Today is Monday, November 23, the 327th day of 2009. There are 38 days left in the year.
1835 _ Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine, Troy, N.Y.
1863 _ Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
1899 _ First jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco)
1903 _ Enrico Caruso U.S. debut (Metropolitan Opera House, N.Y.) in ``Rigoletto"
1936 _ first issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R. Luce
1963 _ JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House
1971 _ China People's Republic seated in U.N. Security Council
1980 _ 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy
1988 _ Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal
1989 _ Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines