TODAY IN WORLD HISTORY
Today is Wednesday, Nov. 23, the 328th day of 2016. There are 38 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History
On Nov. 23, 1936, Life, the photojournalism magazine created by Henry R. Luce (loos), was first published.
On this date
• In 1765, Frederick County, Maryland, became the first colonial American entity to repudiate the British Stamp Act.
•In 1804, the 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce (puhrs), was born in Hillsboro, New Hampshire.
•In 1889, the first jukebox made its debut in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon. (The coinoperated device consisted of four listening tubes attached to an Edison phonograph.)
• In 1903, Enrico Caruso made his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, appearing in “Rigoletto.”
• 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 1914, the seven-month U.S. military occupation of Veracruz, Mexico, ended.
• In 1945, most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, was set to expire by day’s end.
• In 1959, the musical “Fiorello!” starring Tom Bosley as legendary New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, opened on Broadway.
• In 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed Nov. 25 a day of national mourning following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
• In 1971, the People’s Republic of China was seated in the U.N. Security Council.
• In 1980, some 2,600 people were killed by a series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy.
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.
Ten years ago
Car bombs and mortar rounds struck a Shiite slum in Baghdad, killing 215 people. Former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko (leet-vee-NYEN’-koh) died in London from radiation poisoning after making a deathbed statement blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin. Death claimed Broadway librettist Betty Comden at age 89; jazz vocalist Anita O’Day at age 87; and French actor Philippe Noiret at age 76.
Five years ago
Yemen’s authoritarian President Ali Abdullah Saleh (AH’-lee ahb-DUH’-luh sah-LEH’) agreed to step down amid a fierce uprising to oust him after 33 years in power.
One year ago
The White House urged its allies to step up their contributions to the campaign against the Islamic State, as President Barack Obama faced pressure to show the U.S.-led coalition would intensify efforts even without a major shift in strategy. Blue Origin, a private space company, landed a rocket called New Shepard upright and gently enough to be used again, a milestone in commercial aeronautics. Cynthia Robinson, 71, a trumpeter and vocalist who was a key member of Sly and the Family Stone, died in Carmichael, California.