November 25
1758 - The British captured Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) in the French and Indian Wars.
1783 - The British evacuated New York City, their last military position, after the Revolutionary War.
1841 - The slaves who seized the Amistad in 1839 were freed by the Supreme Court. They had been defended by former President John Quincy Adams.
1915 - A new version of the Ku Klux Klan, targeting Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants was founded by William Joseph Simons.
1947 - Movie studio executives agreed to blacklist the Hollywood 10, who were jailed a day earlier for contempt of Congress for failing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
1961 - The first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, was commissioned.
1963 - The body of President John F. Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
1973 - Greek President George Papadopoulos was ousted in a bloodless military coup.
1986 - The Iran-Contra scandal broke as President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.
1998 - Jiang Zemin became the first Chinese head of state to visit Japan since World War II.
1999 - Six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida.
2002 - President George W. Bush signed legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security and named Tom Ridge as its head.
2003 - The Senate gave final congressional approval to Medicare legislation combining a new prescription drug benefit with measures to control costs before the baby boom generation reaches retirement age.
2006 - Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a cease-fire to end a five-month Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and the firing of rockets by Palestinian militants into the Jewish state.
2009 - Toyota said it would replace the gas pedals on 4 million vehicles in the United States because the pedals could get stuck in the floor mats and cause sudden acceleration.
2014 - Attorneys for Michael Brown’s family vowed to push for federal charges against the Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who killed the Black 18-year-old, a day after a grand jury declined to indict Darren Wilson. (The Justice Department later declined to prosecute Wilson.) President Barack Obama sharply rebuked protesters for racially charged violence in Ferguson, saying there was no excuse for burning buildings, torching cars and destroying other property.
2016 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro died at age 90.
2018 - U.S. border agents fired tear gas on hundreds of migrants protesting near the border with Mexico after some of them tried to get through the fencing and wire separating the two countries; U.S. authorities temporarily shut down the border crossing from Tijuana, Mexico, where thousands were waiting to apply for asylum.
2019 - A federal judge said former White House counsel Donald McGahn would have to appear before Congress to testify in the impeachment investigation. (An appeals court later undid that ruling, finding that federal judges had no role to play in the subpoena fight.) Defense Secretary Mark Esper said President Donald Trump had ordered him to stop a disciplinary review of a Navy SEAL, Edward Gallagher, who was accused of battlefield misconduct.
2019 - Charles Schwab announced that it was buying rival TD Ameritrade, which would combine two of the biggest players in the online brokerage industry.
Birthdays
23 - Lovey James (singer)
30 - Stephanie Hsu (actress)
30 - Maura Higgins (reality star)
34 - Katie Cassidy (actress)
39 - Jenna Bush Hager (daughter of President George W. Bush)
39 - Barbara Pierce Bush (daughter of President George W. Bush)
40 - Valerie Azlynn (actress)
41 - Joel Kinnaman (actor)
41 - Jerry Ferrara (actor)
43 - Jill Flint (actress)
44 - Donovan McNabb (football player)
45 - Kristian Nairn (actor)
47 - Eddie Steeples (actor)
49 - Christina Applegate (actress)
51 - Jill Hennessy (actress)
54 - Stacy Lattisaw (singer)
54 - Billy Burke (actor)
55 - Steve Harris (actor)
57 - Sonja Morgan (reality star)
57 - Kevin Chamberlin (actor)
57 - Bernie Kosar (football player)
60 - Amy Grant (singer)
73 - John Larroquette (actor)
76 - Ben Stein (author/actor/economist)
78 - Bob Lind (singer)
80 - Joe Gibbs (football coach)
83 - Christopher Riordan (actor)
87 - Kathryn Crosby (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 25
1897 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 6-0 to end the season at 5-1 and win the Western Inter-State conference title (3-0).
1905 - Nebraska defeats Doane 43-5.
1909 - Haskell defeats Nebraska 16-5 to end the year at 3-3-2 and finished in 5th place in the Missouri Valley (0-1-1).
1911 - Nebraska and Michigan play to a 6-6 tie. Nebraska ends the season with a 5-1-2 record and won the Missouri Valley Conference title (2-0-1).
1916 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 34-17.
1920 - Washington State defeats Nebraska 21-20 to end the year at 5-3-1.
1921 - The first play-by-play broadcast of a football game was aired in College Station, TX, via an amateur radio station. The game was between the University of Texas and Texas A&M in Austin.
1922 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 54-6.
1926 - Washington defeats Nebraska 10-6. NU ends the year at 6-2 and finishes as runner-up in the Missouri Valley (5-1).
1933 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 7-6.
