Wednesday, November 25, 2009

This will be 329th day of the year and 36 days will remain in the year.


November 25 Birthdays

Joseph DiMaggio
1914–1999, American Baseball Player

Félix Lope de Vega Carpio
dramatic poet (1562)

 Andrew Carnegie
industrialist and philanthropost (1835)

 Carry Moore Nation
temperance advocate (1846)

 Pope John XXIII
religious leader (1881)

 Virgil Thomson
composer (1896)

 Ba Jin
modern novelist (1904)

 Ricardo Montalban
actor (1920)

 John Larroquette
actor (1947)

 John F. Kennedy, Jr.
publisher, lawyer (1960)

 Amy Grant
pop musician (1960)

November 25 in History

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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