TODAY IN HISTORY

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.”

1936: Life, the photojournalism magazine created by Henry R. Luce (loos), was first published.

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

1971: The People’s Republic of China was seated in the U.N. Security Council.

1980: Some 2,600 people were killed by a series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy.

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.

2000: In a setback for Al Gore, the Florida Supreme Court refused to order Miami-Dade County officials to resume hand-counting its electionday 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.