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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.
1835 - Industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie was born.
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.
1915 - A new version of the Ku Klux Klan, targeting blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants, was founded by William Joseph Simmons.
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.
1961 - The first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise, was commissioned.
1963 - The body of President John F. Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery; his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, lighted an "eternal flame" at the gravesite monument.
1973 - Greek President George Papadopoulos was ousted in a bloodless military coup.
1986 - The Iran-Contra scandal broke 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.
1998 - Jiang Zemin became the first Chinese head of state to visit Japan since World War II.
1999 - Six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida.
2001 - As the war in Afghanistan entered its eighth week, CIA officer Johnny "Mike" Spann was killed during a prison uprising in Mazar-e-Sharif, becoming America's first combat casualty of the conflict.
2002 - President George W. Bush signed legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security and named Tom Ridge as its first head.
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.
2009 - Toyota said it would replace the gas pedals on 4 million vehicles in the United States because the pedals could get stuck in the floor mats and cause sudden acceleration.
2014 - Attorneys for Michael Brown's family vowed to push for federal charges against the Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who killed the unarmed 18-year-old, a day after a grand jury declined to indict Darren Wilson. (The Justice Department later declined to prosecute Wilson.) President Barack Obama sharply rebuked protesters for racially charged violence in Ferguson, saying there was no excuse for burning buildings, torching cars and destroying other property.
2016 - Fidel Castro, who led his rebels to victorious revolution in 1959, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half-century of rule in Cuba, died at age 90.
2018 - The nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century was declared fully contained after burning for more than two weeks; it had killed 85 people and destroyed thousands of homes in and around the Northern California town of Paradise.
Birthdays
22 - Lovey James (singer)
25 - Bambi Bains (singer)
28 - Jamie Grace (singer)
29 - Maura Higgins (reality star)
33 - Katie Cassidy (actress)
38 - Jenna Bush Hager (daughter of President George W. Bush)
38 - Barbara Pierce Bush (daughter of President George W. Bush)
39 - Valerie Azlynn (actress)
40 - Joel Kinnaman (actor)
40 - Jerry Ferrara (actor)
42 - Jill Flint (actress)
43 - Donovan McNabb (football player)
44 - Kristian Nairn (actress)
46 - Eddie Steeples (actor)
48 - Christina Applegate (actress)
50 - Jill Hennessy (actress)
53 - Stacy Lattisaw (singer)
53 - Billy Burke (actor)
54 - Steve Harris (actor)
56 - Bernie Kosar (football player)
56 - Sonja Morgan (reality star)
56 - Kevin Chamberlin (actor)
59 - Amy Grant (singer)
68 - Bucky Dent (baseball player)
72 - Tracey Walter (actor)
72 - John Larroquette (actor)
75 - Ben Stein (actor/author/economist)
77 - Bob Lind (singer)
79 - Joe Gibbs (football coach)
82 - Christopher Riordan (actor)
86 - Kathryn Crosby (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 25
1914 - Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio was born in Martinez, California.
1921 - The first play-by-play broadcast of a football game was aired in College Station, TX, via an amateur radio station. The game was between the University of Texas and Texas A&M in Austin.
1951 - Cleveland halfback Dub Jones ties the NFL record for most touchdowns in a game, scoring six in the Browns 42-21 win against the Chicago Bears.
1961 - Bob Cousy (Boston Celtics) scored his 15,000th NBA career point.
1965 - The first color broadcast of an NFL game aired on CBS. The Detroit Lions and the Baltimore Colts played to a 24-24 tie.
1971 - Auburn quarterback Pat Sullivan wins the Heisman Trophy.
1976 - O.J. Simpson (Buffalo Bills) ran for 273 yards against the Detroit Lions.
1979 - Pat Summerall and John Madden broadcast a game together for the first time, a pairing that would last 22 years and become one of the most well-known partnerships in TV sportscasting history.
1980 - Larry Holmes knocked out Marvis Frazier in the first round to retain the world heavyweight title.
1980 - Sugar Ray Leonard regained the World Boxing Council welterweight championship when Roberto Duran abruptly quit in the eighth round at the Louisiana Superdome.
2002 - Pete Rose and baseball commissioner Bud Selig met secretly to discuss Rose's lifetime ban from baseball.
2008 - Football player Michael Vick pleaded guilty to a Virginia dogfighting charge and received a three-year suspended sentence.
2018 - Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers sets an NFL single-game record, completing 25 straight passes in a 45-10 win over the Arizona Cardinals. Mark Brunell and David Carr previously held the record with 22. Rivers also set an NFL record for highest single-game completion percentage at 96.6.
