On This Day: Thursday November 25

On This Day: Thursday November 25, 2004

This is the 330th day of the year, with 36 days remaining in 2004.

Holidays Feast day of St Moses the Martyr and St Mercurius of Caesarea.

Suriname: Independence Day (from Netherlands).

Canada: St. Catherine's Day (patron saint of maidens, mechanics, philosophers).

Events 2348 B.C.E. - The date, according to many chronologists of the Great Flood/deluge.

1602 - Explorer Sebastiaacuten Vizcaiacuteno gave Santa Catalina Island its present name.

1758 - The British captured Fort Duquesne in the French and Indian War.

1783 - The British evacuated New York City, their last military position of the Revolutionary War. George Washington entered the city in triumph. The British had captured the city in 1776 and held it for seven years.

1884 - Evaporated milk was patented by John Mayenberg of St Louis.

1952 - Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opened at London's Ambassadors Theatre -- starting the longest continuous run of any theatrical show in the world.

1963 - Assassinated President John F. Kennedy was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.

1973 - Greek President George Papadopoulos was ousted in a bloodless military coup.

1974 - The British government outlaws the IRA in all of Great Britain, including Northern Ireland., after IRA bombs hurt and killed many in Birmingham, England.

1975 - Suriname, formerly called Dutch Guiana, became an independent republic.

1986 - President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese divulged that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels, revealing the Iran-Contra Affair.

Births 1835 - Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist, philanthropist.

1844 - Carl Benz, German engineer and car manufacturer.

1846 - Carry Nation, US temperance advocate.

1914 - Joe Dimaggio, baseball Hall-of-Famer.

1960 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., attorney, cofounder of George magazine, son of JFK.