November 23: This Day in History

Today in History Featured Fact, 1936:
Life magazine is published. The cover of the famous magazine showed an obstetrician slapping a baby with the caption reading, "LIFE begins".

Also Today:
1889: The first jukebox is installed at the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco.
1971: The People's Republic of China is seated at the U.N. Security Council.
1973: Representative Yvonne Watson Braithwaite Burke, a Democrat from California, gives birth to a daughter, becoming the first member of Congress to give birth while in office.

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