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Nov 25, 1963: JFK buried at Arlington National Cemetery .
Three days after his assassination in Dallas, Texas, John F. Kennedy is laid to rest with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was shot to death while riding in an open-car motorcade with his wife and Texas Governor John Connally through the streets of downtown Dallas. Ex-Marine and communist sympathizer Lee Harvey Oswald was the alleged assassin. Kennedy was rushed to Dallas' Parkland Hospital, where he was pronounced dead 30 minutes later. He was 46.
Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who was three cars behind President Kennedy in the motorcade, was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States less than two hours later. He took the presidential oath of office aboard Air Force One as it sat on the runway at Dallas Love Field airport. The swearing in was witnessed by some 30 people, including Jacqueline Kennedy, who was still wearing clothes stained with her husband's blood. Seven minutes later, the presidential jet took off for Washington.
The next day, November 23, President Johnson issued his first proclamation, declaring November 25 to be a day of national mourning for the slain president. On that day, hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Washington to watch a horse-drawn caisson bear Kennedy's body from the Capitol Rotunda to St. Matthew's Catholic Cathedral for a requiem Mass. The solemn procession then continued on to Arlington National Cemetery, where leaders of 99 nations gathered for the state funeral. Kennedy was buried with full military honors on a slope below Arlington House, where an eternal flame was lit by his widow to forever mark the grave.
Nov 25, 1876: U.S. Army retaliates for the Little Bighorn massacre
U.S. troops under the leadership of General Ranald Mackenzie destroy the village of Cheyenne living with Chief Dull Knife on the headwaters of the Powder River. The attack was in retaliation against some of the Indians who had participated in the massacre of Custer and his men at Little Bighorn.
Although the Sioux and Cheyenne won one of their greatest victories at Little Bighorn, the battle actually marked the beginning of the end of their ability to resist the U.S. government. News of the massacre of Custer and his men reached the East Coast in the midst of nationwide centennial celebrations on July 4, 1876. Outraged at the killing of one of their most popular Civil War heroes, many Americans demanded an intensified military campaign against the offending Indians.
The government responded by sending one of its most successful Indian fighters to the region, General Ranald Mackenzie, who had previously been the scourge of Commanche and Kiowa Indians in Texas. Mackenzie led an expeditionary force up the Powder River in central Wyoming, where he located a village of Cheyenne living with Chief Dull Knife. Although Dull Knife himself does not appear to have been involved in the battle at Little Bighorn, there is no question that many of his people were, including one of his sons.
At dawn, Mackenzie and over 1,000 soldiers and 400 Indian scouts opened fire on the sleeping village, killing many Indians within the first few minutes. Some of the Cheyenne, though, managed to run into the surrounding hills. They watched as the soldiers burned more than 200 lodges-containing all their winter food and clothing-and then cut the throats of their ponies. When the soldiers found souvenirs taken by the Cheyenne from soldiers they had killed at Little Bighorn, the assailants felt justified in their attack.
The surviving Cheyenne, many of them half-naked, began an 11-day walk north to the Tongue River where Crazy Horse's camp of Oglalas took them in. However, many of the small children and old people did not survive the frigid journey. Devastated by his losses, the next spring Dull Knife convinced the remaining Cheyenne to surrender. The army sent them South to Indian Territory, where other defeated survivors of the final years of the Plains Indian wars soon joined them.
Nov 25, 1918: German commander in East Africa surrenders
On this day in 1918, a full two weeks after an armistice ended World War I in Europe, Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck of Germany finally surrenders his forces in German East Africa.
A master of guerrilla warfare known for his brave and honorable conduct, Lettow-Vorbeck emerged from the First World War as the only undefeated military commander on either side of the conflict. From the beginning, the colonel knew the British navy's dominance of the seas meant that few reinforcements would be sent from his homeland and, as a result, that the German war effort in its African colonies would have to be carried out on his own initiative.
In classic Prussian fashion, Lettow-Vorbeck organized his African soldiers—called askaris—into independent field companies and trained them in the skills of bush fighting. With successful raids against the British colonies of Kenya and Rhodesia, the confidence of Lettow-Vorbeck's troops only continued to rise. Meanwhile, on the British side, consistently confused command and lack of cooperation between army and navy forces—as well as a decision not to divert any resources from the Western Front for the campaign in Africa—contributed to a string of failed amphibious expeditions along the coast of East Africa, from Uganda to the Zambezi River.
