November 23 - National Eat A Cranberry Day, Doctor Who Day, International Image Consultant Day & Mother Goose Day. 534 BC – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage. 1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship. 1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. 1924 – Edwin Hubbles scientific discovery that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula within our galaxy, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe, was first published in a newspaper. 1963 – The BBC broadcasts the first episode of Doctor Who (starring William Hartnell), which is now the worlds longest running science fiction drama. 1980 – A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 3,000 people. 1992 – The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. 2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country. 2011 – Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 08:19:58 +0000