November 25
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November 25 is the 329th day of the year (330th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 36 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Events[change | change source]
Up to 1900[change | change source]
- 571 BC - Servius Tullius, King of Rome, celebrates his victory over the Etruscans.
- 1120 - The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning over 300 people, including William Adelin, son and heir to King Henry I of England.
- 1177 - Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeats Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
- 1343 - An earthquake and tsunami damage the area around Naples.
- 1487 - Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England.
- 1491 - The Siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
- 1610 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc discovers the Orion Nebula.
- 1667 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha, in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
- 1703 - The Great Storm of 1703 across southern Great Britain reaches its height.
- 1758 – French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control.
- 1758 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is founded.
- 1759 - Beirut and Damascus are destroyed by an earthquake, killing between 30,000 and 40,000 people.
- 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
- 1795 - Stanislaus August Poniatowski, the last King of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.
- 1833 - A massive undersea earthquake affects Sumatra.
- 1839 – A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (never to be entirely rebuilt again). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant defeat Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg in the Battle of Chattanooga. The Union therefore take control of Tennessee.
- 1867 – Alfred Nobel patents dynamite.
- 1885 – The Banff National Park in Alberta becomes the first National Park in Canada.
1901 – 1950[change | change source]
- 1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII.
- 1915 - The Ku Klux Klan is re-founded in Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States.
- 1926 - A November tornado outbreak strikes the Midwestern United States, killing 76 people, including 51 in Arkansas alone.
- 1941 - HMS Barham is sunk by a German torpedo during World War II.
- 1943 – Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina was re-established at the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia.
- 1944 – World War II: US forces defeat Japanese forces in the Battle of Peleliu, in Palau, in the western Pacific Ocean.
- 1947 – New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
- 1947 - Red Scare: Hollywood Ten - Hollywood Movie Studios make a blacklist of alleged Communists.
- 1950 – The People's Republic of China joins the Korean War, sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river border to fight United Nations forces.
1951 – 2000[change | change source]
- 1953 – For the first time, the England national football team loses against a team from Continental Europe; the Hungary national football team, by 6-3 at Wembley Stadium.
- 1958 - French Sudan gains autonomy.
- 1960 - The Mirabal sisters are murdered in the Dominican Republic.
- 1963 – President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1970 - In Japan, Yukio Mishima and one compatriot (someone from the same country) commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
- 1973 - In Greece, Georgios Papadopoulos is overthrown in a coup led by Dimitrios Ioannidis.
- 1975 – Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
- 1975 – The dictators of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay form Operation Condor, which aims to track down and kill anyone who expresses left-wing opinions.
- 1980 - Saye Zerbo, in Burkina Faso, overthrows President Sangoule Lamizana, in a coup.
- 1984 – 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
- 1986 - The Iran Contra Affair begins as United States Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from secret weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua.
- 1986 - The King Fahd Causeway opens, linking Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
- 1987 – Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that swallows entire villages. at least 1,036 deaths caused by the storm.
- 1992 – The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993.
- 1996 - An ice storm affects the central United States, killing 26 people.
- 1999 - The UN creates the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
- 2000 - The 2000 Baku earthquake, at magnitude 7, kills 26 people.
From 2001[change | change source]
- 2002 – Reported assassination attempt on Turkmen president Saparmurat Niyazov.
- 2008 - Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people.
- 2008 – 'Yellow Shirt' anti-government demonstrators begin a week-long blockade of Bangkok Airport, forcing the Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat to resign.
- 2009 – Torrential rain in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, causes major flooding, killing 100 people, many of them pilgrims participating in the Hajj Pilgrimage.
- 2012 - A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills over 100 people.
- 2012 - Sebastian Vettel wins the Formula One World Championship for the third year in a row, becoming the youngest driver to win three Formula One World Championships.
Births[change | change source]
Up to 1900[change | change source]
- 1454 - Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus (d. 1510)
- 1501 - Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar (d. 1570)
- 1562 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (d. 1635)
- 1577 – Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander (d. 1629)
- 1609 – Henrietta Maria, daughter of Henry IV of France, Wife of King Charles I of England (d. 1669)
- 1638 – Catherine of Braganza, Queen-Consort of England and Scotland (d. 1705)
- 1666 - Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, Italian violin maker (d. 1740)
- 1714 - Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (d. 1783)
- 1752 - Johann Friedrich Reichhardt, German composer, writer and music critic (d. 1814)
- 1758 - John Armstrong, Jr., American politician (d. 1843)
- 1778 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British writer (d. 1856)
- 1787 - Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian composer (d. 1863)