With a force that never exceeded 14,000--including 3,000 German and 11,000 askari troops--Lettow-Vorbeck managed to consistently defeat Allied forces (mostly British and South African) of 10 times that number. In November 1918, when World War I ended, Lettow-Vorbeck was alive and well, with 3,000 soldiers at his command. He chose to surrender at Mbaala, Zambia, on November 25, 1918, returning to Germany, where he was greeted as a national hero.
Immediately following the war, Lettow-Vorbeck joined the Freikorps, the military police force, helping to squelch the radical socialist Spartacist uprising in early 1919. The following year, however, he was forced to resign from the army after supporting the failed right-wing Kapp Putsch against the Weimar government. After publishing his memoirs, called My Reminiscences of East Africa, he returned to public life, serving as a deputy in the German Reichstag from May 1929 until July 1930. During the subsequent years, Lettow-Vorbeck unsuccessfully attempted to establish a conservative opposition to Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist Party. By the end of World War II, the former hero was living in poverty. In a testament to his greatness, a group of former South African and British officers led by his former nemesis, the South African leader Jan Smuts, arranged for a small pension to be paid him until his death, on March 9, 1964.
Nov 25, 1950: Storm of the century hits eastern U.S
The so-called "storm of the century" hits the eastern part of the United States, killing hundreds and causing millions of dollars in damages, on this day in 1950. Also known as the "Appalachian Storm," it dumped record amounts of snow in parts of the Appalachian Mountains.
Forming over North Carolina just before Thanksgiving, the storm quickly moved north, striking western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia. These areas were blanketed with several feet of snow for several days and travel was impossible for nearly a week in some places.
An accompanying windstorm covered a far greater area. New York City recorded a 94 mile-per-hour wind gust. At Bear Mountain, just north of the city, a 140 mph gust was recorded. The winds throughout New England were of hurricane-like force. In addition, high tides and wind-driven surf battered the coastline. On the south edge of the storm, record low temperatures were recorded in Tennessee and North Carolina even without the wind chill. In Mount Mitchell, North Carolina, a temperature of 26 degrees below zero was recorded.
The storm was unique, however, because it featured not only extremely strong winds and heavy snow, but both record high and low temperatures. In Pittsburgh, 30 inches of snow fell in a blinding snowstorm. Further north, Buffalo saw no snow, but experienced 50 mile-per-hour winds and 50-degree temperatures. Paul Kocin, a Weather Channel expert, has said that this storm "had the greatest contrast of weather elements in probably any storm, including the 1993 March Superstorm."
The extreme weather was deemed responsible for the loss of 160 lives over several days.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
1034 - King Malcolm II of Scotland (Máel Coluim mac
Cináeda), King of Scots dies (b. 980). Donnchad, the son of his second daughter
Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
1165 - RC German emperor Frederik I Barbarossa visits
Utrecht
1177 - Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon
defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
1185 - Pope Lucius III (Ubaldo Allucingoli) reigned 1181-85,
dies and is replaced by Umberto Crivelli (Pope Urban III)
1277 - Giovanni Gaetano Orsini elected as Pope Nicolas III
1357 - Charles IV issues letter of protection of Jews of
Strasbourg Alsace
1491 - The siege of Granada, last Moorish stronghold in
Spain, begins.
1500 - Governor De Bobadilla of Santo Domingo captures
Columbus
1659 - Michiel de Ruyter conquerors Danish city Nyborg
1667 - A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha, in the Caucasus,
killing 80,000 people.
1703 - The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever
recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity
which it maintains through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000
people perish in the mighty gale.
1715 - 1st English patent granted to an American, for
processing corn
1744 - Austrian forces pillage & kill Jews of Prague
1755 - King Ferdinand IV of Spain granted the Beaterio dela
Compania de Jesus or now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the
Virgin Mary(RVM) a royal protection.
