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15 November 2023 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 15 November 2023 was a Wednesday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Now and Then” by The Beatles.
- Top Film of 2023
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2023 was Barbie.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 15 November is Scorpio.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 15 November 2023 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for November is Topaz.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 15 November 2023 was Waxing Crescent.
On this day: 15 November
- 2006 Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
- 2012 Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
- 2016 Hong Kong's High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city's Parliament.
- 2020 Lewis Hamilton wins the Turkish Grand Prix and secures his seventh drivers' title, equalling the all-time record held by Michael Schumacher.
- 2022 The world population reached eight billion.
Famous people born on 15 November
- Shailene Woodley, American actress (born 1991)
- Jonny Lee Miller, English-American actor (born 1972)
- Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (1891–1944)
- Karl-Anthony Towns, Dominican-American basketball player (born 1995)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2023 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2023 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 22 April – Sunak holds an emergency COBRA meeting to discuss the evacuation of British nationals caught up in the Sudan conflict.
- 13 May – The final of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Liverpool. The contest is won by Sweden's Loreen with the song "Tattoo", who becomes only the second person and the first woman to win the contest twice.
- 20 June – British businessmen Hamish Harding and Shahzada Dawood, along with Dawood's son, Suleman, are confirmed as being aboard the missing submersible that disappeared during a voyage to see the wreck of the RMS Titanic two days earlier.
Life in 2023
Prime Minister
Rishi Sunak
Monarch
Charles III
Pint of Beer
£4.80
Loaf of Bread
£1.95
Average House
£291,228
Weekly Wage
£1,035.00
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