Iran–Contra affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support…
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23 November 2007
MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands….
23 November 1991
Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury announces in a statement that he is HIV-positive. He dies the following day.
23 November 1992
The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
23 November 1914
Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Revolution’]
23 November 1963
The Beatles release With the Beatles. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_the_Beatles’]
23 November 1978
A cyclone kills over 1000 people in eastern Sri Lanka. The 1978 cyclone in Eastern province was the strongest tropical cyclone to strike Eastern province…
23 November 2001
The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary. The Convention on Cybercrime, also known as the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime or the Budapest Convention,…
23 November 1978
A cyclone in Eastern Sri Lanka kills almost 1000 people. The 1978 cyclone in Eastern province of Sri Lanka was the strongest tropical cyclone which…