Daily Calendar for Wednesday, November 25, 2026

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Franz Gruber (composer) – 1787
Andrew Carnegie (industrialist) – 1835
Georg Kaiser (dramatist) – 1878
Virgil Thomson (composer) – 1896
Helen Gahagan Douglas (politician) – 1900
Joe DiMaggio (baseball player) – 1914
John Larroquette (actor) – 1947
Amy Grant (singer) – 1960
John F. Kennedy, Jr. (son of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy) – 1960
Christina Applegate (actress) – 1971
Barbara Pierce Bush and Jenna Welch Bush (fraternal twin daughters of President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush) – 1981

First sword-swallower performance in the U.S. – 1817
First YMCA in North America opened, in Montreal, Quebec – 1851
Last log entry for Mary Celeste before crew disappeared – 1872
Greenback Party (originally, National Independent Party) organized – 1874
American College of Surgeons incorporated – 1912
Albert Einstein formulated his general theory of relativity – 1915
The first door to King Tut’s tomb was opened – 1922
President John F. Kennedy was buried at 3:34 pm EST in Arlington National Cemetery – 1963
Robert S. Ledley granted a patent for CAT scan – 1975
Rene Levesque became premier of Quebec – 1976
U.S. chess champion John Donaldson wed Soviet champion Elena Akhmilovskaya – 1988
Ireland voted to legalize divorce – 1995

A tornado ripped through Portland, Arkansas – 1926
West Virginia received 57 inches of snow – 1950
Winds atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire were recorded at 160 miles per hour – 1950
Steubenville, Ohio, received 36.3 inches of snow – 1950
A blizzard hit the Appalachian states and nearby areas. Hartford, Connecticut, recorded gusts of 100 miles (160km) per hour. – 1950