What happened today, and who was born/died

BIRTHS
11/23/1804	Franklin Pierce, 14th President (1853-1857)
11/23/1859	Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney), outlaw
11/23/1860	Karl Branting, Swedish statesman, diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 192
11/23/1887	Boris Karloff, bogeyman (Frankenstein, Isle of the Dead)
EVENTS
11/23/1852	Just past midnight an earthquake makes Lake Merced drop 30 feet
11/23/1863	Patent granted for a process of making color photographs.
11/23/1948	Lens to provide zoom effects patented - FG Back
11/23/1948	a patent is granted for the first zoom lens to F.G. Back

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