November 23 Birthday
On November 23, 1936, the first issue of Life magazine was published. It featured a photo essay on Fort Peck Dam in Montana. The cover photograph, by Margaret Bourke-White, showed the dam at night. Life became the defining magazine of the photo essay era. At its peak in the late 1940s, it had a circulation of 13.5 million. It covered wars, elections, cultural movements, and ordinary lives. It published the first photographs of the Vietnam War. It ceased weekly publication in 1972. Doctor Who premiered on November 23, 1963, on BBC One. The first episode aired the day after JFK's assassination and was watched by a small audience, as news coverage of the assassination dominated the schedule. The show has run for sixty years, generated over 800 episodes, and has been exported to sixty countries. The Daleks, introduced in the second serial, made the show a national phenomenon in Britain. People born on November 23 fall under the zodiac sign of Sagittarius. The birthstone is Topaz and the birth flower is Chrysanthemum. Historical events on November 23 include 1936: First issue of Life magazine published, 1963: Doctor Who premieres on BBC television, 1980: Earthquake in southern Italy (6.5) kills 3,000. Famous people born on November 23 include Franklin Pierce (1804), Boris Karloff (1887), Miley Cyrus (1992).