Friday, November 25, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

NOVEMBER 25
1963:On a national day of mourning, the body of slain President John F. Kennedy is laid to rest with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery. With leaders from more than 90 nations in attendance at the state funeral, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy lights an eternal flame above her husband's grave.

1867: Alfred Nobel receives a patent for dynamite, a stable combination of nitroglycerin mixed with kieselguhr, a soft sedimentary rock. Dynamite is one of 355 patents that the Swedish chemist and future Nobel Prize creator will hold during his lifetime.

1999: Five-year-old Elian Gonzalez is rescued by two fishermen off the coast of Florida. He will soon become the center of a legal and media uproar as Elian's father in Cuba and his Cuban American relatives in Miami vie for custody of the boy.
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