On this day — November 25

Three thousand cars are swept away and 122 people perish in the torrents, with 350 others missing.

killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades.

with a Richter magnitude of 7.0 kills 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, being the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.

Elián González, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.

with effect from January 1, 1993.

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

killing 21.

president of Upper Volta, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Colonel Saye Zerbo.

2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad. He is later assassinated in 1983.

a failed military coup d'état by Portuguese far-left activists seeking to hijack the Portuguese transition to democracy to establish a communist regime.