1758 - Britain capture Ft Duquesne (later Fort
Pitt/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
1805 - Opera "Thaïs" 1st American performance
Explorer of the New World Christopher ColumbusExplorer of
the New World Christopher Columbus 1817 - 1st sword swallower in US performs
(NYC)
1826 - The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to
become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
1834 - Delmonico's, one of NY's finest restaurants, provides
a meal of soup, steak, coffee & half a pie for 12 cents
1839 - A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot
storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (never to be entirely rebuilt
again). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands
of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
1841 - 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa
1847 - Opera "Marta" 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
1874 - The United States Greenback Party is established as a
political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
1876 - Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat
at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull
Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
1884 - John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
1894 - Greenback (Independent) Party organizes in
Indianapolis
Inventor/Nobel Prize founder Alfred Bernhard
NobelInventor/Nobel Prize founder Alfred Bernhard Nobel 1897 - Spain grants
Puerto Rico autonomy
1899 - Battle at Graspan, Cape colony: General Methuen beats
Farmers
1902 - Franz Lehars opera "Wiener Fraueen"
premieres in Vienna
1908 - Dorando Pietri (It) beats Johnny Hayes (US) in
Madison Square Garden marathon by 60 yds
1911 - 3rd CFL Grey Cup: U of Toronto defeats Toronto
Argonauts, 14-7
1912 - American College of Surgeons incorporates in
Springield, Ill
1912 - Socialist International rejects that world war is
coming
1920 - 1st Thanksgiving Parade (Phila)
1920 - WTAW of College Station, Tx, broadcast 1st football
play-by-play
1922 - Archaeologist Howard Carter enters King Tut's tomb
1922 - Japanese crown prince Hirohito appointed
prince-regent
1925 - KPD proposes German Parliament expropriate possession
of monarchy
1929 - Belgium government Jaspar falls
1930 - 690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day (Ito Japan)
1930 - Sporting News picks Bill Terry as NL MVP & Joe
Cronin as AL MVP
Archaeologist and Discoverer of Tutankhamun Howard
CarterArchaeologist and Discoverer of Tutankhamun Howard Carter 1933 - 1st
Soviet liquid fuel rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m)
1935 - Resident Institution for Social History (IISG) forms
in Amsterdam
1936 - Germany & Japan sign anti-Komintern pact
1937 - World's fair of Paris closes (31.2 million visitors)
1940 - Patria, carrying illegal immigrants, sinks in port of
Haifa, 200 die
1940 - U of Mich retires Tom Harmon's #98
1940 - Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter
Lantz's "Knock Knock"
1940 - First flight of the deHavilland Mosquito and Martin
B-26 Marauder.
1941 - German Jews in Netherlands declared stateless (lose
of nationality)
1941 - Lou Boudreau, 24, becomes Cleveland Indians
player/manager
1941 - Finland joined the Anti-Comintern Pact.
1942 - National Organization for Aid to Underground, LO,
forms
1943 - U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1944 - 32nd CFL Grey Cup: Montreal HMCS defeat Hamilton
Flying Wildcats, 7-6
1944 - World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's
store in Deptford, United Kingdom, killing 160 shoppers.
1947 - New Zealand accedes to Statute of Westminster,
becomes a dominion
1948 - Ft Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed
1948 - KING TV channel 5 in Seattle, WA (NBC) begins
broadcasting
1949 - "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" appears
on music charts
Baseball Player Ted WilliamsBaseball Player Ted Williams
1949 - Ted Williams, wins AL MVP
1950 - "Tickets, Please" closes at Coronet Theater
NYC after 245 performances
1950 - 38th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn
Blue Bombers, 13-0
1950 - UN gives Eritrea to Ethiopia
1951 - 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock Alabama, America
1951 - Cleveland Browns penalized a record 209 yards against
Chicago Bears
1951 - Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie
Schaft forbidden
1952 - George Meany appointed as chairman of AFL
1952 - Only win ever for NFL's Dallas Texans (11-1) beats
Bears 27-23
1953 - "Guys & Dolls" closes at 46th St
Theater NYC after 1200 performances
1953 - Earthquake/tsnunami strike Honshu Japan
1953 - Hungary beats England in soccer match, 6-3
1955 - Race segregation forbidden on trains & buses
between US states
1955 - Walter Piston's 6th Symphony, premieres
1957 - Pres Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his
speech
1958 - Senegal becomes an autonomous state in French
Community
1959 - "Once Upon a Mattress" opens at Alvin
Theater NYC for 460 performances
1960 - "Amos 'n' Andy" made its last broadcast on
CBS radio
1960 - 1st atomic reactor for research & development,
Richland Wa
1960 - CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right
to Happiness, Young Dr Malone & 2nd Mrs Burton) & cancels 4 other
series
1960 - The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are
assassinated.
