Today In History
Today is Tuesday, Nov. 23, the 327th day of 2021. There are 38 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
› 1971: The People’s Republic of China was seated in the U.N. Security Council.
ON THIS DATE
› 1889: The first jukebox made its debut in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon. (The coin-operated device consisted of four listening tubes attached to an Edison phonograph.)
› 1903: Enrico Caruso made his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, appearing in “Rigoletto.”
› 1914: The sevenmonth U.S. military occupation of Veracruz, Mexico, ended.
› 1936: Life, the photojournalism magazine created by Henry R. Luce, was first published.
› 1963: President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed Nov. 25 a day of national mourning following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
› 1980: Some 2,600 people were killed by a series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy.
› 1992: Country music star Roy Acuff died in Nashville, Tennessee, at age 89. ›
2000: In a setback for Al Gore, the Florida Supreme Court refused to order Miami-Dade County officials to resume hand-counting its election-day ballots. Meanwhile, Gore’s lawyers argued in a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court that the high court should stay out of the Florida election controversy.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Actor Franco Nero is 80. Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas is 77. Actor-comedy writer Bruce Vilanch is 74. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is 71. Singer Bruce Hornsby is 67. Former Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., is 66. Actor Maxwell Caulfield is
62. Actor John Henton is 61. TV personality Robin Roberts (“Good Morning America”) is
61. Rock singer-musician Ken Block (Sister Hazel) is 55. Actor Salli Richardson-Whitfield is
54. Actor Oded Fehr is
51. Rapper-actor Kurupt (Tha Dogg Pound) is 49. Actor Page Kennedy is
45. Actor Kelly Brook is
42. Actor Lucas Grabeel is 37. TV personality Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is 34. Actor-singer Miley Cyrus is 29. Actor Olivia Keville (TV: “Splitting Up Together”) is 19.