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. 
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| 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.
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| 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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