What Day of the Week

November 21, 2023 was the 325^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 40 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is martes.

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Here’s the November calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

• 1861

  American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin secretary of war.
• 1916

  World War I: A mine explodes and sinks HMHS Britannic in the Aegean Sea, killing 30 people.
• 1918

  A pogrom takes place in Lwów (now Lviv); over three days, at least 50 Jews and 270 Ukrainian Christians are killed by Poles.
• 1927

  Columbine Mine Massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
• 1942

  The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by general vehicles until 1943).
• 1959

  American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term “rock and roll” and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio for refusing to deny allegations that he had participated in the payola scandal.
• 1964

  Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church’s ecumenical council closes.
• 1977

  Minister of Internal Affairs Allan Highet announces that 'the national anthems of New Zealand shall be the traditional anthem “God Save the Queen” and the poem “God Defend New Zealand”, written by Thomas Bracken, as set to music by John Joseph Woods, both being of equal status as national anthems appropriate to the occasion.
• 1986

  Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
• 1996

  Antonio Salinass in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33.

• 1761

  Dorothea Jordan, British actress (d. 1816)
• 1913

  Roy Boulting, British film director (d. 2001)
• 1916

  Sid Luckman, American football player (d. 1998)
• 1921

  Joonas Kokkonen, Finnish composer (d. 1996)
• 1929

  Marilyn French, American feminist writer (d. 2009)
• 1944

  Harold Ramis, American actor/director
• 1966

  Evgeny Bareev, Russian chess Grandmaster
• 1972

  David Tua, Samoan boxer
• 1984

  Jena Malone, American actress
• 1993

  Elena Myers, American motorcycle racer

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