Daily Calendar for Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Born
- Franz Gruber (composer) β
- Andrew Carnegie (industrialist) β
- Georg Kaiser (dramatist) β
- Virgil Thomson (composer) β
- Helen Gahagan Douglas (politician) β
- Joe DiMaggio (baseball player) β
- John Larroquette (actor) β
- Amy Grant (singer) β
- John F. Kennedy, Jr. (son of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy) β
- Christina Applegate (actress) β
- Barbara Pierce Bush and Jenna Welch Bush (fraternal twin daughters of President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush) β
Died
- Upton Sinclair (writer) β
- Flip Wilson (actor & comedian) β
- Rance Howard (actor) β
Events
- First sword-swallower performance in the U.S. β
- First YMCA in North America opened, in Montreal, Quebec β
- Last log entry for Mary Celeste before crew disappeared
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- Greenback Party (originally, National Independent Party) organized β
- American College of Surgeons incorporated β
- Albert Einstein formulated his general theory of relativity β
- The first door to King Tut’s tomb was opened β
- President John F. Kennedy was buried at 3:34 pm EST in Arlington National Cemetery β
- Robert S. Ledley granted a patent for CAT scan β
- Rene Levesque became premier of Quebec β
- U.S. chess champion John Donaldson wed Soviet champion Elena Akhmilovskaya β
- Ireland voted to legalize divorce β
Weather
- A tornado ripped through Portland, Arkansas β
- Steubenville, Ohio, received 36.3 inches of snow β
- West Virginia received 57 inches of snow β
- A blizzard hit the Appalachian states and nearby areas. Hartford, Connecticut, recorded gusts of 100 miles (160km) per hour. β
- Winds atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire were recorded at 160 miles per hour β
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