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Today In History - November 25 |
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1792 The Farmer's Almanac is first published... |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1507 Joost de Damhoudere 1562 Lope Felix de Vega 1697 Gerhard Tersteegen 1721 Willem Crul 1734 Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wenkel 1737 Christian Friedrich Penzel 1741 Johann Christian Frischmuth 1752 Johann Friedrich Reichardt 1753 Otto Carl Erdmann Kospoth 1787 Franz Xavier Gruber 1823 Joseph Alexander Cooper 1825 Edward Augustus Wild 1828 Franjo Racki 1834 Jean-Baptist Colyns 1835 Andrew Carnegie 1839 Stanislaw Duniecki 1840 Hugo Verriest 1844 Karl F. Benz 1856 Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev 1862 Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin 1873 Dirk Schafer 1877 Harley Granville-Barker 1878 Georg Kaiser 1880 Leonard S. Woolf 1881 Pope John XXIII 1881 Peder Gram 1883 Percy Marmont 1886 Percy Holmes 1886 Rex Maupin 1893 Joseph W. Krutch 1895 Anastas I. Mikoyan 1896 Virgil Thomson 1899 Vera Reynolds 1899 William R. Burnett 1900 Arthur Schwartz 1900 Helen Gahagan Douglas 1901 Tibor Serly 1902 Eddie Shore 1904 Jessie Royce Landis 1904 Lillian Copeland 1909 Hugh Davson 1909 Manny Martindale 1910 Leon Poliakov 1914 Eddie Boyd 1915 Augusto Pinochet 1919 Ricardo Montalban 1919 Steve Brodie 1922 Ilja Hurnik 1923 Jaap van Meekren 1923 Mauno Koivisto 1924 Paul Desmond 1925 Jeffrey Hunter 1925 Jose Napoleon Duarte 1926 Murray Schisgal 1926 Poul Anderson 1928 James "Jimmy" Johnson 1929 Jack Hogan 1929 Theo Bruins 1931 Dickie Jeeps 1933 Kathryn Grant Crosby 1933 Krzysztof Penderecki 1933 Lenny Moore 1933 Ramiro Cortes 1933 Rene Enriquez 1935 Gloria Steinem 1936 Matt Clark 1938 Charles Starkwether 1938 John "Jack" Baines 1939 Martin Feldstein 1939 Rosanna Schiaffino 1940 Percy Sledge 1940 Richard Furrer 1942 Rosa Von Praunheim 1942 Tracey Walter 1943 Roy Lynes 1944 Ben Stein 1947 John Larroquette 1947 Jonathan Kaplan 1947 Linda Laflamme 1947 Val Fuentes 1948 Storm Field 1952 Ernest Harden, Jr. 1956 Liana Vicens 1957 Chico Walker 1957 Robert. L. Ehrlich 1958 Gary Coveyou 1959 Charles Kennedy 1959 Steve Rothery 1960 Amy Grant 1960 John F. Kennedy, Jr. 1960 Kasey Smith 1960 Mary Ostergren 1961 Amy Gibson 1961 Kenny Monday 1963 Bernie Kosar 1964 Kevin Jackson 1964 Nolan Jay Henke 1964 Wendy Wyland 1965 Anthony Newman 1965 Cris Carter 1965 Jeff Norton 1965 Mike Gebhardt 1965 Yasmin "Yaz" Farooq 1966 Mark Whiten 1966 Stacy Lattisaw 1967 Andrea Stinson 1967 Anthony Nesty 1967 Curtis Baldwin 1968 John Johnstone 1968 Jory Husain 1969 Anthony Peeler 1969 Donald Reynolds 1969 Jacqueline Hennessy 1969 Jillian Hennessy 1970 Purvis Hunt 1970 Saskia Sibilo 1970 Shane Pahukoa 1971 Christina Applegate 1972 Kevin Han 1972 Petteri Nummelin 1973 Erick Strickland 1973 Yatil Green 1974 Cynthia Geyn Brown 1978 Lauren Hewitt 1978 Laurie Miller 1990 Yasmin van der Meer |
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On This Date in History |
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1120 English royal yacht "White Ship" departs during a storm 1165 RC German emperor Frederik I Barbarossa visits Utrecht 1185 Umberto Crivelli replaces Lucius III as Pope Urban III 1277 Giovanni Gaetano Orsini is elected as Pope Nicolas III 1357 Charles IV issues a letter of protection of the Jews of Strasbourg Alsace 1500 Governor De Bobadilla of Santo Domingo captures Columbus 1659 Michiel de Ruyter conquerors the Danish city of Nyborg 1688 Princess Anne flees from London to Nottingham 1715 The first English patent is granted to an American: processing corn 1744 Austrian forces pillage and kill the Jews of Prague 1758 Britain captures Ft. Duquesne in Pittsburgh from the French 1766 Pope Clement XIII warns on the dangers of anti-Christian writings 1783 Britain evacuates New York City: their last military position in the US 1792 The Farmer's Almanac is first published 1817 The first sword swallower in the U.S. performs in New York City 1834 Delmonico's, one of New York's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee and half a pie for 12¢ 1841 35 Amistad ship survivors return to Africa 1863 The Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee 1864 The Confederate plot to burn New York City, fails 1864 Confederates retreat at Sandersville, Georgia 1867 Alfred Nobel patents dynamite – later creates the Nobel Prizes 1867 U.S. Congress commission looks into the "impeachment" of President Andrew