It's also the anniversary of the first-ever episode of Doctor Who...
• Doctor Who made its debut on British television on this day in 1963. Who's your favourite Doctor?
If we're doing this we should definitely tag their social accounts as well, they've got a pretty on-the-button social media team if memory serves...
Random factoid, it was marred by JFK's assassination the previous day. Thankfully, a certain nemesis's introduction in the next episode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daleks made up for that.
Joe
On 23 November 2015 at 00:48, James Alexander jalexander@wikimedia.org wrote:
It can't be that famous, it doesn't have a WP article ;) /ducks/
[I see mention of it/the first jukebox on the articles for 1889 and Nov 23 but no sources ;) I feel like this is asking for a Wikipedian investigation I don't have quite the time to do 'tonight'...]
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On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Well I mean I have no idea if that saloon is famous or not. :)
On 23 November 2015 at 00:25, Heather Walls hwalls@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Joe Sutherland < jsutherland@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'm not sure what the first one's saying. Was that the first-ever jukebox, or the first-ever jukebox at that particular venue?
I'm gonna guess the first because who cares about the second?
On 22 November 2015 at 23:23, Katherine Maher kmaher@wikimedia.org wrote:
Lgtm
On Sunday, November 22, 2015, Jeff Elder jelder@wikimedia.org wrote:
On this day in 1889, the first jukebox played at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. (pic)
On this day in 1992, the first smartphone, the IBM Simon, was introduced at a Las Vegas trade show. (pic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon
On this day in 1976, Jacques Mayol became the first person to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Mayol
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