11-25-2004, 06:34 AM
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November 25th
311 ~ Execution of Peter of Alexandria, "The Seal of the Martyrs", believed to be the last one to lose his life for the faith in the Diocletian Persecutions.
1783 ~ American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
1844 ~ Birthday of Karl Benz, Engineer.
1913 ~ Birthday of Lewis Thomas, Physician & Essayist.
1926 ~ Birthday of Poul Anderson, Science Fiction writer.
1940 ~ Woody Woodpecker first appeared in the film "Knock Knock".
1947 ~ New Zealand ratified the Statute of Westminster and thus became independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
1968 ~ Death of Upton Sinclair, Journalist, Politician, Writer.
1984 ~ 36 of Britain and Ireland's top pop musicians gathered as Band Aid to record the song "Do They Know It's Christmas" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
1992 ~ The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly voted to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia starting on January 1, 1993.
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