November 25th, 1963, three days after he's slain in Dallas, the body of President John F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

1986, in Washington, new details about the Iran-Contra Affair engulf President Ronald Reagan's administration. Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese reveal profits from secret arm sales to Iran have been diverted to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

1783, British forces evacuate New York, their last military position in United States during the revolutionary war.

1999, off the Florida coast, fishermen rescue Elian Gonzalez after he survived a shipwreck of trying to reach the U.S. with his mother. An international custody battle's soon enforced between Elian's father in Cuba and the boy's Miami relatives. The following year, the U.S. government removes Elian from those relatives and returns him to his father.

And 1914, Joe DiMaggio, one of baseball's greatest hitters and center fielders is born in Martinez, California.

Today in History, November 25th, Tim Maguire, the Associated Press.

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