November 25th is the date of the start of Noah’s Flood, according to the Anglican Bishop Ussher More realistically, it is the anniversary of, among other events, the defeat of Saladin by King Baldwin of Jerusalem at Montgisard, the British capture Fort Duquesne from the French, Evacuation Day, on which the British left New York City and the United States, the disappearance of British diplomat Benjamin Bathurst, the Confederate attempt to burn New York, Alfred Nobel’s invention of dynamite, the loss of the troop transport Rohna with over 1000 American troops, and the commissioning of the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise (CVN 65), which will serve until 2012 Births on this date include those of Spanish naval officer and playwright Félix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio, Dutch naval hero Piet Hein, sometime sergeant Angelo Roncalli aka Pope John XXIII, and Stalin’s henchman Anastas I Mikoyan Deaths on this date include those of Prince William of England, King Alfonso XII of Spain, Bill Bojangles Robinson, and fascistic Japanese author Yukio Mishima For more events of this date, see strategypage/today-in-military-history.aspx
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 22:52:11 +0000
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