Johnson 1884 John B. Meyenberg of St. Louis, MO patents evaporated milk 1897 Spain grants Puerto Rico its autonomy 1899 The Battle at Graspan 1912 American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springfield, IL 1912 Socialist International rejects that a world war is coming 1913 Woodrow Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in the White House 1920 The first Thanksgiving Parade is held in the US in Philadelphia 1922 Archaeologist Howard Carter enters King Tut's tomb 1922 Japanese crown prince Hirohito is appointed the Prince Regent 1925 The KPD proposes German Parliament expropriate possession of monarchy 1929 The Belgium government of Jaspar falls 1930 690 earthquake shocks are recorded in a single day in Ito, Japan 1933 The first Soviet liquid-fuel rocket attains an altitude of 261' 1935 The Resident Institution for Social History (IISG) forms in Amsterdam 1936 Germany and Japan sign the anti-Komintern pact 1937 World's fair of Paris closes after 31.2 million visitors attend 1940 The Patria, carrying illegal immigrants, sinks in the port of Haifa and 200 people die 1940 The University of Michigan retires Tom Harmon's number: #98 1940 Woody Woodpecker debuts with the release of Walter Lantz's "Knock, Knock" 1941 German Jews in Netherlands are declared stateless and lose their nationality 1947 The future Queen Elizabeth marries Prince Philip in Westminster Abbey 1949 "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" appears on the music charts 1949 Ted Williams, wins the AL MVP 1950 The U.N. gives Eritrea to Ethiopia 1951 17 people die in a train crash in Woodstock, AL 1952 George Meany is appointed as chairman of the AFL 1953 An earthquake and Tsunami strike Honshu, Japan 1955 Race segregation is forbidden on trains and buses between the U.S. states 1957 President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke which impairs his speech 1958 Senegal becomes an autonomous state in the French Community 1960 "Amos 'n Andy" made its last broadcast on CBS radio 1960 CBS 4 radio ends the final four soap operas: Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr. Malone and 2nd Mrs. Burton 1960 The first atomic reactor for research and development starts in Richland, WA 1961 NBA's Bob Cousy becomes the 2nd player to score 15,000 points 1963 John F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery 1967 Puerto Rico is placed on Atlantic Standard Time 1971 "Dan Cooper" (DB Cooper) jumps with $200,000 out of plane over Washington 1973 Three Palestinians hijack KLM B747 above Iraq 1973 A bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George Papadopoulos 1973 Maximum US speed limit is cut to 55 MPH as an energy conservation measure 1974 The Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following the deaths of 21 people 1974 Rangers' Mike Hargrove wins the AL Rookie of Year 1976 O. J. Simpson gains 273 yards for Buffalo against Detroit 1976 The Viking 1 radio signal from Mars helps prove Einstein's general theory of relativity 1977 The Miss Teenage America Pageant 1979 An American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago and kills 275 people 1979 Israel returns the Alma oilfields in the Gulf of Suez to Egypt 1980 France performs a nuclear test at Muruora Island 1980 Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Duran and regains his WBC welterweight championship title 1983 Larry Holmes TKOs Marvis Frazier in 1 round for the heavyweight boxing title 1983 Syria and Saudi Arabia announce a cease-fire in the PLO civil war in Tripoli 1983 World's greatest robbery: 25,000,000 pounds of gold in Heathrow, England 1984 Julio M. Sanguinetti wins the Uruguay presidential election 1986 The Iran-Contra affair erupts, and President Reagan reveals the secret arms deal 1986 Oliver North's secretary, Fawn Hill, smuggles documents out of his office 1988 Chuck Berry pays a $250 fine to resolve New York City assault charges 1988 Convention on the exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources is signed 1988 U.S. and Soviet chess grand masters, Donaldson and Akhmilovskaya, get married 1990 Lech Walesa wins in Poland's first popular election 1993 The Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters falls 1993 Failed bomb attack on Egyptian premier Atef Sedki leaves 1 person dead 1996 After 24 years, the Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade ends 1997 US telephone technician, Richard Bliss, is arrested for spying in Russia |
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