Today in History, 11/25

1120: The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son of Henry I of England.
1177: The siege of Granada, last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
1542: Battle of Solway Moss. The English army defeats the Scots.
1703: The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people perish in the mighty gale.
1758: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is founded.
1783: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
1835: Andrew Carnegie, the industrialist and philanthropist who led the expansion of the American steel industry, is born.1846: Carrie Nation, temperance advocate, is born.1864: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
1867: Alfred Nobel patents dynamite.
1874: The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
1876: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
1914: Joe DiMaggio is born.1920: Ricardo Montalban is born.1926: Jeffery Hunter is born. He played Captian Christopher Pike in the first pilot of Star Trek.

1940: First flight of the deHavilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.1941: Percy Sledge is born.

1944: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, United Kingdom, killing 160 shoppers.
1944: Ben Stein is born.

1947: John Larroquette is born.

1947: Tracy Walter is born.
1950: The "Storm of the Century", a violent snowstorm, paralyzes the northeastern United States and the Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia, records 57 inches of snow. 323 people die due to the storm.
1950: The People's Republic of China joins the Korean War, sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river border to fight United Nations forces.
1963: President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.1971: Christina Applegate is born. She played the easy sister on Married With Children.

1984: 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.

Today in History elements mostly cribbed from The History Channel, Wikipedia, The New York Times, The Jewish World Review, The Writer's Almanac and anything else I can dig up.