1939 - Nebraska upsets #14 Oklahoma 13-7 to end the season with a 7-1-1 record and as runner-up in the Big 6 (4-1); NU was ranked #18 in the final AP Poll.
1944 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 35-0.
1950 - #1 Oklahoma defeats #16 Nebraska 49-35 to end the year at 6-2-1 and as Big 7 runner-up (4-2); NU is ranked #17 and #20 in the final polls.
1961 - Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 21-14 to end the year at 3-6-1 and in fifth place in the Big 8 (2-5).
1965 - #3 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 21-9 to win the Big 8 with a 7-0 league record.
1965 - The first color broadcast of an NFL game aired on CBS. The Detroit Lions and the Baltimore Colts played to a 24-24 tie.
1971 - Auburn quarterback Pat Sullivan wins the Heisman Trophy.
1971 - #1 Nebraska defeats #2 Oklahoma 35-31 in the "Game of the Century" to clinch the Big 8 championship (7-0).
1976 - Running back O.J. Simpson of the Buffalo Bills rushed for 273 yards in a game against the Detroit Lions.
1977 - #3 Oklahoma defeats #11 Nebraska 38-7 to finish as Big 8 runner-up (5-2).
1979 - Pat Summerall and John Madden team up to call their first football game, a pairing that would last for 22 years and make them one of the most well-known partnerships in sportscasting history.
1994 - #1 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 13-3 to win the Big 8 championship (7-0).
2002 - Pete Rose and baseball commissioner Bud Selig met secretly to discuss Rose's lifetime ban from baseball.
2005 - Nebraska defeats Colorado 30-3 to finish as runner-up in the Big 12 North (4-4).
2008 - Football player Michael Vick pleaded guilty to a Virginia dogfighting charge and received a three-year suspended sentence.
2011 - #22 Nebraska defeats Cockeye 20-7 to finish third in the Big Ten Legends Division (5-3).
2016 - Cockeye upsets #17 Nebraska 40-10 to finish as runner-up in the Big Ten West (6-3).
2018 - Philip Rivers of the Los Angeles Chargers sets an NFL single-game record by completing 25 consecutive passes in a 45-10 win over the Arizona Cardinals; Mark Brunell and David Carr previously shared the old record of 22. Rivers also set a new NFL record with a completion percentage of 96.6.
2019 - Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson becomes the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for 3,000 yards and rush for over 1,500 yards in his first two seasons.
1758 - The British captured Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) in the French and Indian Wars.
1783 - The British evacuated New York City, their last military position, after the Revolutionary War.
1841 - The slaves who seized the Amistad in 1839 were freed by the Supreme Court. They had been defended by former President John Quincy Adams.
1915 - A new version of the Ku Klux Klan, targeting Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants was founded by William Joseph Simons.
1947 - Movie studio executives agreed to blacklist the Hollywood 10, who were jailed a day earlier for contempt of Congress for failing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
1961 - The first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, was commissioned.
1963 - The body of President John F. Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
1973 - Greek President George Papadopoulos was ousted in a bloodless military coup.
1986 - The Iran-Contra scandal broke as President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.
1998 - Jiang Zemin became the first Chinese head of state to visit Japan since World War II.
1999 - Six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida.
2002 - President George W. Bush signed legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security and named Tom Ridge as its head.
2003 - The Senate gave final congressional approval to Medicare legislation combining a new prescription drug benefit with measures to control costs before the baby boom generation reaches retirement age.
2006 - Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a cease-fire to end a five-month Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and the firing of rockets by Palestinian militants into the Jewish state.
2009 - Toyota said it would replace the gas pedals on 4 million vehicles in the United States because the pedals could get stuck in the floor mats and cause sudden acceleration.
2014 - Attorneys for Michael Brown’s family vowed to push for federal charges against the Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who killed the Black 18-year-old, a day after a grand jury declined to indict Darren Wilson. (The Justice Department later declined to prosecute Wilson.) President Barack Obama sharply rebuked protesters for racially charged violence in Ferguson, saying there was no excuse for burning buildings, torching cars and destroying other property.
2016 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro died at age 90.
2018 - U.S. border agents fired tear gas on hundreds of migrants protesting near the border with Mexico after some of them tried to get through the fencing and wire separating the two countries; U.S. authorities temporarily shut down the border crossing from Tijuana, Mexico, where thousands were waiting to apply for asylum.
2019 - A federal judge said former White House counsel Donald McGahn would have to appear before Congress to testify in the impeachment investigation. (An appeals court later undid that ruling, finding that federal judges had no role to play in the subpoena fight.) Defense Secretary Mark Esper said President Donald Trump had ordered him to stop a disciplinary review of a Navy SEAL, Edward Gallagher, who was accused of battlefield misconduct.
