Major 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 southeastern India with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge, destroying the city of Coringa. Storm waves sweep inland, destroying 20,000 ships and killing an estimated 300,000 people.
Nov 25 in Film & TV
- 1947 First systematic Hollywood blacklist is instituted, denying employment to American entertainment professionals with alleged communist ties or sympathies
- 2013 Disney releases “Frozen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media 2015, Billboard Album of the Year 2014)
Nov 25 in Sport
- 1892 Pierre de Coubertin first publicly proposes the revival of the Olympic Games during a speech at the Sorbonne in Paris, celebrating the fifth anniversary of the French athletics union [1]
- 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 sports broadcasting 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
Fun Fact About November 25
Delmonico’s, one of New York’s finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee, and half a pie for 12 cents
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