1961 - NBA's Bob Cousy becomes 2nd player to score 15,000
points
1962 - WBJA (now WMGC) TV channel 34 in Binghamton, NY (ABC)
1st broadcast
US President John F. KennedyUS President John F. Kennedy
1963 - JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
1965 - Congo milt coup under Gen Mobutu, Pres Kasavubu
overthrown
1966 - Cincinnati infielder Tommy Helms is voted NL Rookie
of Year
1966 - Jimi Hendrix Experience makes its London debut at Bag
O' Nails Club
1966 - Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) closes down
(reopen 12/31)
1967 - "Apple Tree" closes at Shubert Theater NYC
after 463 performances
1967 - Puerto Rico placed on Atlantic Standard Time
1969 - John Lennon returns OBE to protest UK's support for
Vietnam War
1969 - KC outfielder Lou Piniella is voted AL Rookie of Year
1970 - Yankees catcher Thurman Munson wins AL Rookie of Year
1970 - In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and two compatriots
commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
1971 - "Dan Cooper" jumps with $200,000 out of
plane over Washington
1971 - 37th Heisman Trophy Award: Pat Sullivan, Auburn (QB)
1972 - "Ambassador" closes at Lunt-Fontanne
Theater NYC after 9 performances
1973 - 3 Palestinians hijack KLM B747 above Iraq, to Dubai
Musician and Beatle John LennonMusician and Beatle John
Lennon 1973 - 61st CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos,
22-18
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
1974 - Rangers' Mike Hargrove wins AL Rookie of Year
1975 - Netherlands grants Suriname independence (Natl Day)
1975 - Portuguese leftist officers occupy 4 airbases
1976 - OJ Simpson gains 273 yards for Buffalo vs Detroit
1976 - The Band's farewell concert at SF's Winterland
Ballroom
1976 - Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove genl
theory of relativity
1977 - David Steed balanced stationary on a bike for 9 hrs
15 mins
1977 - Miss Teenage America Pageant
1977 - Thomas Hearns KOs Jerome Hill in 2 rounds in his 1st
pro fight
1979 - "Most Happy Fella" closes at Majestic
Theater NYC after 53 perfs
1979 - 67th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal
Alouettes, 17-9
NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal OJ SimpsonNFL
Running Back and Convicted Criminal OJ Simpson 1979 - Israel returns Alma
oilfields in Gulf of Suez to Egypt
1979 - Pittsburgh gains 606 net yards against Cleveland,
winning 33-30
1980 - Coup in Burkina abolishes constitution
1980 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 - Imran Khan scores his 1st Test Cricket ton, 123 v WI
Lahore
1980 - Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Duran regains WBC
welterweight championship
1980 - Upper-Volta milt coup under Col Saye Zerbo, president
Lamizana flees
1981 - Failed coup by South African mercenaries in
Seychelles
1981 - Rollie Fingers is 1st relief pitcher to win AL MVP
1982 - The Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day Fire destroys an
entire city block, including the Northwestern National Bank building and the
recently closed Donaldson's Department Store.
1983 - Larry Holmes TKOs Marvis Frazier in 1 for heavyweight
boxing title
1983 - Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off
1983 - Syria & Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO
civil war in Tripoli
1983 - World's greatest robbery 25,000,000 pounds of gold,
Heathrow, England
1984 - Julio M Sanguinetti wins Uruguay presidential
election
1984 - William Schroeder, is 2nd to receive Jarvik-7
artificial heart
1985 - White Sox shortstop Ozzie Guillen, is named AL Rookie
of Year
1986 - A's Jose Canseco wins AL Rookie of Year
US President & Actor Ronald ReaganUS President &
Actor Ronald Reagan 1986 - Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals
secret arm deal
1986 - Oliver North's sect, Fawn Hill, smuggles documents
out of his office
1987 - Abdul Qadir takes 9-56 against England at Lahore
1987 - India all out for 75 v West Indies at Delhi,
Patterson 5-24
1987 - Supertyphoon Nina pummels the Philippines with
category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that swallows entire villages. at least
1,036 deaths attributed to the storm.
1988 - Chuck Berry pays $250 fine to resolve NYC assault
charges
1988 - Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral
resources signed
1988 - US & Soviet chess grand masters Donaldson &
Akhmilovskaya wed
1988 - Widespread earthquake hits North East US, Canada, no
damage reported
1988 - German politician Rita Süssmuth becomes president of
the Bundestag.
1989 - David Boon scores 200 v NZ at cricket WACA
1990 - 78th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Edmonton
Eskimos, 50-11
1990 - Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election
1990 - NFL's NY Giants & SF 49ers after winning their
1st 10 games both
1990 - Sri Lanka all out 82, Venkatapathy Raju (I) 6-12 off
17 lose, Phil Eagles beat Giants 31-13 & L.A. Rams beat 49ers 28-17
1993 - Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters falls
1993 - Failed bomb attack on Egyptian premier Atef Sedki, 1
dead
1994 - Sony founder Akio Morita announces he will be
stepping down as CEO of the company.
1995 - "Patti LuPone on Broadway" closes at Walter
Kerr NYC after 46 perfs
1996 - After 24 years, Disneyland Main Street Electrical
Parade, ends
1997 - US telephone tech Richard Bliss, arrested for spying
in Russia
2000 - 2000 Baku earthquake took place.
