What Happened on November 25
Important Events
- 1177 Battle of Montgisard: Baldwin IV of Jerusalem defeats Saladin and a larger Ayyubid force
- 1783 Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in the United States
- 1839 Cyclone slams south eastern India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying city of Coringa. Storm waves sweep inland, destroying 20,000 ships and killing an estimated 300,000 people
- 1905 Telimco makes the 1st ever advertisement for a radio set, by advertising a $7.50 set in the "Scientific American" which claimed to receive signals for up to one mile
- 1986 Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arms deal
Nov 25 in Film & TV
- 1947 The 1st systematic Hollywood blacklist is instituted, denying employment to American entertainment professionals due to alleged Communist ties or sympathies
- 2013 Disney release “Frozen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media 2015, 2014 Billboard Album of the Year)
Nov 25 in Sport
- 1979 Pat Summerall and John Madden broadcast a game together for the first time, a pairing that lasts 22 years and becomes one of the most well-known partnerships in TV sportscasting history
Did You Know?
Polish Minister of National Defence Radek Sikorski opens Warsaw Pact archives to historians showing maps of possible nuclear strikes against Western Europe, including the nuclear annihilation of 43 Polish cities by Soviet-controlled forces.
On November 25, 2005
Andrew Carnegie
Karl Benz
John XXIII
Joe DiMaggio
Augusto Pinochet
John F. Kennedy Jr.Would You Believe?
First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
On November 25, 1715
Famous Weddings
- 1795 US President William Henry Harrison (22) weds Anna Symmes (20) in North Bend, Ohio
- 1908 Vaudeville performer Will Rogers (29) weds Betty Blake
- 1913 28th US President Woodrow Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in The White House
Famous Divorces
- 2002 Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage (38) files for divorce from the "Princess of Rock and Roll" Lisa Marie Presley (34) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 months of marriage
Inez Milholland
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Bill Robinson
Upton Sinclair
Fidel Castro
Diego MaradonaArticles, Photos and Quiz
Nobel Patents Dynamite
Alfred Nobel's Dynamite
November 25, 1867Theatregoers Still Caught in The Mousetrap
It began in 1952 with a fresh-faced young actor called Richard Attenborough in the lead role. Since then, The Mousetrap has smashed all theatrical records.
November 25, 1952Weekly Quiz for November 25 - December 1
What did Alfred Nobel patent? What was name of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's famous thought experiment? What was Mark Twain's real name?
November in History
Grace Darling, the Lighthouse Heroine
Raging seas were no deterrent when lighthouse-keeper’s daughter Grace Darling determinedly set out in a rowing boat to rescue survivors of a shipwreck.
November 24, 1815Money From The Sky – a Nazi War Weapon
Adolf Hitler would have given almost anything to defeat Great Britain – and that is possibly why he sanctioned one of the most bizarre plots to harm his enemy.
November 26, 1904Artist's 'Rocket' Shot Down in Flames
Artist James Whistler sought £1,000 libel damages from an art critic but was told by a jury on this day that he could whistle for it!
November 26, 1878Horatio Nelson: From Frail Boy to National Hero
A 12-year-old boy stepped into a world where many men feared to tread on this day: the harsh and brutal British Navy. He was legend-to-be Horatio Nelson.
November 27, 1770
