| 132931 | November 23 | Event | 1943 – World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin. |
| 132932 | November 23 | Event | 1943 – World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces. |
| 132933 | November 23 | Event | 1946 – French naval bombardment of Hai Phong, Vietnam, kills thousands of civilians. This was to lead to the First Indochina War. |
| 132934 | November 23 | Event | 1955 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia. |
| 132935 | November 23 | Event | 1959 – French President Charles de Gaulle declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals". |
| 132936 | November 23 | Event | 1963 – The BBC broadcasts "An Unearthly Child" (starring William Hartnell), the first episode of the science-fiction television serial of the same name and the first episode of Doctor Who, which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama. |
| 132937 | November 23 | Event | 1971 – Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time. |
| 132938 | November 23 | Event | 1972 – The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching the N1 rocket. |
| 132939 | November 23 | Event | 1974 – Sixty Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government. |
| 132940 | November 23 | Event | 1976 – Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment. |
| 132941 | November 23 | Event | 1978 – Cyclone kills about 1000 people in Eastern Sri Lanka. |
| 132942 | November 23 | Event | 1978: The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 goes into effect, realigning many of Europe's longwave & mediumwave broadcasting frequencies. |
| 132943 | November 23 | Event | 1979 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten. |
| 132944 | November 23 | Event | 1980 – A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 3,000 people. |
| 132945 | November 23 | Event | 1981 – Iran–Contra affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua. |
| 132946 | November 23 | Event | 1985 – Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid. |
| 132947 | November 23 | Event | 1992 – The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
| 132948 | November 23 | Event | 1993 – Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year. |
| 132949 | November 23 | Event | 1996 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125. |
| 132950 | November 23 | Event | 2001 – The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary. |
| 132951 | November 23 | Event | 2003 – Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections. |
| 132952 | November 23 | Event | 2004 – The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated. |
| 132953 | November 23 | Event | 2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country. |
| 132954 | November 23 | Event | 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. |
| 132955 | November 23 | Event | 2007 – MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities. |
| 132956 | November 23 | Event | 2009 – The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines |
| 132957 | November 23 | Event | 2010 – Bombardment of Yeonpyeong: North Korean artillery attack kills two civilians and two marines on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. |
| 132958 | November 23 | Event | 2011 – Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity. |
| 132959 | November 23 | Birth | 912 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973) |
| 132960 | November 23 | Birth | 1221 – Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284) |