📜 This Day in History

November 23

• 1635Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa: Soldiers from the Dutch East India Company razed the village of Mattau, now part of modern-day Tainan, Taiwan.
• 1733African slaves in the Danish West Indies began an insurrection in one of the earliest and longest slave revolts in the Americas.
• 1876William "Boss" Tweed, a New York City politician who had been arrested for embezzlement, was handed over to US authorities after having escaped from prison and fled to Spain.
• 1976Jacques Mayol became the first person to freedive to a depth of 100 metres (330 ft).
• 2003Rose Revolution: Eduard Shevardnadze resigned as President of Georgia following weeks of mass protests over disputed election results.
• 2011Arab Spring: After months of protests in Yemen, President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to transfer power to Vice President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi.

Born on this day

• 1804Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (died 1869)
• 1837Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1923)
• 1962Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan union leader and politician, President of Venezuela
• 1992Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress