| 2012 | President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi causes a call for large protests after he passed a degree giving himself sweeping new powers |
| 2012 | In Surrey, England, a message found on the leg of a pigeon from WWII stumps GCHQ code-breakers, who say the message hidden in the code may never be revealed |
| 2011 | The U.S. declares it will no longer observe the 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe |
| 2011 | The European Space Agency makes contact with the Fobos-Grunt probe 48 hours after the spacecraft's window for launch to Mars closes |
| 2010 | For the first time in ten years, Burmese pro-Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is reunited with her son |
| 2010 | An additional 23 soldiers from the Bangladesh Rifles are sentenced to imprisonment for mutiny in February 2009 |
| 1997 | Annika Sorenstam wins ITT LPGA Tour Championship |
| 1997 | Jana Novotna (Czechoslovakia) beats Mary Pierce (France) in Chase Tennis Champ |
| 1996 | Irebe Skliva, 18, of Greece, crowned 46th Miss World |
| 1993 | "Angels in America-Perestroika" opens at Walter Kerr New York City for 216 performances |
| 1992 | "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" opens at Booth New York City for 232 performances |
| 1992 | 10,000,000 cellular telephone sold |
| 1991 | A day before he dies, Freddie Mercury, 45, confirms he has AIDS |
| 1991 | Evander Holyfield TKOs Bert Cooper in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1991 | Martin Lopez-Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:56.57) |
| 1991 | Sacramento Kings ends NBA's longest road losing streak at 43 games |
| 1991 | Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Lorrie Nichols |
| 1991 | Brigham Young Ty Detmer finishes NCAA career with record 4,031 yards passed in a season and 15,031 for career |
| 1990 | Model Cheryl Tiegs marries actor Tony Peck |
| 1990 | Test Cricket debut of Saeed Anwar (Pak vs. WI), scores 0 and 0 |
| 1989 | Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines |
| 1989 | Xenophobia Zolotas sworn in as premier of Greece |
| 1988 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1988 | Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal |
| 1988 | Yankees sign free agent 2nd-baseman Steve Sax to 3-year contract |
| 1985 | 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijack Egyptair jet in Malta |
| 1985 | Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China |
| 1984 | Limited-over International cricket debut for Wasim Akram, vs. New Zealand |
| 1984 | Test Cricket debut of David Boon age 23 and Bob Holland age 38 (v WI) |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1984 | Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie passes (472 yards), including game ending 48 yard touchdown (Hail Mary Pass) to end game and beat Miami 47-45 |
| 1983 | Soyuz T-9 lands |
| 1983 | U.S.S.R. leave weapon disarmament talks |
| 1982 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB and mated for STS-6 |
| 1982 | FCC drops limits on duration and frequency of TV ads |
| 1982 | New York Islanders and Minnesota North Stars play to an 8-8 tie |
| 1980 | 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy |
| 1980 | 68th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 48-10 |
| 1980 | National Black Independent Party forms |
| 1979 | Pink Floyd's "The Wall" released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks |
| 1977 | "Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 96 performances |
| 1977 | European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral |
| 1976 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1976 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1975 | 63rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 9-8 |
| 1975 | Bob Thomas of Chicago Bears kicks 55-yard field goal |
| 1975 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Greater Ft. Myers Golf Classic |
| 1974 | 60 Ethiopia government officials executed |
| 1971 | China People's Republic seated in United Nations Security Council |
| 1971 | Danny Murtaugh, manager of world champ Pirates, announces retirement |
| 1970 | KNCT TV channel 46 in Belton/Killeen, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" closes at Booth New York City after 36 performances |
| 1968 | Milwaukee Bucks make their 1st NBA trade, giving Bob Love and Bob Weiss to Chicago Bulls for Flynn Robinson |
| 1966 | Chicago outfielder Tommie Agee is voted AL Rookie of Year |
| 1965 | 31st Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Garrett, Southern California (RB) |
| 1965 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1964 | "Bajour" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 232 performances |
| 1964 | Beatles release "I Feel Fine" and "She's a Woman" |
| 1964 | Vatican abolished Latin as official language of Roman Catholic liturgy |
| 1963 | "Doctor Who," the long-running British sci-fi series debuts in England |
| 1963 | "Tambourines to Glory" closes at Little Theater New York City after 24 performances |
| 1963 | Horatio Alger Society founded |
| 1963 | John F. Kennedy's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House |
| 1963 | Lyndon Baines Johnson proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for John F. Kennedy) |
| 1962 | Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills is named NL's MVP |
| 1960 | Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year |
| 1960 | Tinseltown dedicated its Walk of Fame on Hollywood Blvd |
| 1960 | Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched |
| 1959 | "Fiorello!" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 796 performances |
