What day of the week was November 23, 2006?

The day of the week November 23rd, 2006 fell on was a Thursday.

There were 32 days until Christmas.

Jesús Blancornelas the Mexican journalist, co-founded Zeta (magazine)|Zeta Magazine (b. 1936) died on this day in 2006. As did Nick Clarke the English journalist (b. 1948) , Betty Comden the American actress, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1917) , Alexander Litvinenko the Russian spy (b. 1962) , Philippe Noiret the French actor (b. 1930) , Anita O'Day the American singer (b. 1919) , Willie Pep the American boxer (b. 1922) .

A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City the making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.