On December 10, 1690, a failed attack on Quebec and subsequent
near-mutiny force the Massachusetts Bay Colony to issue the
first paper currency in the history of the Western Hemisphere.

On November 30, 1876, Yale defeated Princeton, 2-0, in
Hoboken, New Jersey in the first collegiate football game
played on Thanksgiving. Nearly 1,000 fans attend the
game, played in cold, rainy weather.

The football was oval and made of leather, the New York
Times noted, "similar to those used in Rugby Union rules."

The game resembled rugby more than a present-day football
game.

First Yale team playing under American intercollegiate
football rules. This team beat Harvard in the fall of ’76.”

On November 23, 1936, the first issue of the pictorial magazine
Life was published, featuring a cover photo of the Fort Peck
Dam’s spillway by Margaret Bourke-White.

Life actually had its start earlier in the 20th century as a different
kind of magazine: a weekly humor publication, not unlike today’s
The New Yorker in its use of tart cartoons, humorous pieces and
cultural reporting.

When the original Life folded during the Great Depression, the
influential American publisher Henry Luce bought the name and
re-launched the magazine as a picture-based periodical on this
day in 1936.

Henry Robinson Luce (1898 – 1967)

This 2012 photo shows the Fort Peck Dam spillway in
northeast Montana.

On this day in1877, the publication Scientific American
enthuses about Thomas Edison‘s new invention: the
phonograph, a way to record and play back sound.

Calling it a "wonderful invention," the article describes
the machine’s capability: "…whoever has spoken or
whoever may speak into the mouthpiece of the phonograph,
and whose words are recorded by it, has the assurance that
his speech may be reproduced audibly in his own tones long
after he himself has turned to dust.

Taxi Driver (1974

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is a actress and filmmaker who 
has received numerous accolades, including two Academy
Awards, three BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards
and a Primetime Emmy Award. She was also honored with
the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2013 and the
Honorary Palme d’Or in 2021.

Foster began her professional career as a child model and
later gained recognition as a teen idol through various
Disney films.       
       
Jodie Foster’s early film work includes the Raquel Welch
vehicle Kansas City Bomber (1972) filmed in Portland,
Oregon. Foster played Rita in her second appearance
in a feature film.

1988

Foster made her directorial debut
with this 1991 film.

2005

2007