What happend on 23rd November

22.11
24.11
2003

Berkeley Breathed begins the comic strip Opus.

2003

Beleaguered Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.

1996

The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Angola.

1996

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes after running out of fuel off the coast of Comoros into the Indian Ocean, killing 127.

1993

Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.

1991

Queen frontman Freddie Mercury publicly announces that he has AIDS. Freddie dies peacefully the next day.

1990

Punk rock band Bad Religion releases their seventh album, Against the Grain in the United States

1985

Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the hijacked jetliner, but 60 people die in the raid.

1984

Boston College Quarterback Doug Flutie throws a game-winning 48-yard Hail Mary pass to Gerard Phelan to defeat the University of Miami Hurricanes 45-41. It is one of the most famous plays in American college football history.

1981

Iran-Contra scandal: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.