5 big international events that happened today

Interesting and groundbreaking things happen every day.

Here are just a few of the biggest events that took place today (November 25) back in history:

• 1177 – Battle of Montgisard: Baldwin IV of Jerusalem defeats Saladin and a larger Ayyubid force.
• 1783 – Britain evacuates New York City, its last military position in the United States.
• 1839 – Cyclone slams south eastern 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.
• 1867 – Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite.
• 1905 – Telimco makes the first-ever advertisement for a radio set by advertising a $7.50 set in the ‘Scientific American’, which claimed to receive signals for up to one mile.

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