2019 - Charles Schwab announced that it was buying rival TD Ameritrade, which would combine two of the biggest players in the online brokerage industry.
Birthdays
23 - Lovey James (singer)
30 - Stephanie Hsu (actress)
30 - Maura Higgins (reality star)
34 - Katie Cassidy (actress)
39 - Jenna Bush Hager (daughter of President George W. Bush)
39 - Barbara Pierce Bush (daughter of President George W. Bush)
40 - Valerie Azlynn (actress)
41 - Joel Kinnaman (actor)
41 - Jerry Ferrara (actor)
43 - Jill Flint (actress)
44 - Donovan McNabb (football player)
45 - Kristian Nairn (actor)
47 - Eddie Steeples (actor)
49 - Christina Applegate (actress)
51 - Jill Hennessy (actress)
54 - Stacy Lattisaw (singer)
54 - Billy Burke (actor)
55 - Steve Harris (actor)
57 - Sonja Morgan (reality star)
57 - Kevin Chamberlin (actor)
57 - Bernie Kosar (football player)
60 - Amy Grant (singer)
73 - John Larroquette (actor)
76 - Ben Stein (author/actor/economist)
78 - Bob Lind (singer)
80 - Joe Gibbs (football coach)
83 - Christopher Riordan (actor)
87 - Kathryn Crosby (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 25
1897 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 6-0 to end the season at 5-1 and win the Western Inter-State conference title (3-0).
1905 - Nebraska defeats Doane 43-5.
1909 - Haskell defeats Nebraska 16-5 to end the year at 3-3-2 and finished in 5th place in the Missouri Valley (0-1-1).
1911 - Nebraska and Michigan play to a 6-6 tie. Nebraska ends the season with a 5-1-2 record and won the Missouri Valley Conference title (2-0-1).
1916 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 34-17.
1920 - Washington State defeats Nebraska 21-20 to end the year at 5-3-1.
1921 - The first play-by-play broadcast of a football game was aired in College Station, TX, via an amateur radio station. The game was between the University of Texas and Texas A&M in Austin.
1922 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 54-6.
1926 - Washington defeats Nebraska 10-6. NU ends the year at 6-2 and finishes as runner-up in the Missouri Valley (5-1).
1933 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 7-6.
1939 - Nebraska upsets #14 Oklahoma 13-7 to end the season with a 7-1-1 record and as runner-up in the Big 6 (4-1); NU was ranked #18 in the final AP Poll.
1944 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 35-0.
1950 - #1 Oklahoma defeats #16 Nebraska 49-35 to end the year at 6-2-1 and as Big 7 runner-up (4-2); NU is ranked #17 and #20 in the final polls.
1961 - Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 21-14 to end the year at 3-6-1 and in fifth place in the Big 8 (2-5).
1965 - #3 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 21-9 to win the Big 8 with a 7-0 league record.
1965 - The first color broadcast of an NFL game aired on CBS. The Detroit Lions and the Baltimore Colts played to a 24-24 tie.
1971 - Auburn quarterback Pat Sullivan wins the Heisman Trophy.
1971 - #1 Nebraska defeats #2 Oklahoma 35-31 in the "Game of the Century" to clinch the Big 8 championship (7-0).
1976 - Running back O.J. Simpson of the Buffalo Bills rushed for 273 yards in a game against the Detroit Lions.
1977 - #3 Oklahoma defeats #11 Nebraska 38-7 to finish as Big 8 runner-up (5-2).
1979 - Pat Summerall and John Madden team up to call their first football game, a pairing that would last for 22 years and make them one of the most well-known partnerships in sportscasting history.
1994 - #1 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 13-3 to win the Big 8 championship (7-0).
2002 - Pete Rose and baseball commissioner Bud Selig met secretly to discuss Rose's lifetime ban from baseball.
2005 - Nebraska defeats Colorado 30-3 to finish as runner-up in the Big 12 North (4-4).
2008 - Football player Michael Vick pleaded guilty to a Virginia dogfighting charge and received a three-year suspended sentence.
2011 - #22 Nebraska defeats Cockeye 20-7 to finish third in the Big Ten Legends Division (5-3).
2016 - Cockeye upsets #17 Nebraska 40-10 to finish as runner-up in the Big Ten West (6-3).
2018 - Philip Rivers of the Los Angeles Chargers sets an NFL single-game record by completing 25 consecutive passes in a 45-10 win over the Arizona Cardinals; Mark Brunell and David Carr previously shared the old record of 22. Rivers also set a new NFL record with a completion percentage of 96.6.
2019 - Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson becomes the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for 3,000 yards and rush for over 1,500 yards in his first two seasons.