Today in history, Nov 23rd!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 23rd!

1785	John Hancock is elected president of the Continental Congress for the second time.
1804	Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States, was born in Hillsboro, N.H.
1863	Union forces win the Battle of Orchard Knob, Tennessee.
1889	The jukebox made its debut, at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
1903	Italian tenor Enrico Caruso makes his American debut in a Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi’s Rigoletto.
1904	Russo-German talks break down because of Russia’s insistence to consult France.
1909	The Wright brothers form a million-dollar corporation for the commercial manufacture of their airplanes.
1921	President Warren G. Harding signs the Willis Campbell Act, better known as the anti-beer bill. It forbids doctors to prescribe beer or liquor for medicinal purposes.
1933	President Franklin D. Roosevelt recalls the American ambassador from Havana, Cuba, and urges stability in the island nation.
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.
1936	The United States abandons the American embassy in Madrid, Spain, which is engulfed by civil war.
1941	U.S. troops move into Dutch Guiana to guard the bauxite mines.
1942	The film Casablanca premieres in New York City.
1943	U.S. Marines declare the island of Tarawa secure.
1945	Wartime meat and butter rationing ends in the United States.
1953	North Korea signs 10-year aid pact with Peking.
1954	The Dow Jones industrial average finally surpassed it’s pre-crash high – 25 years after Black Tuesday – when it closed at 382.74.
1968	Four men hijack an American plane, with 87 passengers, from Miami to Cuba.
1971	The People’s Republic of China was seated in the U.N. Security Council.
1980	In Europe’s biggest earthquake since 1915, 3,000 people are killed in Italy.
2001	An Israeli helicopter fired two missiles at a van in the West Bank, killing Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, a leading member of the Islamic militant Hamas group.
2006	Former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko died in London from radiation poisoning after making a deathbed statement blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin.
2011	Yemen’s authoritarian President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to step down amid a fierce uprising to oust him after 33 years in power.

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

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