This is our day guide for Wednesday November 23rd 2016 which shows you at a glance what's happening on this day around the world. Using the calendar on this page, you can look at a day guide for any day. Why not look up your birthday to see which holidays you share it with?
Holidays on November 23rd 2016
Georgia: Saint George's Day
Commemorates the torture of St. George on the wheel for refusing to make sacrifices to the Roman gods
Japan: Labour Thanksgiving Day
Labor Thanksgiving Day is a modern name for the ritual of Harvest FestivalGo to Today | November 24th 2016
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| General Information for November 23rd 2016 | |
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| There are 2 public holidays today. | |
| Day 328 of 2016 | |
| 38 days left in 2016 | |
| Week 47 of the year | |
| On this Day in History | |
| 2006 – A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003. | |
| 2005 - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country. | |
| 1963 – The BBC broadcasts the first episode of Doctor Who (starring William Hartnell), which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama. | |
| 1910 - Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden. |
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