WHAT HAPPENED ON 23. NOVEMBER
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Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage. (23. November 534. BC)

Saladin enters Damascus, and adds it to his domain. (23. November 1174)

Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile. (23. November 1248)

Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England. (23. November 1499)

First campaign of the Ottoman Empire against the Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack the capital Kutaisi and burn Gelati Monastery. (23. November 1510)

The Second war of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland. (23. November 1531)

John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship. (23. November 1644)

The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies. (23. November 1733)

French and Poles defeat the Spanish at battle of Tudela. (23. November 1808)

Sarah Booth debuts at the Royal Opera House. (23. November 1810)

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. (23. November 1863)

The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody. (23. November 1867)

Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain. (23. November 1876)

The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. (23. November 1889)

King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him. (23. November 1890)

Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden. (23. November 1910)

Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair. (23. November 1914)

Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (23. November 1918)

Edwin Hubble's scientific discovery that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula within our galaxy, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe, was first published in a newspaper. (23. November 1924)

An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis. (23. November 1934)