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Events

• 1863 (163 years ago) American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and counter-attack Confederate troops.
• 1934 (92 years ago) An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
• 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: The Lotta Svärd Movement is disbanded under the terms of the armistice treaty in Finland after the Continuation War.
• 1971 (55 years ago) Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
• 1985 (41 years ago) Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.
• 2003 (23 years ago) Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
• 2004 (22 years ago) The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.
• 2007 (19 years ago) MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.

Births

• 912 (1114 years ago) Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 973)
• 1190 (836 years ago) Pope Clement IV,
• 1221 (805 years ago) Alfonso X of Castile,
• 1804 (222 years ago) Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (died 1869)
• 1837 (189 years ago) Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1923)
• 1926 (100 years ago) Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher (died 2011)
• 1962 (64 years ago) Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan union leader and politician, President of Venezuela
• 1992 (34 years ago) Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress

Deaths

• 1572 (454 years ago) Bronzino, Italian painter and poet (born 1503)
• 1814 (212 years ago) Elbridge Gerry, American merchant and politician, 5th Vice President of the United States (born 1744)
• 1937 (89 years ago) Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (born 1858)
• 1976 (50 years ago) André Malraux, French theorist and author (born 1901)
• 1990 (36 years ago) Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet, and screenwriter (born 1916)
• 1991 (35 years ago) Klaus Kinski, German-American actor and director (born 1926)
• 2006 (20 years ago) Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy and defector (born 1962)
• 2012 (14 years ago) Larry Hagman, American actor, director, and producer (born 1931)

All 386 events, births and deaths of November 23