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.
1835 - Industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie was born.
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.
1915 - A new version of the Ku Klux Klan, targeting blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants, was founded by William Joseph Simmons.
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.
1961 - The first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise, was commissioned.
1963 - The body of President John F. Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery; his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, lighted an "eternal flame" at the gravesite monument.
1973 - Greek President George Papadopoulos was ousted in a bloodless military coup.
1986 - The Iran-Contra scandal broke 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.
1998 - Jiang Zemin became the first Chinese head of state to visit Japan since World War II.
1999 - Six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida.
2001 - As the war in Afghanistan entered its eighth week, CIA officer Johnny "Mike" Spann was killed during a prison uprising in Mazar-e-Sharif, becoming America's first combat casualty of the conflict.
2002 - President George W. Bush signed legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security and named Tom Ridge as its first head.
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.
2009 - Toyota said it would replace the gas pedals on 4 million vehicles in the United States because the pedals could get stuck in the floor mats and cause sudden acceleration.
2014 - Attorneys for Michael Brown's family vowed to push for federal charges against the Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who killed the unarmed 18-year-old, a day after a grand jury declined to indict Darren Wilson. (The Justice Department later declined to prosecute Wilson.) President Barack Obama sharply rebuked protesters for racially charged violence in Ferguson, saying there was no excuse for burning buildings, torching cars and destroying other property.
2016 - Fidel Castro, who led his rebels to victorious revolution in 1959, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half-century of rule in Cuba, died at age 90.
2018 - The nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century was declared fully contained after burning for more than two weeks; it had killed 85 people and destroyed thousands of homes in and around the Northern California town of Paradise.
Birthdays
22 - Lovey James (singer)
25 - Bambi Bains (singer)
28 - Jamie Grace (singer)
29 - Maura Higgins (reality star)
33 - Katie Cassidy (actress)
38 - Jenna Bush Hager (daughter of President George W. Bush)
38 - Barbara Pierce Bush (daughter of President George W. Bush)
39 - Valerie Azlynn (actress)
40 - Joel Kinnaman (actor)
40 - Jerry Ferrara (actor)
42 - Jill Flint (actress)
43 - Donovan McNabb (football player)
44 - Kristian Nairn (actress)
46 - Eddie Steeples (actor)
48 - Christina Applegate (actress)
50 - Jill Hennessy (actress)
53 - Stacy Lattisaw (singer)
53 - Billy Burke (actor)
54 - Steve Harris (actor)
56 - Bernie Kosar (football player)
56 - Sonja Morgan (reality star)
56 - Kevin Chamberlin (actor)
59 - Amy Grant (singer)
68 - Bucky Dent (baseball player)
72 - Tracey Walter (actor)
72 - John Larroquette (actor)
75 - Ben Stein (actor/author/economist)
77 - Bob Lind (singer)
79 - Joe Gibbs (football coach)
82 - Christopher Riordan (actor)
86 - Kathryn Crosby (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 25
1914 - Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio was born in Martinez, California.
1921 - The first play-by-play broadcast of a football game was aired in College Station, TX, via an amateur radio station. The game was between the University of Texas and Texas A&M in Austin.
1951 - Cleveland halfback Dub Jones ties the NFL record for most touchdowns in a game, scoring six in the Browns 42-21 win against the Chicago Bears.
1961 - Bob Cousy (Boston Celtics) scored his 15,000th NBA career point.
1965 - The first color broadcast of an NFL game aired on CBS. The Detroit Lions and the Baltimore Colts played to a 24-24 tie.
1971 - Auburn quarterback Pat Sullivan wins the Heisman Trophy.
1976 - O.J. Simpson (Buffalo Bills) ran for 273 yards against the Detroit Lions.
1979 - Pat Summerall and John Madden broadcast a game together for the first time, a pairing that would last 22 years and become one of the most well-known partnerships in TV sportscasting history.
1980 - Larry Holmes knocked out Marvis Frazier in the first round to retain the world heavyweight title.
1980 - Sugar Ray Leonard regained the World Boxing Council welterweight championship when Roberto Duran abruptly quit in the eighth round at the Louisiana Superdome.
2002 - Pete Rose and baseball commissioner Bud Selig met secretly to discuss Rose's lifetime ban from baseball.
2008 - Football player Michael Vick pleaded guilty to a Virginia dogfighting charge and received a three-year suspended sentence.
2018 - Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers sets an NFL single-game record, completing 25 straight passes in a 45-10 win over the Arizona Cardinals. Mark Brunell and David Carr previously held the record with 22. Rivers also set an NFL record for highest single-game completion percentage at 96.6.