Today is Wednesday, November 23, the 327th day of 2011. There are 38 days left in the year.
1852 ― Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet (9m)
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
1942 ― Steward Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat was torpedoed
1963 ― JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House
1971 ― China People's Republic seated in U.N. Security Council
1985 ― Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China
1988 ― Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal