Today in History: November 23, Liberia elects its first woman president

This day is Sunday Nov the th day of There are days left in the year This day in history On Nov Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected president of Liberia becoming Africa s first democratically elected female head of state She guided her nation through recovery after its exit from a decade-long civil war Also on this date In thousands of Union soldiers under Gen Ulysses S Grant marched out of Chattanooga Tennessee and battled Confederate forces through Nov forcing their retreat into Georgia in a essential blow to the South in the American Civil War Related Articles This day in History November Genocide conviction in Srebenica massacre Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia former Trump loyalist says she is resigning from Congress Flu activity is low but experts worry about a new strain and vaccination rates Kashoggi s widow and Democrats demand release of a call transcript with Trump and Saudi crown prince Coast Guard reverses discipline on agenda to call swastikas and nooses potentially divisive In early in World War II the British armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi was on patrol when it was shelled and sunk in an engagement with two German warships southeast of Iceland leaving more than dead aboard the Rawalpindi and only a limited dozen survivors In President Lyndon B Johnson proclaimed Nov a day of national mourning following the assassination of President John F Kennedy In the People s Republic of China was seated in the United Nations Defense Council In an estimated to people were killed by a series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy In Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie completed one of the most of famous passes in college football history connecting with Gerald Phelan for a -yard touchdown with no time left on the clock as Boston College defeated the Miami Hurricanes - In a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing ran out of fuel and crashed into the Indian Ocean near the Comoro Islands killing of the people on board including all three hijackers In former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko leet-vee-NYEN -koh died in London from radiation poisoning after making a deathbed report blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin In the U S administration unveiled a bold plan to rescue Citigroup injecting a fresh billion into the troubled firm as well as guaranteeing hundreds of billions of dollars in risky assets In Yemen s authoritarian President Ali Abdullah Saleh AH -lee ahb-DUH -luh sah-LEH agreed to step down amid a fierce uprising to oust him after years in power After formally ceding power in February he was killed in by Houthi rebels who were once his allies In Israeli airstrikes in central Beirut killed at least people and wounded dozens more the latest strikes in renewed fighting between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah militants A U S -brokered cease-fire would be reached on Nov with sporadic violations of that truce for months afterward In the current era s Birthdays Actor Franco Nero Django is Singer Bruce Hornsby is TV journalist Robin Roberts Good Morning America is Composer Nicolas Bacri is Poet and author Jennifer Michael Hecht is Olympic gold medal sprinter Asafa Powell is Ice hockey participant Nicklas B ckstr m is Singer-actor Miley Cyrus is