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 city of Coringa. Storm waves sweep inland, destroying 20,000 ships and killing an estimated 300,000 people.
1867 – Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel Patents Dynamite.
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.
1963 – Three days after his assassination in Dallas, Texas, John F. Kennedy is laid to rest with full military honours at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
1970 – Japanese novelist Mishima Yukio and four members of his Shield Society, a private army formed to preserve Japan’s martial spirit, seized a military headquarters in Tokyo, and he later committed seppuku.
1999 – The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution designating November 25 the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
2002 – In London the Agatha Christie play The Mousetrap celebrated its 50th anniversary with a royal gala, having opened on November 25, 1952, and this performance being its 20,807th.
2016 – Cuban political leader Fidel Castro, who transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere and became a symbol of the communist revolution in Latin America, died at age 90.
Film: 2013 – Disney release “Frozen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
