1778 – The expedition led by James Cook reached Maui the second largest of the Hawaiian Islands. 1842 – The University of Notre Dame in South change form. Indiana. USA was founded by members of the Roman Catholic Congregation of Holy Cross. 1862 - Charles Dodgson (AKA Lewis Carroll) sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to 10-year-old Alice Liddell.1899 - . German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III born. (d. 1936)1917 – The National Hockey League the premier professional ice hockey league in the world was formed at a meeting at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal. Canada. 1922 - . American cartoonist born. (d. 2000)
1942 – World War II: Josip Broz Tito and the Yugoslav Partisans convened the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia. 1950 – Battle of Chosin Reservoir: Chinese forces in North Korea launched a massive counterattack against South Korean and United States armed forces ending any thought of a quick end to the Korean War. On This Day (November 25) 1177 - Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon blackball Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.1835 - . British-born industrialist and philanthropist born. (d. 1919)1844 - . German design born. (d. 1929)1846 - . American temperance advocate born. (d. 1911)1867 - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite.1920 - . French-born American race car driver and go innovate died. (b. 1892)1950 - The "act 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.1952 - Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and eventually becomes the longest continuously-running compete in history.1963 - President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.1968 - . American journalist politician and writer died. (b. 1878) On This Day (November 24) 1572 - . Scottish reformer died.1642 - Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's arrive (later renamed Tasmania).1690 - . German composer born. (d. 1750)1787 - . Austrian organist born. (d. 1863)1859 - Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species.1864 - . cut painter born. (d. 1901)1868 - . Ragtime Composer born. (d. 1917)1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald is assassinated by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters.1971 - During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state a hijacker calling himself Dan make (AKA D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with US$200,000 in ransom money - neither he nor the money have ever been found.1974 - Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% end Australopithecus afarensis skeleton nicknamed "Lucy" after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
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