November 25
1454 - Catherine Cornaro ~ Queen of Cypress
1638 - Catherine of Braganza ~ Queen of Charles II <> House of Stuart <>
1835 - Andrew Carnegie ~ Dunfermline ~ Scottish/American industrialist-philanthropist
1844 - Karl Benz ~ Germany ~ ;-}
1846 - Carrie Nation ~ an example of a genuine hysterical nut case that never found out what her mouth was for :>0
1881 - Pope John XXIII [Angelo Roncalli]
1914 - 'Joltin' Joe DiMaggio ~ Yankee Clipper
1933 - Lenny Moore ~ a true Colt
1960 - John F. Kennedy Jr.
1981 - Barbara & Jenna Bush
~ By the Bye ~
1667 ~ EARTHQUAKE !! Shemakha, in the Caucasus does the job on 80,000
1744 ~ Austrian forces pillage & kill Jews of Prague
1783 ~ Britain evacuates NYC, it's last military position in USA
1834 ~ Delmonico's, one of NY's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee & half a pie for 12 cents
1839 ~ CYCLONE!!! 40 foot storm surge sweeps India, takes out 20,000 ships along with 300,000 folk
1841 ~ 35 survivors of the mutiny on the slaveship Amistad return to Africa
1867 ~ Alfred Nobel patents dynamite...I know, I know, confusing as hell`
1940 ~ Woody Woodpecker debuts
1960 ~ Last broadcast of "Amos'n'Andy"
1963 ~ JFK is laid to rest...on his son's birthday
1973 ~ speed limit cut to 55 mph
1983 ~ THE ROBBERY - 25,000,000 pounds of GOLD ! Heathrow, England
~ G'day ~