November 25

November 25 is the 329th day (330th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 36 days remaining.

Events

• 1863 - Battle of Missionary Ridge[?]
• 1758 - British forces capture Fort Duquesne
• 1874 - United States Greenback Party[?] formed
• 1947 - "Hollywood Ten" fired by Hollywood film studios
• 1947 - New Zealand becomes a dominion
• 1958 - senegal gains autonomy
• 1963 - John F. Kennedy buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• 1975 - Suriname becomes independent.
• 1980 - Sugar Ray Leonard takes the second fight of his legendary boxing trilogy with Roberto Duran, when Duran quits in round 8 in New Orleans. Leonard officially recovers the WBC world welterweight title with a technical knockout.
• 2002 - The Homeland Security Act of 2002[?] is signed into law, establishing the United States Department of Homeland Security.

Births

• 1562 - Félix Lope de Vega[?], playwright (+ 1635)
• 1830 - Lina Morgenstern[?], writer (+ 1909)
• 1835 - Andrew Carnegie, industrialist, philanthropist (+ 1919)
• 1844 - Karl Benz, engineer (+ 1929)
• 1846 - Carry Nation, temperance advocate
• 1881 - Pope John XXIII (+ 1963)
• 1895 - Ludvík Svoboda[?] politician and Czech President (+ 1979)
• 1896 - Virgil Thomson, composer, music critic (+ 1989)
• 1913 - Lewis Thomas[?], physician, essayist
• 1914 - Léon Zitrone[?], animator
• 1914 - Joe DiMaggio, baseball player (+ 1999)
• 1915 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean politician
• 1920 - Ricardo Montalban, actor
• 1925 - Rock Hudson, actor (+ 1985)
• 1926 - Poul Anderson, science fiction writer (+ 2001)
• 1933 - Kathryn Grant[?], actress
• 1940 - Reinhard Furrer[?], physicist, astronaut (+ 1955)
• 1944 - Ben Stein[?], actor, game show host, political consultant
• 1947 - John Larroquette[?], actor
• 1959 - Charles Kennedy, British politician
• 1960 - Amy Grant, singer
• 1960 - John F. Kennedy Jr., journalist (+ 1999)

Deaths

• 1884 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, chemist
• 1920 - Gaston Chevrolet[?], automobile pioneer
• 1944 - Kennesaw Mountain Landis[?], baseball commissioner
• 1947 - Léon-Paul Fargue, poet
• 1959 - Gérard Philipe[?], actor
• 1968 - Upton Sinclair, journalist, politician, writer
• 1970 - Yukio Mishima, writer
• 1972 - Henri Coanda, aerodynamics pioneer
• 1973 - Laurence Harvey, actor
• 1974 - U Thant[?], former UN Secretary-General
• 1974 - Nick Drake, musician
• 1981 - Jack Albertson, actor
• 1998 - Flip Wilson[?], actor, comedian

Holidays and observances

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