What happened on 23 November?

7 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1993 Doggystyle (Snoop Doggy Dogg album) Snoop's debut: the first debut album to enter the Billboard 200 at number one.
2. 2005 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf elected The Liberian economist becomes the first woman elected head of state in Africa; later a Nobel Peace laureate.
3. 1407 Burgundy murders the Duke of Orléans Hired killers cut down the mad king's brother in a Paris street on the orders of his cousin John the Fearless of Burgundy — who admits it, has a theologian defend tyrannicide, and
4. 1972 The N1 rocket's fourth failure ends the Soviet Moon programme The giant N1 — the Soviet Saturn V — explodes on its fourth and final test, seconds from a clean flight. With the Americans already five landings deep, Moscow quietly cancels the p
5. 1644 Milton's Areopagitica Milton's unlicensed pamphlet against Parliament's pre-publication censorship: 'Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience.'
6. 1834 Berlioz's Harold en Italie Paganini asks for a viola showpiece; Berlioz writes a Byronic symphony in which the soloist mostly broods — yet four years later Paganini kneels before him in homage.
7. 1654 Pascal's night of fire In two hours of mystical ecstasy — 'Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers' — Pascal is converted; he sews the note into his coat.