2005 - Polish Minister of National Defence Radek Sikorski
opens Warsaw Pact archives to historians. Maps of possible nuclear strikes
against Western Europe, as well as the possible nuclear annihilation of 43
Polish cities and 2 million of its citizens by Soviet-controlled forces, are
released.
2007 - The first European Parliament election and a
referendum on changing the voting system (called by the President and declared
invalid because of insufficient turnout) were held in Romania.
2008 - A car bomb in St. Petersburg, Russia, kills three
people and injures one.
2009 - Powerful storm brings 3 years worth of rain in 4
hours to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sparking terrible floods known as the 2009
Jeddah Floods, which kill over 150 people and sweep thousands of cars away
right in the middle of Hajj in the second largest city of Saudi Arabia, Jeddah.
2011 - Sudden violent storms strike southern Sri Lanka,
killing 27 people and drowning many fishermen caught by surprise. Thousands of
homes lose their roofs and several more sustain damage. Landslides along with
flooding was reported on the mainland.
2012 - 11 people are killed and 30 are wounded by twin car
bombs hitting a Protestant church in Nigeria
2012 - 16 people are killed and 44 injured after a wedding
party bus plunges 300 ft down a gorge in India
2012 - Sebastian Vettel wins the 2012 Formula One
championship for the third consecutive year
1715 - Sybilla Thomas Masters became the first American to be granted an English patent for cleaning and curing Indian corn. 1758 - During the French and Indian War, the British captured Fort Duquesne at what is now known as Pittsburgh. 1783 - During the Revolutionary War, the British evacuated New York. New York was their last military position in the U.S. 1837 - William Crompton patented the silk power loom. 1850 - Texas relinquished one-third of its territory in exchange for $10 million from the U.S. to pay its public debts and settle border disputes. 1867 - Alfred Nobel patented dynamite. 1882 - The first of 400 performances of "lolnathe" took place. 1884 - J.B. Meyenberg received the patent for evaporated milk. 1920 - The first play-by-play broadcast of a football game was aired in College Station, TX. The game was between the University of Texas and Texas A&M. 1936 - The Anti-Comintern Pact, an agreement between Japan and Germany, was signed. 1947 - Movie studio executives meeting in New York agreed to blacklist the "Hollywood 10," who were cited a day earlier and jailed for contempt of Congress when they failed to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee. 1952 - Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opened in London. 1955 - In the U.S., the Interstate Commerce Commission banned racial segregation on interstate trains and buses. 1957 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a stroke. 1970 - Japanese author Yukio Mishima committed ritual suicide after giving a speech attacking Japan's post-war constitution. 1973 - Greek President George Papadapoulos was ousted in military coup. 1976 - O.J. Simpson (Buffalo Bills) ran for 273 yards against the Detroit Lions. 1983 - Mediators from Syria and Saudi Arabia announced a cease-fire in the PLO civil war in Tripoli, Lebanon. 1985 - Ronald W. Pelton was arrested on espionage charges. Pelton was a former employee of the National Security Agency. He was later convicted of 'selling secrets' to Soviet agents. 1986 - U.S. President Reagan and Attorney Gen. Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to rebels in Nicaragua. National Security Advisor John Poindexter resigned and Oliver North was fired. 1990 - Poland held its first popular presidential election. 1992 - The Czech parliament voted to split the country into separate Czech and Slovak republics beginning January 1, 1993. 1993 - Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Sedki escaped an attempt on his life when a bomb was detonated by Islamic militants near his motorcade. 1995 - Serbs protested in the streets of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo The protest was against a peace plan. 1998 - Britain's highest court ruled that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose extradition was being sought by Spain, could not claim immunity from prosecution for the crimes he committed during his rule. 1998 - President Jiang Zemin arrived in Tokyo for the first visit to Japan by a Chinese head of state since World War II. 1998 - The IMF (International Monetary Fund) approved a $5.5 billion bailout for Pakistan.
1758 The British captured Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) in the French and Indian Wars. 1783 The British evacuated New York City, their last military position, after the Revolutionary War. 1841 The slaves who seized the Amistad in 1839 were freed by the Supreme Court. They had been defended by former president John Quincy Adams. 1947 Movie executives blacklisted the "Hollywood Ten." 1986 Iran-Contra scandal broke. 1998 Jiang Zemin became the first Chinese head of state to visit Japan since World War II. 1999 Elian Gonzalez was rescued off the coast of Florida. 2002 President George W. Bush signed into law the Department of Homeland Security and named Tom Ridge as head.
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http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/nov25.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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