November 23
1889 - The first jukebox was installed at the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco.
1936 - The first issue of "Life" magazine hit the newsstands. The cover photograph, by Margaret Bourke-White, featured the Fort Peck Dam.
1945 - U.S. wartime food rationing of meat, butter and other foods, ended.
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 at 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 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.
2006 - Former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko died in London from radiation poisoning after making a deathbed statement blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin.
2008 - The government unveiled a bold plan to rescue Citigroup, injecting a fresh $20 billion into the troubled firm as well as guaranteeing hundreds of billions of dollars in risky assets.
2011 - Yemen's authoritarian President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to step down amid a fierce uprising to oust him after 33 years in power.
2012 - Actor Larry Hagman, best known for playing the scheming oil baron J.R. Ewing on TV’s “Dallas,” died in Dallas at age 81.
2020 - The federal government recognized Joe Biden as the "apparent winner" of the Nov. 3 election, formally starting the transition of power; President Donald Trump still refused to concede and vowed to continue a court fight.
2021 - A federal jury in Cleveland found that CVS, Walgreens and Walmart pharmacies recklessly distributed massive amounts of pain pills in two Ohio counties. (A judge awarded $650 million in damages.)
Birthdays
21 - Olivia Keville (actress)
27 - Lia Marie Johnson (actress)
31 - Miley Cyrus (actress/singer)
36 - Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi (reality star)
39 - Lucas Grabeel (actor)
44 - Kelly Brook (actress)
47 - Page Kennedy (actor)
53 - Zoe Ball (TV host)
56 - Salli Richardson-Whitfield (actress)
63 - Robin Roberts (TV host)
63 - John Henton (actor)
64 - Maxwell Caulfield (actor)
69 - Bruce Hornsby (singer)
76 - Bruce Vilanch (actor/comedian)
82 - Franco Nero (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 23
1943 - Philadelphia Phillies owner William D. Cox is permanently banned from baseball for betting on his own team.
1947 - Washington Redskins quarterback Sammy Baugh throws six touchdown passes in a 45-21 win over the Chicago Cardinals.
1965 - USC running back Mike Garrett wins the Heisman Trophy.
1971 - The Washington Senators announced that they would now use the name Texas Rangers after their move to Arlington, TX.
1984 - Boston College defeated Miami 47-45 on quarterback Doug Flutie's iconic last-second 64-yard Hail Mary touchdown pass.
1988 - Wayne Gretzky scored his 600th National Hockey League goal.
1991 - BYU quarterback Ty Detmer finishes his NCAA career with a single-season record 4,031 passing yards and 15,031 yards for his career.
1991 - The Sacramento Kings ended the NBA's longest road losing streak at 43 games.
2018 - Phil Mickelson claims a $9 million winner-take-all prize in a dramatic match-play golf duel with Tiger Woods, finishing under the floodlights in Las Vegas; the match goes to a 22nd hole before Mickelson claimed victory.
2022 - The Middle East's first World Cup opened in Qatar. Ecuador beat the host country 2-0 in the opening match.
1889 - The first jukebox was installed at the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco.
1936 - The first issue of "Life" magazine hit the newsstands. The cover photograph, by Margaret Bourke-White, featured the Fort Peck Dam.
1945 - U.S. wartime food rationing of meat, butter and other foods, ended.
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 at 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 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.
2006 - Former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko died in London from radiation poisoning after making a deathbed statement blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin.
2008 - The government unveiled a bold plan to rescue Citigroup, injecting a fresh $20 billion into the troubled firm as well as guaranteeing hundreds of billions of dollars in risky assets.
2011 - Yemen's authoritarian President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to step down amid a fierce uprising to oust him after 33 years in power.
2012 - Actor Larry Hagman, best known for playing the scheming oil baron J.R. Ewing on TV’s “Dallas,” died in Dallas at age 81.
2020 - The federal government recognized Joe Biden as the "apparent winner" of the Nov. 3 election, formally starting the transition of power; President Donald Trump still refused to concede and vowed to continue a court fight.
2021 - A federal jury in Cleveland found that CVS, Walgreens and Walmart pharmacies recklessly distributed massive amounts of pain pills in two Ohio counties. (A judge awarded $650 million in damages.)
Birthdays
21 - Olivia Keville (actress)
27 - Lia Marie Johnson (actress)
31 - Miley Cyrus (actress/singer)
36 - Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi (reality star)
39 - Lucas Grabeel (actor)
44 - Kelly Brook (actress)
47 - Page Kennedy (actor)
53 - Zoe Ball (TV host)
56 - Salli Richardson-Whitfield (actress)
63 - Robin Roberts (TV host)
63 - John Henton (actor)
64 - Maxwell Caulfield (actor)
69 - Bruce Hornsby (singer)
76 - Bruce Vilanch (actor/comedian)
82 - Franco Nero (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 23
1943 - Philadelphia Phillies owner William D. Cox is permanently banned from baseball for betting on his own team.
1947 - Washington Redskins quarterback Sammy Baugh throws six touchdown passes in a 45-21 win over the Chicago Cardinals.
1965 - USC running back Mike Garrett wins the Heisman Trophy.
1971 - The Washington Senators announced that they would now use the name Texas Rangers after their move to Arlington, TX.
1984 - Boston College defeated Miami 47-45 on quarterback Doug Flutie's iconic last-second 64-yard Hail Mary touchdown pass.
1988 - Wayne Gretzky scored his 600th National Hockey League goal.
1991 - BYU quarterback Ty Detmer finishes his NCAA career with a single-season record 4,031 passing yards and 15,031 yards for his career.
1991 - The Sacramento Kings ended the NBA's longest road losing streak at 43 games.
2018 - Phil Mickelson claims a $9 million winner-take-all prize in a dramatic match-play golf duel with Tiger Woods, finishing under the floodlights in Las Vegas; the match goes to a 22nd hole before Mickelson claimed victory.
2022 - The Middle East's first World Cup opened in Qatar. Ecuador beat the host country 2-0 in the opening match.