November 25th, 2009

Today in History

1986:
Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

1984:
A KCR train goes off track between Sheung Shui and Fanling.

1958:
French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.

1952:
Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London, still the longest continuously running play in history).

1177:
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeats Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.