11-23-2012, 05:31 PM
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November 23rd
1860 ~ Birthday of Billy the Kid, Outlaw.
1869 ~ The "Cutty Sark" was launched. It is the last example of a Clipper ship.
1887 ~ Birthday of Boris Karloff, Actor.
1888 ~ Birthday of Harpo Marx, Comedian.
1943 ~ U.S. Marines seized control of the Tarawa and Makin atolls from the Japanese.
1955 ~ Death of Shemp Howard, actor, comedian (The Three Stooges)
1963 ~ The first episode of the science fiction TV series "Doctor Who" aired on the BBC.
1993 ~ Rachel Whiteread won both the Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.
2001 ~ Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
2002 ~ Sectarian violence force the Miss World contest to move to London from Nigeria.
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