Fort Peck Dam’s spillway on cover of Life magazine first edition

Tuesday, November 23

The 327th day of the year 38 days left

Today in history

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

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 …