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| The first jukebox |
NOVEMBER 23
1899:Louis Glass and William Arnold install the "Nickel-in-the-Slot," the
first modern jukebox, at the Palais Royale Hotel in San Francisco,
allowing patrons to play songs off an Edison phonograph for a nickel each.
1936: Margaret Bourke-White's photograph of the Fort Peck Dam is the first cover photo for Life, a pictorial magazine created by publisher Henry Luce. The first issue hits newsstands across the United States on this day.
2005: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is confirmed by the National
Elections Commission as the winner of Liberia's presidential elections,
becoming the first female head of state of a modern African nation.
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