November 25 ...

In 1758 in the French and Indian War, the British captured Fort Duquesne, in present-day Pittsburgh. In 1783 the last British troops left New York City, three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris. In 1881 Pope John XXIII was born Angelo Roncalli near Bergamo, Italy. In 1914 New York Yankee Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio was born in Martinez, CA. In 1944 baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis died at age 78. In 1957 President Eisenhower suffered a slight stroke. In 1963 the body of President Kennedy was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. In 1973 Greek President George Papadopoulos was ousted in a bloodless military coup. In 1974 former UN Secretary-General U Thant died in New York at age 65. In 1976 The Band played their final concert, dubbed The Last Waltz, in San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom. In 1985 Ronald W. Pelton, a former employee of the National Security Agency, was arrested on espionage charges. (Pelton was later convicted of selling secrets to Soviet agents.) In 1999 5-year-old Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off Florida, setting off an international custody battle between relatives in Miami and Elian's father in Cuba. In 2002 President Bush signed legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security, and appointed former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge to be its head.