November 25<\/p>\n
1177 \u2013 Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Ch\u00e2tillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.<\/p>\n
1491 \u2013 The siege of Granada, the last moor stronghold in Spain, ends with Boabdil, the sultan of Granada, and Ferdinand and Isabella, the King and Queen of Castile, Le\u00f3n, Aragon and Sicily, signing a treaty of an immediate truce and a surrender of Granada, taking effect on January 2nd, 1492, completing the nearly 800 year long Reconquista and freeing up resources for other activity, perchance exploration of a shorter route to China.<\/p>\n
1758 \u2013 During the French and Indian War, British forces capture Fort Duquesne located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, from French control. Later, Fort Pitt will be built nearby and grow into modern Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
1783 \u2013 The last British troops leave New York City 3 months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris ending the American War of Independence<\/p>\n
1863 \u2013At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the siege of Chattanooga by Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.<\/p>\n
1876 \u2013\u00a0 In retaliation for the U.S. Cavalry’s defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, U.S troops attack\u00a0 and overwhelm the village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of the Powder River in Wyoming.<\/p>\n
1915 \u2013 Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n
1926 \u2013 A outbreak of tornados across the Southern states in the U.S. results in the deadliest storm total in November at the time, killing 76 people and injuring more than 400.<\/p>\n
1950 \u2013 The Great Appalachian Blizzard of 1950 strikes across 22 states, killing 353 people and injuring more than 160.<\/p>\n
1963 \u2013 In a state funeral, President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n
1986 \u2013\u00a0 U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.<\/p>\n
1999 \u2013 Cuban born, 6 year old, Elian Gonzalez is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.<\/p>\n
2016 \u2013 Fidel Castro dies, age 90.<\/p>\n
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