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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_23" title="November 23">November 23</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Thanksgiving_Day" title="Labor Thanksgiving Day">Labor Thanksgiving Day</a></b> in Japan
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1733" title="1733">1733</a> – African slaves in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_West_Indies" title="Danish West Indies">Danish West Indies</a> began <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1733_slave_insurrection_on_St._John" title="1733 slave insurrection on St. John">an insurrection</a></b> in one of the earliest and longest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_rebellion" title="Slave rebellion">slave revolts</a> in the Americas.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1867" title="1867">1867</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Martyrs" title="Manchester Martyrs">Manchester Martyrs</a></b> were hanged in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a>, England, for killing a police officer while helping two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_nationalism" title="Irish nationalism">Irish nationalists</a> escape from police custody.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924" title="1924">1924</a> – stating that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy" title="Andromeda Galaxy">Andromeda Nebula</a>, previously believed to be part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way" title="Milky Way">Milky Way</a>, is in fact another galaxy.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976" title="1976">1976</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Mayol" title="Jacques Mayol">Jacques Mayol</a></b> became the first person to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freediving" title="Freediving">freedive</a> to a depth of 100 metres (330 ft).</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011" title="2011">2011</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring" title="Arab Spring">Arab Spring</a>: After <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Revolution" title="Yemeni Revolution">months of protests in Yemen</a>, President <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Abdullah_Saleh" title="Ali Abdullah Saleh">Ali Abdullah Saleh</a></b> agreed to transfer power to Vice President <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdrabbuh_Mansur_Hadi" title="Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi">Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi</a></b>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatriz_Galindo" title="Beatriz Galindo">Beatriz Galindo</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1535); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Lissitzky" title="El Lissitzky">El Lissitzky</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1890); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse" title="Mary Whitehouse">Mary Whitehouse</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2001)</p>