The History of November 25 from On-This-Day 1850 - Texas relinquished one-third of its territory in exchange for $10 million from the U.S. to pay its public debts and settle border disputes. 1867 - Alfred Nobel patented dynamite. 1957 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a stroke. 1983 - Mediators from Syria and Saudi Arabia announced a cease-fire in the PLO civil war in Tripoli, Lebanon. 1985 - Bobby Brown announced that he was leaving New Edition for a solo career. 1990 - Poland held its first popular presidential election. 1992 - The Czech parliament voted to split the country into separate Czech and Slovak republics beginning January 1, 1993.
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