November 23

Today in History
• 1765 - People of Frederick County, Maryland, refuse to pay British Stamp tax
• 1835 - Henry Burden patents horseshoe manufacturing machine (Troy, NY)
• 1863 - Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
• 1869 - The clipper Cutty Sark is launched In Dumbarton, Scotland
• 1876 - Columbia, Harvard and Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association
• 1889 - Debut of 1st jukebox (Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco)
• 1897 - Inventor Andrew Jackson Beard invents the "jerry coupler" to connect railroad cars
• 1897 - Portable pencil sharpener patented by American inventor John Lee Love


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Fibonacci Day
• Labor Appreciation Day
• Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
• National Dog Show Broadcast
• National Espresso Day
• National Family Health History Day
• Thanksgiving
• Wolfenoot

Birthdays
• 912 - Otto I, the Great, German king, Holy Roman emperor, 962-73
• 1221 - Alfonso X, the Wise, king of Castile and Leon, 1252-84
• 1669 - Johann K. Amman, Swiss-Dutch deaf-mute teacher (Surdus Loquens)
• 1749 - Edward Rutledge, Gov-SC, attorney/signer Declaration of Independence
• 1785 - Joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch general of the Jesuits, 1829-53
• 1804 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (Democrat: 1853-57)
• 1815 - William Dennison, American politician (US postmaster general, Governor of Ohio)
• 1837 - John van der Waals, Hol, physicist, Nobel 1910, Liquid and Gas States