1. In 1947, the first television station in Alabama, WBRC-TV, began broadcasting in Birmingham.
2. On November 25, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.
3. In 1971, legendary Alabama football coach, Bear Bryant, won his 200th college football game with a victory over Auburn University.
4. On this day in 2002, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute opened the doors to its expanded facility in downtown Birmingham, which includes exhibits on the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama and around the world.
5. The first iron bridge in the United States was completed in 1872 in Florence, Alabama, connecting the city with Sheffield across the Tennessee River. November 25 marks the anniversary of its opening to traffic.