Anders Celsius, the Swedish astronomer and inventor of the Celsius temperature scale, is born.
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New York City politician William Magear "Boss" Tweed, is handed over to N.Y. City authorities, after being captured in Spain where he had escaped to after being unable to make bail.
Tweed had been the leader of a corrupt political organization which had systematically plundered New York City of sums estimated at between $30 million and $200 million (equivalent to $5 billion in 2023). Tweed dominated the Democratic Party in both the city and the state and had his candidates elected mayor of New York City, governor, and speaker of the state assembly. After his recapture he was returned to custody. He died in the Ludlow Street Jail in 1878. More
The fifth Imperial conference, hosted by King-Emperor George V in London, concludes on November 23, 1926. The Imperial Conference brought together the prime ministers of the Dominions of the British Empire and declared the Dominions as equal, autonomous communities within the British Empire, officially adopting the term "Commonwealth" to describe the community.
The conclusions arrived at the conference laid the foundation for the Statute of Westminster in 1931, which legislated the principles of dominion autonomy and granted legislative independence. No centralized constitution: Rejected the idea of a single, codified imperial constitution in favor of a more flexible arrangement.
The Haiphong Incident occurred on November 23, 1946, when The French Cruiser, Suffren and several smaller ships bombard the Vietnamese coastal city of Haiphong, killing between 2,000 and 6,000 Vietnamese people.
The incident, also known as the Haiphong Massacre is thought of as the first armed clash in a series of events that would lead to the Battle of Hanoi on December 19, 1946, and the official outbreak of the First Indochina War. More
EgyptAir Flight 648, a Boeing 737-266 in route to Cairo from Athens on November 23, 1985, was hijacked by the Abu Nidal Organization and forced to land in Malta.
After negotiations failed, Egyptian commandos stormed the aircraft. The hijackers fought back with grenades, and the resulting raid killed 56 of the 86 people on board, and two of the three hijackers,