23 Kasım

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.

World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.

World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.

World War II: HMS Rawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.

Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.

The 1923 Irish hunger strikes ends, four Irish Republicans die from starvation.

Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States, signs the Willis–Campbell Act into law, prohibiting doctors from prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes.

Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.

Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.