Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 25th!
| 1783 | The British evacuated New York, their last military position in the United States, during the Revolutionary War.  |
| 1863 | Union ends the siege of Chattanooga with the Battle of Missionary Ridge. |
| 1876 | Colonel Ronald MacKenzie destroys Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife’s village, in the Bighorn Mountains near the Red Fork of the Powder River, during the so-called Great Sioux War. |
| 1901 | Japanese Prince Ito arrives in Russia to seek concessions in Korea. |
| 1914 | German Field Marshal Fredrich von Hindenburg calls off the Lodz offensive 40 miles from Warsaw, Poland. The Russians lose 90,000 to the Germans’ 35,000 in two weeks of fighting. |
| 1914 | Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio was born in Martinez, Calif.  |
| 1918 | Chile and Peru sever relations. |
| 1921 | Hirohito becomes regent of Japan. |
| 1923 | Transatlantic broadcasting from England to America commences for the first time. |
| 1930 | An earthquake in Shizouka, Japan kills 187 people. |
| 1939 | Germany reports four British ships sunk in the North Sea, but London denies the claim. |
| 1946 | The U.S. Supreme Court grants the Oregon Indians land payment rights from the U.S. government. |
| 1947 | The Big Four meet to discuss the German and European economy. |
| 1947 | Movie studio executives agreed to blacklist the Hollywood 10, who were jailed a day earlier for contempt of Congress for failing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.  |
| 1951 | A truce line between U.N. troops and North Korea is mapped out at the peace talks in Panmunjom, Korea. |
| 1955 | The Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation in interstate travel. |
| 1963 | The body of assassinated President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. |
| 1964 | Eleven nations give a total of $3 billion to rescue the value of the British currency. |
| 1973 | Greek President George Papadopoulos was ousted in a bloodless military coup. |
| 1986 | The Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels. |
| 1987 | Chicago Mayor Harold Washington died after suffering a heart attack in his City Hall office. |
| 1999 | Six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida.  |
| 2003 | The Senate gave final congressional approval to Medicare legislation combining a new prescription drug benefit with measures to control costs before the baby boom generation reaches retirement age. |
| 2003 | Yemen arrested Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal, a top al-Qaida member suspected of masterminding the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole and the 2002 bombing of a French oil tanker off Yemen’s coast. |
| 2006 | Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a cease-fire to end a five-month Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and the firing of rockets by Palestinian militants into the Jewish state. |
| 2008 | Football player Michael Vick pleaded guilty to a Virginia dogfighting charge and received a three-year suspended sentence.  |
Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.
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