Today in history

In 1765

County, the British Frederick Md., Stamp repudiated Act.

In 1804

the nation’s was Franklin born 14th in president, Pierce, Hillsboro, N.H. actor Boris

In 1887 Karloff William was Henry born Pratt in London.

In 1889

made its the debut first in jukebox San Francisco, Royale saloon. at the Palais

In 1892

and stage Erte, designer the fashion who made was born his mark Romain in Paris, de Tirtoff Russia. in St. Petersburg,

In 1903

Caruso singer made his Enrico American debut Opera at the Metropolitan House in in New “Rigoletto.” York, appearing

In 1925 Jose Napoleon Duarte, the president of El Salvador from 1984 to 1989, was born in San Salvador.

In 1936 Life, the magazine created by Henry Luce, was first published.

In 1943 during World War II, U.S. forces seized control of Tarawa and Makin atolls from the Japanese.

In 1945 most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, ended.

In 1963 President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed Nov. 25 a day of national mourning following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

In 1971 the People’s Republic of China was seated in the U.N. Security Council.

In 1980 about 4,800 people were killed by a series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy.

In 1992 country music singer Roy Acuff died in Nashville; he was 89.

In 1994 NATO warplanes blasted Serb missile batteries in two air raids while Bosnian Serb fighters, for the first time, broke into the U.N.-designated safe haven of Bihac.

In 1996 a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the waves off Comoros Islands, killing 125 of the 175 people on board.

In 1999 Defense Secretary William Cohen called for a militarywide review of conduct after a Pentagon study said up to 75 percent of blacks and other ethnic minorities reported experiencing racially offensive behavior.

In 2000, in a setback for Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore, the Florida Supreme Court refused to order MiamiDade County to resume counting ballots by hand.

In 2001 the U.N. war crimes tribunal said it would try former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for genocide in Bosnia.

In 2003 Eduard Shevardnadze resigned as president of Georgia in the face of protests.

In 2004 opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko declared himself the winner of Ukraine’s disputed presidential election and took a symbolic oath of office. (He won a courtordered revote in December 2004.) Also in

2004 Dan Rather announced he would step down as principal anchorman of “The CBS Evening News” in March 2005.

In 2006 former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko died in London from radiation poisoning after making a deathbed statement blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin. Also in 2006 car bombs and mortar rounds struck a Shiite slum in Baghdad, killing 215 people.

In 2007 a Canadian cruise ship, the MS Explorer, struck submerged ice off Antarctica and began taking on water, but all 154 passengers and crew took to lifeboats and were plucked to safety by a passing cruise ship.

In 2015 the American Highway Users Alliance named a stretch of the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago the nation’s No. 1 traffic bottleneck.