February 9, 2025

This Day in History

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Shimla, Nov 25 Keekli Bureau

This Day in History

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.

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