Daily Calendar for Monday, November 25, 2013

Franz Gruber (composer) – 1787
Andrew Carnegie (industrialist) – 1835
Georg Kaiser (dramatist) – 1878
Virgil Thomson (composer) – 1896
Helen Gahagan Douglas (politician) – 1900
Joe DiMaggio (baseball player) – 1914
John Larroquette (actor) – 1947
Amy Grant (singer) – 1960
John F. Kennedy, Jr. (son of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy) – 1960
Christina Applegate (actress) – 1971
Barbara Pierce Bush and Jenna Welch Bush (fraternal twin daughters of President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush) – 1981

First sword-swallower performance in the U.S.– 1817
First YMCA in North America opened, in Montreal, Quebec– 1851
Last log entry for Mary Celeste before crew disappeared – 1872
Greenback Party (originally, National Independent Party) organized– 1874
American College of Surgeons incorporated– 1912
Albert Einstein formulated his general theory of relativity– 1915
The first door to King Tut’s tomb was opened– 1922
President John F. Kennedy was buried at 3:34 pm EST in Arlington National Cemetery– 1963
Robert S. Ledley granted a patent for CAT scan– 1975
Rene Levesque became premier of Quebec– 1976
U.S. chess champion John Donaldson wed Soviet champion Elena Akhmilovskaya– 1988
Ireland voted to legalize divorce– 1995

A tornado ripped through Portland, Arkansas– 1926
Steubenville, Ohio, received 36.3 inches of snow– 1950
West Virginia received 57 inches of snow– 1950
A blizzard hit the Appalachian states and nearby areas. Hartford, Connecticut, recorded gusts of 100 miles (160km) per hour.– 1950
Winds atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire were recorded at 160 miles per hour– 1950