more events on November 25
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2008
Sri Lanka is hit by Cyclone Nisha, bringing the highest rainfall the area had seen in 9 decades; 15 people die, 90,000 are left homeless.
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1992
Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to partition the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, beginning Jan. 1, 1993.
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1987
Typhoon Nina sticks the Philippines with 165 mph winds and a devastating storm surge and causes over 1,030 deaths.
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1986
Amber Hagerman, whose kidnapping and murder in Jan. 1996 led to the development of the AMBER Alert system to notify surrounding communities when a child is reported missing or abducted.
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As President Ronald Reagan announces the Justice Department’s findings concerning the Iran-Contra affair; secretary Fawn Hall smuggles important documents out of Lt. Col. Oliver North’s office.
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1981
Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of US Pres. George W. Bush; she and her sororal twin sister were the first twin children of a US president; presently (2013) a special correspondent to NBC’s Today Show and a contributor to NBC Nightly News.
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1971
Christina Applegate, actress (Married . . . with Children, Samantha Who? TV series).
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1964
Eleven nations give a total of $3 billion to rescue the value of the British currency.
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1963
The body of assassinated President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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1960
John F. Kennedy Jr., elder son of US Pres. John F. Kennedy (assassinated three days before JFK Jr.’s third birthday); co-founded George magazine in 1995; died in plane crash, July 16, 1999.
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1955
The Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation in interstate travel.
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1953
Jeffrey Skilling, former CEO of Enron Corp.; convicted of multiple felony charges in 2006, relating to Enron’s financial collapse.
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1951
A truce line between U.N. troops and North Korea is mapped out at the peace talks in Panmunjom, Korea.
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1947
The Big Four meet to discuss the German and European economy.
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1946
The U.S. Supreme Court grants the Oregon Indians land payment rights from the U.S. government.
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1945
Gail Collins, journalist; first woman to serve as editorial page editor of The New York Times.
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1942
Bob Lind, singer, songwriter who was an important influence in the 1960s folk rock movement in the US and UK (“Elusive Butterfly”).
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1939
Shelagh Delaney, playwright (A Taste of Honey).
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Germany reports four British ships sunk in the North Sea, but London denies the claim.
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1930
An earthquake in Shizouka, Japan kills 187 people.
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1923
Transatlantic broadcasting from England to America commences for the first time.
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1921
Hirohito becomes regent of Japan.
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1918
Chile and Peru sever relations.
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1914
Joe DiMaggio, Hall of Fame baseball star who led the New York Yankees to ten World Series.
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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.
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1913
Lewis Thomas, physician and author (The Lives of a Cell).
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1910
Alwin Nikolais, choreographer.
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1901
Japanese Prince Ito arrives in Russia to seek concessions in Korea.
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1896
Virgil Thompson, American composer (Four Saints in Three Acts, The Mother of Us All).
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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.
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1863
Union ends the siege of Chattanooga with the Battle of Missionary Ridge.
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1844
Carl Benz, pioneer of early motor cars.