11-25-2012, 06:29 PM
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Location: Maryland
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November 25th
1844 ~ Birthday of Karl Benz, Engineer.
1867 ~ Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
1913 ~ Birthday of Lewis Thomas, Physician & Essayist.
1952 ~ Birthday of Imran Khan, Pakistani test cricketer.
1968 ~ Death of Upton Sinclair, Journalist, Politician, Writer.
1974 ~ Death of U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General.
1986 ~ The Iran-Contra affair became public knowledge.
1998 ~ The Turkish government led by PM Mesut Yilmaz collapsed after losing a no-confidence motion over corruption allegations.
1999 ~ Six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida.
2009 ~ The 2009 Saudi Arabian Floods: Following freak rains swamp the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia during the Hajj pilgrimage.
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