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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Nov. 23, 1936, Life, the photojournalism magazine created by Henry R. Luce (loos), was first published.
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• On this date:
• In 1765, Frederick County, Md. became the first colonial entity to repudiate the British Stamp Act.
• In 1804, the 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce (puhrs), was born in Hillsboro, N.H.
• In 1889, the first jukebox made its debut in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon.
• In 1903, Enrico Caruso made his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, appearing in "Rigoletto."
• In 1910, American-born physician Hawley Harvey Crippen was hanged at Pentonville Prison in London for murdering his wife, Cora. (Crippen's mistress, Ethel Le Neve, was acquitted in a separate trial of being an accessory.)
• In 1943, during World War II, U.S. forces seized control of Tarawa and Makin (MAH'-kihn) atolls from the Japanese.
• In 1959, the musical "Fiorello!," starring Tom Bosley as legendary New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, opened on Broadway.
• In 1963, the classic British science-fiction series "Doctor Who" premiered on BBC Television, starring William Hartnell as the first incarnation of the time-traveling title character.
• In 1971, the People's Republic of China was seated in the U.N. Security Council.
• In 1980, some 2,600 people were killed by a series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy.
• In 1996, a commandeered Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the water off the Comoros Islands, killing 125 of the 175 people on board, including all three hijackers.
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• Ten years ago: Five U.S. soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. Eduard Shevardnadze (sheh-vahrd-NAHD'-zeh) resigned as president of Georgia in the face of protests.
• Five years ago: The government unveiled a bold plan to rescue Citigroup, injecting a fresh $20 billion into the troubled firm as well as guaranteeing hundreds of billions of dollars in risky assets. A gunman shot and killed a woman and a man who came to her aid inside a church in Clifton, N.J. (Suspect Joseph Pallipurath (PAL'-

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