November 25
Today in America's Present Past
1715 | The First English patent was given to an American for processing corn.
1757 | SCOTUS: Justice Henry Brokolst Livingston was born.
1758 | Indian Wars: Britain captures Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) from French forces.
1783 | War of Independence: British Troops withdraw their last forces (from NYC), marking “Evacuation Day” and their total defeat.
1792 | Civil Rights: Free African-American Benjamin Banneker publishes his first Farmer’s Almanac.
1795 | POTUS: President William Henry Harrison wed Anna Symmes.
1817 | The first sword swallower performs in the U.S. (NYC).
1835 | Entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie was born.
1843 | Entrepreneur Henry Ware Eliot was born.
1846 | Activist Carrie Nation was born.
1863 | Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee.
1864 | Civil War: Confederate attempt to burn NYC is foiled.
1867 | Congress: A commission starts an inquiry into the impeachment of President Johnson.
1874 | Civil Rights: The U.S. Greenback Party was established.
1876 | Indian Wars: U.S. Army forces sack Chief Dull Knife’s sleeping Cheyenne village following the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
1884 | A patent for Evaporated Milk was issued to John B. Meyenberg.
1885 | Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks died.
1897 | Puerto Rico granted independence from Spain.
1912 | American College of Surgeons was founded.
1914 | Baseball Pro Joe DiMaggio was born.
1920 | First Thanksgiving Parade (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
1920 | Radio: First broadcast, play-by-play of a football game (WTAW of College Station, Texas).
1940 | TV: Woody Woodpecker debuted.
1947 | Civil Rights: The Motion Picture Academy institutes a “blacklist” denying opportunities to known or suspected Communists.
1947 | Actor John Larroquette was born.
1949 | Music: “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” sung by Gene Autry, debuted.
1952 | Actor Earnest Harden, Jr. was born.
1957 | POTUS: Republican President Eisenhower suffers a partial stroke.
1958 | Entrepreneur Charles F. Kettering died.
1960 | Radio: The comedy show “Amos ’n’ Andy” concludes.
1960 | Musician Amy Grant was born.
1963 | POTUS: Democrat President Kennedy was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery.
1968 | Novelist Upton Sinclair died.
1986 | POTUS: Republican President Reagan reveals a secret arms deal that erupts into the “Iran-Contra” deal.
2014 | Civil Rights: Nationwide riots erupt in response to police action in Ferguson, Missouri.