Shimla, Nov 25 Keekli Bureau
2016
Cuban political leader Fidel Castro, who transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere and became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America, died at age 90.
2005
Irish-born football (soccer) player George Best, who was one of the premier forwards in the game’s history and an iconic figure of “Swinging London” during the 1960s, died in London.
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.
1975
Suriname gained its independence from the Netherlands.
1942
Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer chose Los Alamos, New Mexico, as the site of Project Y, which developed the first atomic bomb.
1936
Germany and Japan formed the Anti-Comintern Pact against the Soviet Union.
1914
American baseball player Joe DiMaggio, who was one of the best all-around players in the history of the game, was born.
1863
General Ulysses S. Grant defeated General Braxton Bragg’s Confederate forces in the Battle of Missionary Ridge during the American Civil War.
1846
American temperance advocate Carry Nation, famous for using a hatchet to demolish barrooms, was born.
1277
Nicholas III was elected pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1120
William the Aetheling, duke of Normandy, was killed in a shipwreck on his way to England.
