November 23rd Major News Events

1973 Israel -- Ship Sinks

Five crewmen were drowned when the Cypriot freight ship sank into the sea. It sank into the Mediterranean about 18 miles from Tel Aviv.

1980 Italy -- Earthquake

An earthquake between 6.5 and 6.8 on the Richter scale struck southern Italy centered on Conza, and the worst hit areas were Sant'Angelo di Lombardi, Lioni, Naples, Teora and Balvano, the death toll is believed to be in the region of 3,000 and has left over 300,000 homeless. In Balvano a small mountain village where more than 100 persons were reported killed, many of them in the collapse of a 600-year-old church during evening vespers services.

1983 Switzerland -- Missile Talks Break Down

1983 : Soviets walked out from a Geneva Missile Talks session. Members of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Association) urged the Russians to come back to the meeting table. However, the talks had already gone on for about two years, and the Russians were unlikely to be convinced very easily to return.

1984 UK -- Oxford Circus Tube Station Fire

A fire at Oxford Circus Tube Station trapped over 1,000 underground in the station, luckily there were no fatalities but a number of those trapped were taken to a nearby hospital suffering from smoke inhalation.

1985 Greece -- EgyptAir Flight 648 Hijacking

1985 : Terrorists belonging to the Abu Nidal Palestinian terrorist Organization hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 shortly after takeoff from Athens. The pilot is forced to land the aircraft at Luqa Airport in Malta. After some negotiation some of the passengers were allowed off but as the terrorists became more desperate they began shooting passengers one every 15 minutes. As the situation worsened an Egyptian Combat Unit is bought in and on the 25th they attack the aircraft with explosives and stormed the aircraft. The commando raid ended in disaster leaving 56 (out of the remaining 88) passengers, two crew members, and one terrorist dead.

1995 Germany -- Nato Forces Bosnia

NATO military forces being sent to Bosnia were expected to adhere to a very strict code. This code was called the "Rules of Engagement", included notification by NATO soldiers of any need to use force. Military troops being sent to Bosnia had the right to use any forces within reason to protect them.

1996 Comoro Islands -- Hijacking

1996: Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 Flight ET961 flying from Addis Ababa to Nairobi is hijacked by three men, four hours later after running out of fuel it was forced to ditch into the sea, at least 100 people were killed when the plane disintegrated as it attempted to land .

2001 Russia -- NATO

2001: Although Russia seemed ambivalent about joining NATO, they also are very supportive of this organization. This country has wanted a vote within this organization for a long time. Talk of a Russian-NATO alliance was in the works at this time.

2001 Hungary -- Convention on Cybercrime

Convention on Cybercrime is signed by members of the council of Europe, USA, Canada, Japan and the Republic of South Africa in Budapest, Hungary. The treaty objectives is to pursue a common criminal policy aimed at the protection of society against cybercrime, including computer-related forgery and fraud, child pornography and cyber terrorism. As with any piece of legislation the problems come from balancing civil liberty and privacy concerns with the need to catch criminal elements using the Internet for illegal uses.

2002 Nigeria -- Miss World

The Miss World contest is forced to relocate to London from Abuja after riots by Muslim youths opposed to the show left more than 100 people dead and 500 injured in the city of Kaduna.

2005 Liberia -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

2005 : Johnson Sirleaf is elected as the first woman President of an African country when she wins the Liberian Presidential elections. Her inauguration took place on January 16, 2006 with a number of international politicians attending and Condoleezza Rice, Laura Bush from the United States.

2006 UK -- EX Russian Spy Litvinenko dies

Shortly after Alexander Litvinenko's death, the UK's Health Protection Agency said that tests had established that he had significant amounts of the radionuclide polonium-210 (210Po) in his body. The Polonium was only identified after his death. Doctors and police investigators had not been able to detect polonium before because it doesn't emit gamma rays (which are encountered with most radioactive isotopes). Litvinenko had ingested polonium-210, a poisonous radioactive isotope.

2013 China -- Oil Pipeline Bursts

2013 : Over fifty people died after a leaking oil pipeline caught on fire and exploded in Qingdao, China. Over one-hundred others were injured. Several workers associated with the pipeline were later arrested for their irresponsibility in maintaining the pipeline.

23rd November Signs Of The Zodiac Sagittarius

The Beginning for Sagittarius, The Sign of The Archer