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Events on November 23

• 1870 During the Siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War, the Kingdom of Bavaria joins the North German Confederation in the founding of the German Empire, but reserves rights. The November Treaties allow it, among other things, to have its own army, postal service, and railways.
• 1923 After attempted uprisings in Germany, General Hans von Seeckt bans the KPD, the NSDAP, and the German People's Freedom Party.
• 1936 The Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Nobel Peace Prize for 1935 to Carl von Ossietzky, who is being held captive by the National Socialist regime, and the prize for 1936 to Argentina's Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas.
• 1938 The German fire services are placed under police authority, and their vehicles are marked with blue lights and sirens.
• 1963 An Unearthly Child, the first episode of the world's longest-running television series, Doctor Who, is broadcast.
• 1973 After half a year, the air traffic controllers in Germany end their strike.
• 1977 With Meteosat-1, the first of a series of geostationary weather satellites is launched by the ESA. This is Europe's contribution to the establishment of the global weather satellite system.
• 1989 In Berlin, the Governing Mayor Walter Momper presents the rock singer Udo Lindenberg with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on ribbon on behalf of the Federal President for his services in promoting understanding between East and West.
• 1992 In arson attacks motivated by right-wing extremism on two houses inhabited by Turkish families in the small town of Mölln in Schleswig-Holstein, two girls and their grandmother die. Nine people are injured, some seriously.
• 1996 The boxer Henry Maske loses his farewell fight against Virgil Hill. The pop song Time to Say Goodbye by Andrea Bocelli, recorded for this occasion, remains at number 1 on the charts for 12 weeks.
• 2006 Former Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Litvinenko of the Russian intelligence service FSB dies, presumably in an assassination using the radioactive substance polonium-210.
• 2006 With the article on Janina Korowicka, German-language Wikipedia surpasses the 500,000-article threshold.

Born on November 23

• 1876 Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer
• 1882 John Rabe, German businessman and humanitarian rescuer
• 1901 Marieluise Fleißer, German writer
• 1920 Paul Celan, German lyric poet
• 1941 Franco Nero, Italian actor
• 1963 Andreas Schmidt, German actor, director, and rock singer
• 1970 Katja Kraus, German football player and official
• 1971 Frank Giering, German actor
• 1982 Asafa Powell, Jamaican track and field athlete
• 1982 Anna Maria Sturm, German actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „23. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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