November 23rd

November 23  is the 328th day of the year.  There are 38 days remaining until the end of the year.

1887 Notre Dame loses its 1st football game 8-0 to Michigan; begins pledge drive for Touchdown Jesus mosaic.

1937 Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy" premieres in New York City

1942 Poon Lim sets adrift for 133 days after his boat is torpedoed

1963 "Doctor Who," the long-running British sci-fi series, debuts in England

1979 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks

1993 "Angels in America-Perestroika" opens at Walter Kerr New York City for 216 performances

1995 Grant Morrison asks readers of his comic book series The Invisibles to participate in a worldwide "wank-off" to give power to a sigil intended to keep the series in circulation.

2005 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, elected president of Liberia, is the first woman to lead an African country. Mrs. Johnson-Sirleaf will share the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.

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. Although there are no fatalities, it’s pretty clear that anything named Microsoft will crash sooner or later.

1859 Billy the Kid [William H. Bonney [McCarty]], maybe gay US outlaw 

1892 Erté [Romain de Tirtoff], bisexual Russian-born French artist/designer 

1941 Franco Nero [Francesco Sparanero], bisexual Italian actor 

1948 Bruce Vilanch, gay US comedy writer/actor 

1959 Maxwell Caulfield, English actor 

1966 Vincent Cassel [Crochon], French actor 

1970 Oded Fehr, Israeli actor 

1970 Christoph Mory, German actor 

1976 Page Kennedy, maybe gay US actor 

1978 Kayvan Novak, Iranian-English actor 

1981 Alex Barahona, Spanish actor 

1983 Gaston Dalmau, maybe gay Argentine actor/singer 

1991 Klaus Kinski [Nikolaus Günther Nakszynski], German actor (Android, Little Drummer Girl), loses his venom