NOVEMBER 25 IN HISTORY

EVENTS ON 25th NOVEMBER IN HISTORY

• 1715 - First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
• 1783 - Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in United States
• 1867 - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
• 1884 - John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
• 1960 - First atomic reactor for research & development, Richland, Wa
• 1960 - The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
• 1975 - Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands..
• 1983 - World's greatest robbery 25,000,000 pounds of gold, Heathrow, England
• 1997 - US telephone technician Richard Bliss arrested for spying in Russia
• 2007 - The first European Parliament election and a referendum on changing the voting system (called by the President and declared invalid because of insufficient turnout) were held in Romania.
• 2008 - Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others
• 2014 - Missouri Governor Jay Nixon orders hundreds more US National Guard troops to the town of Ferguson to prevent a second night of rioting and looting