Tuesday, November 23, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

NOVEMBER 23
1964:Dr. Michael E. DeBakey performs the first successful coronary artery bypass graft. Another physician had performed the operation two years earlier, but the patient died within three days; DeBakey’s patient will live another 24 years.

1963: Doctor Who, the longest-running science fiction television show in history, is broadcast for the first time by the British Broadcasting Corporation, starring William Hartnell as the mysterious extraterrestrial doctor.

1936: Life, a pictorial magazine created by Time publisher Henry Luce, hits newsstands across the United States. The first issue’s cover features a Margaret Bourke-White photograph of Montana’s Fort Peck Dam.

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