On this day 25th November

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Facts

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 United States

1839 Cyclone slams south eastern India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying 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

1983 World's greatest robbery; 26 million pounds (sterling) worth of gold, diamonds and cash stolen from Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport, England

Deaths

311 Peter of Alexandria, Christian martyr

1626 Edward Alleyn, English actor and founder of Dulwich College, dies at 60

1885 Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1874-85), dies at 27

1948 Kanbun Uechi, karate master (b. 1877)

1968 Upton Beall Sinclair, US author (Jungle), dies at 90

2005 George Best, Northern Irish footballer (Manchester United, Northern Ireland), dies at age 59 after suffering multiple organ failures

1993 Anthony Burgess, British novelist and essayist (A Clockwork Orange), dies of cancer at 76

2010 Bernard Matthews, British poultry industry figure (b. 1930)

2016 Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary, Prime Minister (1959-76) and President (1976-2008), dies at 90

Born on this day

1971 Christina Applegate, actress (Married With Children), born in Hollywood, California

1981 Xabi Alonso, Spanish international footballer

George Best

Fidel Castro