Today in history, Nov 25th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 25th!

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

http://hankeringforhistory.com/2012/11/25/today-in-history-nov-25th/

1783	The British evacuated New York, their last military position in the United States, during the Revolutionary War.
1863	Union ends the siege of Chattanooga with the Battle of Missionary Ridge.
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.
1901	Japanese Prince Ito arrives in Russia to seek concessions in Korea.
1914	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.
1914	Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio was born in Martinez, Calif.
1918	Chile and Peru sever relations.
1921	Hirohito becomes regent of Japan.
1923	Transatlantic broadcasting from England to America commences for the first time.
1930	An earthquake in Shizouka, Japan kills 187 people.
1939	Germany reports four British ships sunk in the North Sea, but London denies the claim.
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.
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.
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.
1963	The body of assassinated President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1964	Eleven nations give a total of $3 billion to rescue the value of the British currency.
1973	Greek President George Papadopoulos was ousted in a bloodless military coup.
1986	The Iran-Contra affair erupted 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.
1999	Six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida.
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.
2008	Football player Michael Vick pleaded guilty to a Virginia dogfighting charge and received a three-year suspended sentence.