TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 25
2348 BC Biblical scholars have long asserted this to be the day of the Great Deluge, or Flood.
1177 Battle of Montgisard: Baldwin IV of Jerusalem defeats Saladin and a larger Ayyubid force
1754 The British captured Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) in the French and Indian Wars.
1783 Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in United States
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.
1864 Confederate plot to burn NYC, fails
1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
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.
1923 Transatlantic broadcasting from England to America commences for the first time.
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.
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.
1960 Assassination of the Mirabal Sisters The 3 Dominican sisters, Patria, Minerva, Antonia Mirabal, were activists that were opposed to the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo.
1963 The body of assassinated President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1973 Bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George Papadopoulos
1986 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.
1992 Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to partition the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, beginning Jan. 1, 1993.
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