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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 23, 2022

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  • Published Nov 22, 2022 1:21 pm KST
  • Updated Nov 22, 2022 1:21 pm KST

1863 - Battle of Chattanooga in U.S. Civil War begins

1863 - Patent granted for a process of making color photographs

1876 - Columbia, Harvard and Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association

1899 - First jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco)

1903 - Enrico Caruso's U.S. debut (Metropolitan Opera House, NY) in "Rigoletto"

1905 - Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physician, named minister of Haiti

1936 - First issue of Life, a picture magazine created by Henry R. Luce

1943 ― U.S. forces seized control of Tarawa and Makin from Japanese

1963 - JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House

1971 - People's Republic of China seated in U.N. Security Council

1980 - 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy

1985 - 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijacked Egyptair jet in Malta

1985 - Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested over spying for China

1988 - South African President Botha reprieves Sharpeville Six

1989 - Pilots Union gives up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines