ON NOVEMBER 25 ...

In 1758 in the French and Indian War, the British captured Fort Duquesne in present-day Pittsburgh.

In 1783 the English evacuated New York, their last military position in the United States during the Revolutionary War.

In 1914 baseball great Joe DiMaggio was born in Martinez, Calif.

In 1963 the body of President John F. Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

In 1973

Greek President George Papadopoulos was ousted in a bloodless military coup.

In 1980 Sugar Ray Leonard regained the World Boxing Council welterweight championship when Roberto Duran abruptly quit late in the eighth round of their fight at the Superdome in New Orleans.

In 1986 the Iran-contra affair erupted when President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese disclosed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.

In 1987

Harold Washington, Chicago’s first black mayor, died after suffering a heart attack in his City Hall office; he was 65.

In 1999 Elian Gonzalez was rescued by fishermen off the Florida coast; the 5-year-old boy’s rescue set off an international custody battle between relatives in Miami and Elian’s father in Cuba.

In 2002 President George W. Bush signed legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security, and appointed Tom Ridge to be its head.

In 2005 Palestinians took control of a border for the first time with the festive opening of the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt.

In 2014 federal judges in Arkansas and Mississippi ruled that those states’ bans on same-sex marriage were unconstitutional. Also in 2014 the Food and Drug Administration unveiled rules governing calories displayed on retail menus.

In 2016 former President Fidel Castro, whoembraced Soviet-style communism in Cuba and defied the power of 11 U.S. administrations during his half century rule, died; he was 90. Also in 2016 protesters attempted to stop holiday shopping along parts of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile for the second year, urging a Black Friday boycott to demand civilian oversight of city law enforcement amid highprofile police shootings and gun violence.