At present is Sunday, Nov. 23, the 327th day of 2025. There are 38 days left within the yr.
At present in historical past:
On Nov. 23,2005, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected president of Liberia, changing into Africa’s first democratically elected feminine head of state. She guided her nation by means of restoration after its exit from a decade-long civil conflict.
Additionally on this date:
In 1863, hundreds of Union troopers below Gen. Ulysses S. Grant marched out of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and battled Accomplice forces by means of Nov. 25, forcing their retreat into Georgia in a big blow to the South within the American Civil Conflict.
In 1939, early in World Conflict II, the British armed service provider cruiser HMS Rawalpindi was on patrol when it was shelled and sunk in an engagement with two German warships southeast of Iceland, leaving greater than 200 useless aboard the Rawalpindi and only some dozen survivors.
In 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed Nov. 25 a day of nationwide mourning following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
In 1971, the Folks’s Republic of China was seated within the United Nations Safety Council.
In 1980, an estimated 2,500 to three,000 individuals had been killed by a collection of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy.
In 1984, Boston School quarterback Doug Flutie accomplished one of the vital well-known passes in school soccer historical past, connecting with Gerald Phelan for a 48-yard landing with no time left on the clock as Boston School defeated the Miami Hurricanes 47-45.
In 1996, a hijacked Ethiopian Airways Boeing 767 ran out of gas and crashed into the Indian Ocean close to the Comoro Islands, killing 125 of the 175 individuals on board, together with all three hijackers.
In 2006, former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko (leet-vee-NYEN’-koh) died in London from radiation poisoning after making a deathbed assertion blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In 2008, the U.S. authorities unveiled a daring plan to rescue Citigroup, injecting a contemporary $20 billion into the troubled agency in addition to guaranteeing tons of of billions of {dollars} in dangerous property.
In 2011, Yemen’s authoritarian President Ali Abdullah Saleh (AH’-lee ahb-DUH’-luh sah-LEH’) agreed to step down amid a fierce rebellion to oust him after 33 years in energy. (After formally ceding energy in February 2012, he was killed in 2017 by Houthi rebels who had been as soon as his allies.)
In 2024, Israeli airstrikes in central Beirut killed at the least 20 individuals and wounded dozens extra, the most recent strikes in renewed preventing between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah militants. (A U.S.-brokered cease-fire could be reached on Nov. 27, with sporadic violations of that truce for months afterward.)
At present’s Birthdays:
- Actor Franco Nero (“Django”) is 84.
- Singer Bruce Hornsby is 71.
- TV journalist Robin Roberts (“Good Morning America”) is 65.
- Composer Nicolas Bacri is 64.
- Poet and writer Jennifer Michael Hecht is 60.
- Olympic gold medal sprinter Asafa Powell is 43.
- Ice hockey participant Nicklas Bäckström is 38.
- Singer-actor Miley Cyrus is 33.