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Birthday November 25, 1835 Andrew Carnegie, steel industrialist, library builder |
Birthday November 25, 1846 Carry Nation, scourge of barkeepers and drinkers |
Birthday November 25, 1881 John XXIII, 261st pope (1958-63), (Angelo Roncalli) near Bergamo, It |
Birthday November 25, 1896 Virgil Thomson, Composer and music critic |
Birthday November 25, 1914 Joe DiMaggio, Yankee Clipper |
Birthday November 25, 1920 Ricardo Montalban, Welcome to Fantasy Island, Khan |
Birthday November 25, 1933 Kathryn Grant Crosby, in Houston |
Birthday November 25, 1933 Lenny Moore, NFL back (Baltimore Colts) |
Birthday November 25, 1937 John Larroquette |
Birthday November 25, 1939 Martin Feldstein, economist |
Birthday November 25, 1940 Tina Turner, in Brownsville Tx |
Birthday November 25, 1951 Charlaine Harris, author of Sookie Stackhouse books, is born |
Birthday November 25, 1960 John F. Kennedy Jr |
Birthday November 25, 1966 Stacy Lattislaw |
History November 25, 1758 Britain captures Ft Duquesne (Pittsburgh) |
History November 25, 1783 Last British soldiers leave New York |
History November 25, 1783 Britain evacuated NY their last military position in US |
History November 25, 1783 Last British soldiers leave New York |
History November 25, 1863 Battle of Missionary Ridge |
History November 25, 1867 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite |
History November 25, 1876 U.S. Army retaliates for the Little Bighorn massacre |
History November 25, 1884 John B Meyenberg of St Louis patented evaporated milk |
History November 25, 1885 VP Thomas A Hendricks died at 66 8 months after taking office |
History November 25, 1918 German commander in East Africa surrenders |
History November 25, 1920 WTAW of College Station Tx broadcast 1st football play-by-play |
History November 25, 1921 Nathanael West flunks out of Tufts |
History November 25, 1933 1st Soviet liquid rocket attains altitude of 261 ft |
History November 25, 1941 A war warning is sent to commanders in the Pacific |
History November 25, 1947 London Council of Foreign Ministers meeting begins |
History November 25, 1948 Ft Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed |
History November 25, 1950 Storm of the century hits eastern U.S. |
History November 25, 1952 Agatha Christie’s long-running play The Mousetrap opens |
History November 25, 1952 Agatha Christie's "Mouse Trap" opens in London |
History November 25, 1957 Pres Eisenhower suffered a slight stroke |
History November 25, 1960 1st atomic reactor for research & development Richland Wa |
History November 25, 1963 JFK buried at Arlington National Cemetery |
History November 25, 1963 Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington |
History November 25, 1967 Catholic official reports support provided to North Vietnam |
History November 25, 1969 Communist activity increases along Cambodian border |
History November 25, 1970 Mishima commits ritual suicide |
History November 25, 1973 Greek Pres George Papadopoulos ousted in a bloodless military coup |
History November 25, 1974 UN Secretary-General U Thant dies in NY of cancer at 65 |
History November 25, 1974 Singer-songwriter Nick Drake dies |
History November 25, 1975 Netherlands grants Surinam independence (Natl Day) |
History November 25, 1976 O.J. Simpson gains 273 yards for Buffalo vs. Det |
History November 25, 1980 Sugar Ray takes his title back |
History November 25, 1980 Sugar Ray Leonard regains WBC welterweight championship |
History November 25, 1983 Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth 149 days after take-off |
History November 25, 1984 William Schroeder becomes 2nd to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart |
History November 25, 1986 Iran-Contra connection revealed |
History November 25, 1990 Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge sinks to the bottom of Lake Washington |
History November 25, 1999 International day to eliminate violence against women |