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This Weekend In History
November 26, 1942 The film classic Casablanca premieres. It starred Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.Bogart’s character Rick never says the famous line. “Play it again, Sam.” There is the following exchange though:Rick: You know what I want to hear.Sam: No, I don’t.Rick: You played it for her, you can play it for me!Sam: Well, I don’t think I can remember…Rick:…
On This Day…
November 24, 1963 John F. Kennedy‘s assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is shot and mortally wounded by Jack Ruby as he was being led through the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters. Oswald had shot and killed U.S. President John F. Kennedy two days earlier.
On This Day…
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…
On This Day…
November 22, 1963 U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald. Texas Governor John Connally, and a bystander were also wounded in the attack.