This Day In History — First Jukebox installed

November 23

1889
The first jukebox was installed at the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco.

1936
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.

1971
People’s Republic of China was seated at the UN Security Council.

2003
Eduard Shevardnadze resigned as president of Georgia.

Birthdays

Franklin Pierce
1804–1869, 14th President of the United States

John Wallis
mathematician (1616)

William H. Bonney
outlaw A.K.A. Billie The Kid (1859)

Manuel de Falla
composer (1876)

Boris Karloff
actor (1887)

Miley Cyrus
actor (1992)

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