NOVEMBER 23
1958: Future President Ronald Reagan and future first lady Nancy Davis Reagan star together in the coincidentally titled A Turkey for the President, a GE Theater television production.
1963: William Hartnell stars as the time- and space-traveling Doctor in the premiere of the science fiction series Doctor Who on the BBC. The show is still on the air as the longest-running science fiction program in broadcast history, with Matt Smith as the 11th and newest actor to play the Doctor.
1976: Jacques Mayol becomes the first man to dive without equipment to a depth of 100 meters below the ocean surface, off the coast of Elba, Italy.
2005:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf elected president of Liberia; first woman leading African country.
1889:The first jukebox goes into operation in San Francisco - it would later become a national phenomenon.
1936:Henry Luce, publisher of "Time" & "Fortune magazines, launches magazine "Life"
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