Today in History

November 23

1863 - The Battle of Chattanooga, one of the most decisive battles of the American Civil War, begins.

1891 - Deodoroda Fonseca, first President of Brazil, is ousted by a navy revolt.

1921 - US bans the doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medical purposes.

1932 - The kingdoms of Nejd and Hejaz merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

1943 - US forces defeat the Japanese in Pacific battle of Tarawa in the Second World War.

1963 - Sixty-three elderly people are killed in a fire that destroys the Golden Age Nursing Home in Ohio.

1971 - China takes its seat as a permanent member of UN Security Council.

1980 - An earthquake in the Naples area of Italy kills 2,570 people.

1986 - Philippines President Corazon Aquino dismisses defence chief Juan Ponce Enrile after a reported coup attempt.

1990 - Iraq ends curfew in occupied Kuwait, but begins calling up army reservists in their thirties.

1996 - A hijacked Ethiopian airliner carrying 175 passengers runs out of

fuel and crashes on the Comoros Islands, killing 125 people.

2000 - UAE donates $150 million to the Intifada and Al Quds funds.

2001 - A huge landslide buries gold miners illegally digging into the side of a mountain in western Colombia, killing at least 28 people.

2003 - Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze announces his resignation.

2004 - Ukraine crisis spins out of control.

2005 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is confirmed as the winner in Liberia’s first post-war elections.

2008 - President Hugo Chavez’s allies win a majority in Venezuela’s state and municipal elections.

2010 - North Korea bombards a South Korean Island, causing terror, destruction and deaths of two South Korean soldiers.

2011 - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a power transfer agreement to end his 33-year rule.

2014 - Manny Pacquiao retains his World Boxing Organisation welterweight title after beating American Chris Algieri at Cotai Arena in Macau.

2015 - Pfizer buys Allergan in $160 billion (Dh588.48 billion) deal.