| 1955 | British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Is in Indian Ocean to Australia |
| 1953 | KVFD (now KTIN) TV channel 21 in Ft. Dodge, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1953 | WJBF TV channel 6 in Augusta, Georgia (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1950 | Howard Swanson's "Short Symphony," premieres |
| 1948 | Dr. Frank G Back (New York City) patents lens to provide zoom effects |
| 1947 | French government of Schumann, forms |
| 1947 | Washington Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chi Cards (45-21) |
| 1946 | "Gypsy Lady" closes at Century Theater New York City after 79 performances |
| 1946 | 34th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 28-6 |
| 1946 | French Navy fire in Haiphong Vietnam, kills 6,000 |
| 1945 | Most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, ends |
| 1944 | U.S. 7th army under General Patch conquers Straatsburg |
| 1943 | 1st printing of illegal "Warheid" |
| 1943 | British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation |
| 1943 | U.S. forces take control of Tarawa, Gilbert Island and Makin from Japanese |
| 1943 | Phils owner William D. Cox is permanently banned from baseball for having bet on his own team |
| 1942 | 3rd and 5th Romanian army corp surrenders |
| 1942 | Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized |
| 1942 | Colonel General Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender |
| 1942 | German 4th and 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad |
| 1942 | Japan bombs Port Darwin, Australia |
| 1942 | Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat is torpedoed |
| 1942 | Russian 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don |
| 1942 | Steward Poon Lim begins floating in a raft 133 days |
| 1941 | German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow |
| 1940 | 1st edition of illegal "The Truth" publishes |
| 1940 | Romania signs Driemogendheden pact |
| 1939 | Nazi Governor of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star |
| 1937 | Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy," premieres in New York City |
| 1937 | Emile Janson becomes Belgian premier |
| 1937 | John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," premieres in New York City |
| 1936 | 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce |
| 1936 | Life magazine hit newsstands |
| 1931 | Nationally Crisis Committee forms in Hague |
| 1930 | New York Giant Hap Moran runs 91 yards for a TD from a scrimmage |
| 1926 | Noel Coward's "This Was a Man," premieres in New York City |
| 1923 | German army commander General Von Seeckt bans NSDAP and KPD |
| 1923 | Germany's Stresemann government falls to SPD |
| 1921 | President Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes |
| 1912 | Hamilton Alerts suspended by ORFU for refusing to field a full team in a replay of a protested game |
| 1911 | Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco renamed Letterman General Hospital |
| 1909 | 7.17" (18.2 cm) of rainfall, Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state rec) |
| 1909 | Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes |
| 1906 | Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, convicted of polygamy |
| 1905 | Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physican, named minister of Haiti |
| 1904 | 3rd Olympic games close in St. Louis |
| 1903 | Enrico Caruso U.S. debut (Metropolitan Opera House, New York) in "Rigoletto" |
| 1899 | 1st jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, SF) |
| 1899 | Battle at Belmont, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers |
| 1897 | Andrew J Beard invents "jerry coupler," to connect railroad cars |
| 1897 | Pencil sharpener patented by J L Love |
| 1892 | Battle of Lomani Congo: Belgian unit beats Arabs, 1000-3000 killed |
| 1892 | P de Coubertin launches plan for Modern Olympic Games |
| 1889 | Debut of 1st jukebox (Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco) |
| 1887 | Notre Dame loses its 1st football game 8-0 to Michigan |
| 1887 | Opera "Trumpeter of Sackingen" 1st American production (New York City) |
| 1885 | Amsterdam police attack meeting of social-democrats united |
| 1876 | Columbia, Harvard and Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association |
| 1871 | Railway bridge over Dutch Deep opens |
| 1868 | Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process |
| 1864 | Battle at Ball's Ferry Georgia (30 casualties) |
| 1863 | Battle of Chattanooga and Orchard Knob, Tennessee begins |
| 1863 | Patent granted for a process of making color photographs |
| 1852 | Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30' (9m) |
| 1848 | Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston |
| 1835 | Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine (Troy New York) |
| 1834 | Hector Berlioz's "Harold in Italy," premieres |
| 1832 | French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium |
| 1783 | Annapolis Maryland, becomes U.S. capital (until June 1784) |
| 1765 | People of Frederick County Md refuse to pay England's Stamp tax |
| 1744 | English premier John Carteret resigns |
| 1705 | Nicholas Rowe's "Ulysses," premieres in London |
| 1700 | Cardinal Francesco Albani elected Pope Clemens XI |
| 1584 | English parliament throws out Jesuits |
| 1577 | Water Geuzen under Captain Slope enter Amsterdam |
| 1556 | King Philip II confers with Dutch financial experts |
| 1334 | St. Clemens Flood: Dike breaks at Flemish/Zeeuwse/Dutch coast |
| 1165 | Pope Alexander III returns from exile to Rome |
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