eso ha pasado un 23 Noviembre

1940 : Romania joined the Axis forces


On November 23, 1940, three days after Hungary, Romania joined the forces of the Axis: Germany, Italy and Japan. Romania had established a fascist regime, with anti-Jewish laws, in 1937.

1954 : The Dow Jones returns to the level it had before the crash of 29


On November 23, 1954, after 25 years, the New York Stock Exchange recovers the level it had before the 1929 crash.

1963 : Lyndon B. Johnson became president


On November 23, 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson became president of the United States in the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination.

1979 : Mountbatten's murderer convicted


On November 23, 1979, the IRA member Thomas McMahon, the murderer of Lord Mountbatten and of three other people, was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Mountbatten's fishing boat had exploded 3 month earlier, killing him and three family members including his 14-year-old grand-son. That same day the IRA had attacked British paratroopers in Northern Ireland, killing 18 of them.

1980 : Earthquake in southern Italy


On November 23, 1980, at 19:34, an earthquake of magnitude 6.89 on the Richter scale hit Eboli, south of Naples. 3000 people were killed and 300,000 others left homeless.

1985 : Hijacking of an airplane in Greece


On November 23, 1985, EgyptAir flight 648 was hijacked shortly after takeoff from Athens by terrorists from the Palestinian organization Abu Nidal. The plane was forced to land in Malta. Negotiations went wrong and the terrorists started killing passengers. 2 days later, the Egyptian forces stormed the aircraft. 56 passengers and two crew members were killed.

2001 : Signature of the Convention on Cybercrime


On November 23, 2001, members of the Council of Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan and South Africa signed the Convention on Cybercrime, in Budapest, Hungary. The Convention also raised the problem of balance between the pursuit of cybercriminals and respect for privacy.

2006 : Death of former Russian spy Litvinenko


On November 23, 2006, former KGB spy Litvinenko, Putin opponent claiming to have evidence implicating the Russian government in the assassination of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, died from polonium-210 poisoning in a London hospital.

Cita del día : 23 Noviembre

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Cumpleaños : 23 Noviembre

Pierre Charles Le Monnier, Astrónomo francés (1715)
Gracchus Babeuf, Revolucionario francés (1760)
Johannes van der Waals, Físico holandés, Premio Nobel (1837)
William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid), Fuera de la ley estadounidense (1859)
Hjalmar Branting, Político sueco, Premio Nobel de la Paz (1860)
Konstantin Korovin, Pintor ruso (1861)
Manuel de Falla, Compositor español (1876)
Boris Karloff, Actor inglés (1887)
Harpo Marx, Comediante estadounidense (1888)
Nelson S. Bond, Escritor estadounidense (1908)
Michael Gough, Actor inglés (1916)
José Napoleón Duarte, Político salvadoreño (1925)
Guy Davenport, Escritor estadounidense (1927)
Robert Towne, Guionista estadounidense (1934)
Franco Nero, Actor italiano (1941)
Jean-Pierre Foucault, Presentador de televisión francés (1947)
Chantal Nobel, Actriz francesa (1948)
Francis Cabrel, Cantante francés (1953)
Steven Brust, Escritor americano (1955)
Maxwell Caulfield, Actor inglés (1959)
Vincent Cassel, Actor francés (1966)
Asafa Powell, Atleta jamaicano (1982)
Emma Daumas, Cantante francesa (1983)
Miley Cyrus, Actriz y cantante estadounidense (1992)

Nos han dejado un 23 Noviembre

Agnolo di Cosimo (Bronzino), Pintor francés (1572)
Richard Hakluyt, Escritor inglés (1616)
Claude Lorrain (Le Lorrain), Pintor francés (1682)
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, Mariscal francés (1833)
Sessue Hayakawa, Actor japonés (1973)
André Malraux, Escritor francés (1976)
Merle Oberon, Actriz inglesa (1979)
Roald Dahl, Escritor inglés (1990)
Klaus Kinski, Actor alemán (1991)
Louis Malle, Director de cine francés (1995)
Alexander Litvinenko, Espía ruso (2006)
Philippe Noiret, Actor francés (2006)
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