Men Who Made History…Today

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Men Who Made History…Today

By James Hughes

Men who made History1891        Nov 23, Deodoroda Fonseca, the 1st president of Brazil, was ousted by a navy revolt.1903        Nov 23, Singer Enrico Caruso made his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, appearing as the Duke of Mantua in “Rigoletto.”1910        Nov 23, Hawley H. Crippen, doctor and murderer, was hanged.1963        Nov 23, President Johnson proclaimed Nov. 25 a day of national mourning as JFK’s body lay in repose in East Room of White House.1988        Nov 23, President-elect Bush announced his choice of Brent Scowcroft to be his national security adviser.1990        Nov 23, President Bush conferred separately with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo and Syrian President Hafez Assad in Geneva, seeking Arab support for his drive to expel Iraqi troops from Kuwait.1993        Nov 23, President Clinton signed legislation lifting remaining US sanctions against South Africa, and announced an initiative to spur investment in South Africa’s black private sector.1996        Nov 23, In Russia Pres. Yeltsin ordered all troops withdrawn from Chechnya by Jan 27, when elections would be held1999        Nov 23, Bill Gates announced his charitable foundation will give $750 million over the next 5 years to improve the health of young children in underdeveloped nations.1999        Nov 23, Defense Secretary William Cohen called for a military-wide review of conduct after a Pentagon study said up to 75 percent of blacks and other ethnic minorities reported experiencing racially offensive behavior.2000        Nov 23, In Kosovo Xhemail Mustafa (46), pacifist advisor to Ibrahim Rugova, was shot dead by 2 gunmen in Pristina.2001        Nov 23, Israeli helicopter gunships near Nablus killed Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, a senior Hamas leader.2002        Nov 23, President Bush visited Vilnius, Lithuania, and Bucharest, Romania, where he vowed to defend hard-won freedoms behind the former Iron Curtain.2003        Nov 23, Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze signed his resignation papers as leaders of protesters already occupying parliament urged tens of thousands of supporters to seize more organs of state power and some military units defected to the jubilant protesters thronging the capital’s streets. Nino Burdzhanadze, leader of the United Democrats opposition, declared herself acting president and announced a new election within 45 days.2004        Nov 23, Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz arrived in India to help push forward a fragile peace process.2005        Nov 23, Dr. Thomas Dawber (92) died in Florida. He led the revolutionary Framingham Heart Study (1949-1966) that identified the major risk factors for heart disease.2005        Nov 23, In Chile former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was indicted and put under house arrest on charges of tax evasion and corruption related to his multimillion-dollar overseas accounts.2006        Nov 23, Chinese President Hu Jintao received a red carpet welcome to Pakistan on a trip aimed at expanding economic ties with Beijing’s longtime ally, including signing a free trade agreement between the two countries.2006        Nov 23, Farai Chiweshe, deputy director for the Southern African Human Rights Trust (SAHRIT), a leading Zimbabwean rights group, slammed President Robert Mugabe’s government for failing to ratify a United Nations convention against torture and condoning its use by state agents.2007        Nov 23, In Cuba Robert Vesco (b.1935), a fugitive financier, died of lung cancer. He had been wanted in the US for crimes ranging from securities fraud and drug trafficking to political bribery. News of this death was not publicly reported for another 5 months.2008        Nov 23, Kenyan PM Raila Odinga called for the deployment of African Union peacekeepers to Zimbabwe to bring President Robert Mugabe back into line.2009        Nov 23, Jacques Monsieur (56), a Belgian arms dealer pleaded guilty, in an Alabama courtroom to conspiracy to illegally export F-5 fighter jet engines and parts from the US to Iran. Monsieur, along with Dara Fotouhi, an Iranian national living in France, was charged in a six-count indictment with conspiracy, money laundering and smuggling.2010        Nov 23, Alfred Gaynor (43), a serial killer from western Massachusetts admitted to strangling a woman in 1995, his first victim of eight.2011        Nov 23, Rafiq Tagi, a prominent Azeri journalist, died in Baku four days after he was stabbed six times by an unknown assailant. Tagi claimed the attack was retaliation for his opinion piece published earlier this month that criticized the government of neighboring Iran.2014        Nov 23, Marion Barry (b.1936), the scandal-plagued former mayor of Washington, DC, died. Barry was elected mayor 4 times (1978, 1982, 1986 and 1994). He was jailed in 1990 for smoking crack cocaine, but made a surprising return to office in 1994.2014        Nov 23, Italian PM Matteo Renzi’s center-left Democratic Party (PD) won regional elections in Calabria and Emilia Romagna but a low turnout suggested growing disillusion among many voters. 

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