Today is Tuesday, Nov. 25, the 330th day of 2008. There are 36 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
One hundred years ago, on Nov. 25, 1908, the first issue of The Christian Science Monitor was published.
On this date:
In 1758, during the French and Indian War, the British captured Fort Duquesne in present-day Pittsburgh.
In 1783, the British evacuated New York, their last military position in the United States during the Revolutionary War.
In 1881, Pope John XXIII was born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli near Bergamo, Italy.
In 1947, movie studio executives meeting in New York agreed to …
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