THIS DAY IN HISTORY NOV 23
Entertainment: 100 years ago
1903:
Opera tenor Enrico Caruso makes his American debut.
Source:
http://www.ecm-inc.com/news/milaca/
News:
50 years ago
1953: On the night of November 23, 1953, an
Air Defense Command radar detected an unidentified "target" over Lake
Superior.
Source:
http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/kinross.htm
News: 25
years ago
1978: A
Birmingham nightclub is ordered to
open its doors to black and Chinese people - but says it will ignore the
ruling.
Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/
november/23/default.stm
Inventions:
10 years ago
1993: Brothella Quick, an African American women invented the
pocketed underwear.
Source:
http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~rlandrum/aawomen.htm
News:
5 years ago
1998:
President Clinton signed the "Apology Bill" for the United States'
participation in the illegal overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii 100 years
earlier.
Source:
http://www.alohaquest.com/pdf/US_Public_Law_103-150.pdf
News: 1 year
ago
2002 :
Miss World organizers cancel the controversial beauty pageant that has
sparked violence among Christians and Muslims in Nigeria.
Source :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/23/default.stm
Religion:
1654: French scientist and mathematician
Blaise Pascal experiences a mystical vision and converts to Christianity.
The creator of the first wristwatch, the first bus route, the first
workable calculating machine, and other inventions then turned his life to
theology.
Source:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/features/twich/48.html
Inventions:
1863:
Patent granted for a process of making color
photographs.
Source:
http://www.scopesys.com/cgi/today2.cgi
Sports:
1887
Notre Dame loses its 1st football game 8-0 to
Michigan.
Source:
http://www.scopesys.com/cgi/today2.cgi
Compiled by
Ramesh C. Reddy
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