Morrrrninggg Tala, everyone. Good day to be alive, but then again isn't every day?
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1783 The British evacuated New York, their last military position in the United States, during the Revolutionary War.
1835 Industrialist Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland.
1881 Pope John XXIII was born Angelo Roncalli near Bergamo, Italy.
1914 Baseball hall-of-famer Joe DiMaggio was born in Martinez, Calif.
1944 Baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis died at age 78.
1947 Movie studio executives meeting in New York agreed to blacklist the ''Hollywood 10,'' who were cited a day earlier and jailed for contempt of Congress for failing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a slight stroke.
1963 The body of President John F. Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
1973 Greek President George Papadopoulos was ousted in a bloodless military coup.
1974 Former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant died at age 65.
On Nov. 25, 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.
1987 Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington, died after suffering a heart attack in his City Hall office.
1999 Six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida.
2001 CIA officer Johnny ''Mike'' Spann was killed during a prison uprising in Mazar-e-Sharif, becoming America's first combat casualty of the conflict in Afghanistan.
2002 President George W. Bush signed legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security and appointed Tom Ridge to be its head.
2003 The Senate gave final congressional approval to historic Medicare legislation combining a new prescription drug benefit with measures to control costs before the baby boom generation reaches retirement age.
2003 Yemen arrested Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal, a top al-Qaida member suspected of masterminding the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole and the 2002 bombing of a French oil tanker off Yemen's coast
Birthdays....
President Bush's twin daughters Barbara, left, and Jenna Bush turn 24
85 Ricardo Montalban
Actor (''Fantasy Island'')
63 Tracey Walter
Actor
61 Ben Stein
Actor-game show host
58 John Larroquette
Actor (''Night Court'')
45 Amy Grant
Singer-TV host (''Three Wishes'')
36 Jill Hennessy
Actress (''Crossing Jordan,'' ''Law and Order'')
34 Christina Applegate
Actress (''Married ... With Children'')
Have a good day and a great weekend people. :D