November 23 in History November 23rd is… Border Collie Day National Cashew Day Eat a Cranberry Day Espresso Day 1644 – John Milton published Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship. 1874 – A paper by Ferdinand Braun was published in the Annalen der Physik und Chemie describing his discovery of the electrical rectifier effect, the first semi-conductor. 1889 – …