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On this day November 25

2348 BC
Biblical scholars have long asserted this to be the day of the Great Deluge, or Flood.

1839
Cyclone slams southeastern India with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge, destroying the city of Coringa. Storm waves sweep inland, destroying 20,000 ships and killing an estimated 300,000 people.

1946
The U.S. Supreme Court grants the Oregon Indians land payment rights from the U.S. government.

1951
A truce line between U.N. troops and North Korea is mapped out at the peace talks in Panmunjom, Korea.

1986
Iran-Contra affair erupts as President Reagan reveals a secret arms deal

1987
Typhoon Nina sticks the Philippines with 165 mph winds and a devastating storm surge and causes over 1,030 deaths.

2020
Dead and buried mink reported rising from the ground due to bloating, after a hurried cull of millions of COVID-19 infected animals in Denmark

2021 Germany's COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000 (Robert Koch Institute) amid its highest surge in infections yet

2021
India has more girls than boys for the first time in its history and its population boom is ending, according to new government survey


Born on November 25

1960
John F. Kennedy Jr., elder son of US Pres. John F. Kennedy (assassinated three days before JFK Jr.'s third birthday); co-founded George magazine in 1995; died in plane crash, July 16, 1999.

1971
Christina Applegate, actress (Married . . . with Children, Samantha Who? TV series).


Joke of the day

I got a vasectomy but my girlfriend still got pregnant.

Apparently, all a vasectomy does is change the color of the baby.