PHHi mga ka-ph! Events happened this day but in different timelines. Enjoy!
First Smartphone
November 23, 1992
IBM debuts the "Angler" at the COMDEX trade show. It combined a mobile phone and PDA allowing the user to make and receive telephone calls, facsimiles, emails and pages. It also included a calendar, address book, notepad, maps, stocks, and news. It became publicly available two years later as the "Simon Personal Communicator."
Life magazine
November 23, 1936
First issue of Life magazine by Henry Luce. It was America's first all-photographic news magazine. Life magazine existed as a humor magazine since 1883 until Luce purchased it for the rights to the name and turned it into a photographic news magazine.
Flight 961 Hijacking
November 23, 1996
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi by three Ethiopians seeking asylum in Australia. The plane crashed into the Indian Ocean when it ran out of fuel. 125 of the 175 passengers and crew died, including the hijackers.
Shakespeare
November 23, 1985
A previously unknown poem by William Shakespeare is discovered in the Oxford University library by an American scholar. It was written around 1594.
First Jukebox
November 23, 1889
The first jukebox is installed, in San Francisco.
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First Smartphone
November 23, 1992
IBM debuts the "Angler" at the COMDEX trade show. It combined a mobile phone and PDA allowing the user to make and receive telephone calls, facsimiles, emails and pages. It also included a calendar, address book, notepad, maps, stocks, and news. It became publicly available two years later as the "Simon Personal Communicator."
Life magazine
November 23, 1936
First issue of Life magazine by Henry Luce. It was America's first all-photographic news magazine. Life magazine existed as a humor magazine since 1883 until Luce purchased it for the rights to the name and turned it into a photographic news magazine.
Flight 961 Hijacking
November 23, 1996
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi by three Ethiopians seeking asylum in Australia. The plane crashed into the Indian Ocean when it ran out of fuel. 125 of the 175 passengers and crew died, including the hijackers.
Shakespeare
November 23, 1985
A previously unknown poem by William Shakespeare is discovered in the Oxford University library by an American scholar. It was written around 1594.
First Jukebox
November 23, 1889
The first jukebox is installed, in San Francisco.
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