Today is Wednesday, Nov. 23, the 328th day of 2016. There are 38 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Former labor secretary William E. Brock is 86. Former Red Sox star Luis Tiant is 76. Sen. Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, is 66. Singer Bruce Hornsby is 62. TV personality Robin Roberts (“Good Morning America’’) is 56. Rock singer-musician Ken Block (Sister Hazel) is 50. Actor Lucas Grabeel is 32. TV personality Nicole ‘‘Snooki’’ Polizzi is 29. Actress-singer Miley Cyrus is 24. Actor Austin Majors is 21.

In 1765, Frederick County, Maryland, became the first colonial American entity to repudiate the British Stamp Act.

In 1910, American-born physician Hawley Harvey Crippen was hanged at Pentonville Prison in London for murdering his wife, Cora. (Crippen’s mistress, Ethel Le Neve, was acquitted in a separate trial of being an accessory.)

In 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed Nov. 25 a day of national mourning following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

In 1996, a commandeered Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the water off the Comoros Islands, killing 125 of the 175 people on board, including all three hijackers.

In 2011, Yemen’s authoritarian President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to step down amid a fierce uprising to oust him after 33 years in power.

In 2015, the White House urged its allies to step up their contributions to the campaign against the Islamic State, as President Obama faced pressure to show the US-led coalition would intensify efforts even without a major shift in strategy.