russian architect.
1897 – Karl Gebhart, a German Nazi doctor who became famous for his horrific medical experiments on concentration center prisoners.
1926 – Satya Sai Baba, Indian religious leader and philosopher.
1933 – Ali Shariati, Iranian thinker.
1941 – Mamdouh Adwan, Syrian writer and poet.
1944 – Nassib Lahoud, Lebanese politician.
1946 – Daoud Abdel Sayed, Egyptian director.
1949 – Hayat Kandil, Egyptian actress.
1962 – Arif Al-Taweel, Syrian actor and director.
1969 – Muhammad Al-Adwani, Kuwaiti footballer.
1971 – Khaled Massad, Saudi footballer.
1977 – Mashael Al-Zenkawi, Kuwaiti presenter and actress.
1979 – Nihat Kahveci, Turkish footballer.
1983 – Nasser Al-Shamrani, Saudi footballer.
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Death:
1572 – Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet.
1616 – Richard Haklot, English geographer.
1957 – Elia Abu Madi, one of the diaspora poets of Lebanese origin.
1978 – Hajj Mohamed El Anka, Algerian singer.
1999 – Lutfi Zaini, Saudi poet, actor and sculptor.
2004 – Mervat Badawi, Egyptian economist.
2013 – Muhammad Ahmed Al-Rasheed, Saudi minister.
2020 – Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallah, seventh president of the Republic of Mauritania.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Thanksgiving celebration in Japan.
⏪ St. George's Day in Georgia.
