1889 - the world's first Jukebox goes into operation in San Francisco
1940 - Romania signs the Tripartite pact, becoming an offical Member of the Axis of Evil.
1959 - Charles de Gaulle declares his vision for a Europe that reaches from the Atlantic to the Urals. That worked out well.
1963 - Lyndon Johnson's first full day in the worst job in the world is overshadowed by the broadcasting of the first evere episode of Doctor Who. One of these two men remains entrenched in the popular psyche to this day. Nice to know what's important in life.
1976 - Jacques Mayol becomes the first man to reach a depth of 100m without benefit of breathing apparatus.
1981 - National Security Decision Directive 17 is signed by Ronald Reagan, givingthe CIA authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1990 - The first all woman expedition to the South Pole sets off in Antartica. They are expected to arrive somtime next week if they can finally agree on which way up to hold the map.

Birthdays :

912 - Otto I the great, emperor of the holy Roman Empire
1859 - Billy the Kid, criminal
1887 - Boris Karloff, movie monster
1888 - Harpo Marx, marx brother
1944 - Joe Eszterhas, film writer and producer
1945 - Dennis Nilsen, untile recently, Scotland's premier serial killer
1949 - Sandra Stevens, once part of Eurovision award winning legends, Brotherhood of man
1954 - Bruce Hornsby, a man in search of his Range
1954 - Ross Brawn - F1 engineer and now team owner
1961 - Merv Hughes, Australian cricketer and location of the finest facial hair in history
1970 - Zoe Ball, once famous in the Uk
1979 - Kelly Brook, likewise
1992 - Miley Cyrus, inspiration for Camilla's book of 2009

And significant deaths for:

Edred, King of England (955); Roald Dahl (1990); Mary Whitehouse (2001) and Alexander Litvenenko (2006)

And that's the 23rd of November.