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Today in History ~ November 25
International day to eliminate violence against women
Events1357 - Charles IV issues letter of protection of Jews of Strasbourg Alsace
1500 - Governor De Bobadilla of Santo Domingo captures Columbus
1688 - Princess Anne flies from London to Nottingham
1715 - 1st English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
1744 - Austrian forces pillage & kill Jews of Prague
1758 - Britain capture Ft Duquesne (Pittsburgh) from French
1766 - Pope Clement XIII warns On dangers of anti-Christian writings
1783 - Britain evacuates NYC, their last military position in US
1792 - Farmer's Almanac 1st published
1834 - Delmonico's, one of NY's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee & half a pie for 12 cents
1841 - 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa
1847 - Friederich von Flotow's opera "Martha" is produced (Vienna)
1863 - Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee
1864 - Confederate plot to burn NYC, fails
1864 - Confederate retreat at Sandersville, Georgia
1867 - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
1867 - US Congress commission looks into impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
1884 - John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
1897 - Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy
1902 - Franz Lehar's opera "Wiener Fraueen," premieres in Vienna
1805 - Jules Massenet's opera "Thais" 1st American performance
1912 - American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Ill
1920 - 1st Thanksgiving Parade (Phila)
1922 - Archaeologist Howard Carter enters King Tut's tomb
1940 - Patria, carrying illegal immigrants, sinks in port of Haifa, 200 die
1940 - Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock"
1941 - German Jews in Netherlands declared stateless (loss of nationality)
1943 - U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1949 - "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" appears on music charts, originally a advertising jingle
1950 - UN gives Eritrea to Ethiopia
1952 - George Meany appointed as chairman of AFL
1952 - "The Mousetrap," a murder-mystery written by the novelist and playwright Agatha Christie, opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. [H]
1953 - "Guys & Dolls" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1200 performances
1955 - Race segregation forbidden on trains & buses between US states
1957 - Pres Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
1960 - "Amos 'n' Andy" made its last broadcast on CBS radio
1960 - CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr Malone & 2nd Mrs Burton) and cancels 4 other series
1963 - JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
1965 - Congo milt coup under Gen Mobutu, Pres Kasavubu overthrown
1969 - John Lennon returns OBE to protest UK's support for Vietnam War
1973 - 3 Palestinians hijack KLM B747 above Iraq, to Dubai
1973 - Bloodless military coup ousts Greek Pres George Papadopoulos
1973 - Maximum speed limit cut to 55 MPH as an energy conservation measure
1974 - Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21
1979 - American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275
1979 - Israel returns Alma oilfields in Gulf of Suez to Egypt
1983 - Syria & Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli
1983 - World's greatest robbery -- $25,000,000 of gold, Heathrow, England
1984 - William Schroeder, is 2nd to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart
1986 - Iran-Contra affair erupts, Pres Reagan reveals secret arm deal
1986 - Oliver North's sect, Fawn Hill, smuggles documents out of his office
1990 - Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election
1999 - International day to eliminate violence against women [H]
Birthdays Today
1562 - Lope Felix de Vega, Madrid Spain, dramatist/poet (Angelica, Arcadia)
1752 - Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer
1787 - Franz Xavier Gruber, Austria, organist/composer (Silent Night)
1834 - Jean-Baptist Colyns, composer
1835 - Andrew Carnegie (philanthropist and industrialist: pronounced kar-nay'-ge in SW Pennsylvania, where he founded U.S. Steel)
1844 - Karl F Benz, German designer/auto manufacturer (4-taktmotor)
1881 - John XXIII, [Angelo Roncalli], Bergamo Italy, 261st pope (1958-63)
1893 - Joseph W Krutch, US naturalist (Was Europe a Success?)
1895 - Wilhelm Kempff, Juterbog Germany, pianist (Unter dem Zimbelstern)
1896 - Virgil Thomson, KC Mo, composer/music critic (4 Saints in 3 Acts)
1900 - Helen Gahagan Douglas, Nixon's 1st opponent/(Rep-D-Ca)
1912 - Johannes D De Jong, Frisian poet/photographer (Kar £t twa)
1914 - 'Joltin' Joe Dimaggio (Baseball Hall of Famer: New York Yankees: 3-time MVP, unbroken major league record: hit in 56 consecutive games; husband of Marilyn Monroe)
1915 - Augusto Pinochet, general/president (Chile)
1920 - Ricardo Montalban (actor: Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan, Fantasy Island; TV commercials: Chrysler Cordova)
1923 - Art Wall Jr. (golf: Masters Champion [1959])
1925 - Derroll Adams (country singer)
1926 - Murray Schisgal, playwright (Luv)
1926 - Poul [William] Anderson, US, sci-fi author (7 Hugos, Mirkheim)
1931 - Nat Adderley (jazz musician: trumpet; brother of Cannonball Adderley)
1933 - Kathryn Crosby (Grandstaff) (wife of Bing Crosby)
1938 - Charles Starkwether, murderer (midwest killing spree)
1944 - Bob Lind (singer: Elusive Butterfly)
1944 - Bob Matheson (football: Miami Dolphins LB: Super Bowl XI, XII, XIII)
1945 - George Webster (football)
1947 - John Larroquette (actor: Night Court, The John Larroquette Show)
1949 - [Boris] Alexander Godunov, Sakhalin USSR, dancer/actor (Die Hard)
1951 - (Russell) 'Bucky' Dent (baseball: NY Yankees manager and player [shortstop])
1960 - John F. Kennedy Jr. (John-John; attorney; co-founder: George magazine; son of U.S. President John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy)
1963 - Bernie Kosar (football: Cleveland Browns, Miami Dolphins QB)
1971 - Christina Applegate (actress: Married ...... with Children, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Streets, Wild Bill)
Famous deaths
1120 - Countess of Perche, illegitimate daughter of English king Henry I, drowns
1120 - William, English crown prince/son of Henry I, drowns at 17
1456 - Jacques Coeur, French merchant/banker, dies in battle
1640 - Giles Farnaby, composer, dies
1773 - Carl Hockh, composer, dies at 66
1815 - Johann Peter Saloman, composer, dies at 70
1901 - Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer/music theorist, dies at 62
1949 - Luther "Bill" Robinson, "Bojangles" famed tap dancer, dies at 71
1958 - Charles F Kettering, invented auto self-starter, dies at 82
1968 - Upton B Sinclair, US author (Jungle), dies at 90
1970 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese author/nationalist (Harakiri), dies at 45
1973 - Laurence Harvey, actor (Of Human Bondage), dies of cancer at 45
1974 - [Sithu] U Thant, UN Sec-General (1961-72), dies in NY of cancer at 65
1980 - George Raft, NYC, actor (Scarface), dies at 85
1987 - Harold Washington, 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87), dies at 65
1993 - Anthony Burgess, novelist (Clockwork Orange), dies of cancer at 76
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