- 1809 - Adolph E. Borie, American politician (d. 1880)
- 1810 - Nikolay Pirogov, Russian surgeon and educator (d. 1881)
- 1817 - John Bigelow, American statesman and writer (d. 1911)
- 1835 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American businessman (d. 1919)
- 1844 – Karl Benz, German inventor (d. 1929)
- 1845 – Jose Maria de Eca de Queiroz, Portuguese writer (d. 1900)
- 1846 – Carrie Nation, American temperance activist (d. 1911)
- 1856 - Sergei Taneyev, Russian composer (d. 1915)
- 1861 - Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer (d. 1917)
- 1868 - Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1937)
- 1870 - Winthrop Ames, American director, playwright and producer (d. 1937)
- 1872 - Robert Maysack, American gymnast (d. 1960)
- 1873 - Myers Y. Cooper, Governor of Ohio (d. 1958)
- 1874 - Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910)
- 1876 - Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1936)
- 1879 - August Kirch, German politician (d. 1959)
- 1880 - John Flynn, Australian minister (d. 1951)
- 1881 – Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
- 1887 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist and geneticist (d. 1943)
- 1891 - Onishiki Uichiro, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1941)
- 1895 – Ludovik Svoboda, Czech statesman (d. 1979)
- 1895 – Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet politician (d. 1978)
- 1896 - Benjamin Travis Laney, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1977)
- 1896 - Virgil Thomson, American composer (d. 1989)
- 1898 - Debaki Bose, Indian actor, director and writer (d. 1971)
- 1900 - Rudolf Hoess, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1945)
1901 – 1950[change | change source]
- 1902 - Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1985)
- 1904 – Ba Jin, Chinese writer (d. 2005)
- 1904 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete (d. 1964)
- 1907 - John Stuart Hindmarsh, English racing driver (d. 1938)
- 1914 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1915 - Chung Ju-young, Korean entrepreneur and founder of Hyundai (d. 2001)
- 1915 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general and dictator (d. 2006)
- 1915 - Armando Villanueva, Prime Minister of Peru (d. 2013)
- 1917 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (d. 2009)
- 1919 - Norman Tokar, American director (d. 1979)
- 1920 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, King of Malaysia (d. 2000)
- 1920 – Ricardo Montalban, Mexican actor (d. 2009)
- 1920 - Noel Neill, American actress
- 1923 – Mauno Koivisto, 9th President of Finland
- 1924 - Ante Markovic, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 2011)
- 1924 - Paul Desmond, American jazz musician (d. 1977)
- 1926 - Poul Anderson, American writer (d. 2001)
- 1931 - Nat Adderley, American jazz musician (d. 2000)
- 1933 - Kathryn Crosby, American actress and singer
- 1938 - Rosanna Schiaffino, Italian actress (d. 2009)
- 1939 - Martin Feldman, American economist
- 1940 - Reinhard Furrer, American physicist and astronaut (d. 1995)
- 1940 - Joe Gibbs, American NFL coach and NASCAR team owner
- 1940 - Karl Offmann, 3rd President of Mauritius
- 1941 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani writer and spiritual leader (d. 2001)
- 1941 – Percy Sledge, American musician
- 1944 - Maarten 't Hart, Dutch writer
- 1944 – Ben Stein, American actor
- 1947 - Jonathan Kaplan, American movie maker
- 1947 - John Larroquette, American actor
- 1950 - Jocelyn Brown, American singer
- 1950 - Giorgio Faletti, Italian author, screenwriter and actor (d. 2014)
1951 – 1975[change | change source]
- 1951 – Arturo Perez-Reverte, Spanish writer
- 1952 – Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer and politician
- 1952 – John Lynch, 80th Governor of New Hampshire
- 1953 - Graham Eadie, Australian rugby player
- 1953 - Jeffrey Skilling, American businessman and fraudster
- 1955 - Bruno Tonioli, Italian choreographer
- 1957 – Bob Ehrlich, 60th Governor of Maryland
- 1957 – Monte Melkonian, Armenian military leader (d. 1993)
- 1959 - Steve Rothery, English guitarist
- 1959 – Charles Kennedy, Scottish politician, former leader of the British Liberal Democrats
- 1960 – John F. Kennedy Jr., son of John F. Kennedy (d. 1999)
- 1960 – Amy Grant, American singer
- 1962 - Hironobu Sakaguchi, Japanese video game designer
- 1962 - Blythe Duff, Scottish actress
- 1963 - Chip Kelly, American football coach
- 1964 - Bert van Vlaanderen, Dutch long-distance runner
- 1965 - Dougray Scott, Scottish actor
- 1966 - Tim Armstrong, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
- 1966 - Billy Burke, American actor
- 1967 - Kazuya Nakai, Japanese voice actor
- 1967 – Anthony Nesty, Surinamese swimmer
- 1968 - Jacqueline Hennessy, Canadian actress and journalist
- 1968 - Galin Nikov, Bulgarian pole vaulter
- 1970 – Eluana Englaro, Italian patient in right-to-die case (d. 2009)
- 1970 - Magnus Arvedson, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1971 – Christina Applegate, American actress
- 1972 - Deepa Marathe, Indian cricketer
- 1972 - Mark Morton, American guitarist and songwriter
- 1973 - Steven de Jongh, Dutch cyclist
- 1973 - Eddie Steeples, American actor
From 1976[change | change source]
- 1976 - Clint Mathis, American soccer player
- 1976 - Olena Vitrychenko, Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast
- 1978 – Ringo Shiina, Japanese singer
- 1979 - Sandrine Bailly, French biathlete
- 1980 – Aaron Mokoena, South African footballer
- 1980 - John-Michael Liles, American ice hockey player
- 1981 - Lee Bum-Ho, South Korean baseball player
- 1981 – Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer
- 1981 – Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush Hager, daughters of George W. Bush and Laura Bush
- 1981 - Jared Jeffries, American basketball player
- 1983 - Kirsty Crawford, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress
- 1983 - Jhulen Goswami, Indian cricketer
- 1984 - Peter Siddle, Australian cricketer
- 1984 - Gaspard Ulliel, French actor
- 1985 – Marcus Hellner, Swedish skier
- 1986 – Katie Cassidy, American actress and singer
- 1986 - Amber Hagerman, American murder victim (d. 1996)
- 1986 - Craig Gardner, English footballer
- 1987 – Dolla, American rapper (d. 2009)
- 1988 – Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (d. 2010)
- 1988 – Jay Spearing, English footballer
- 1989 – Tom Dice, Belgian singer and songwriter
- 1991 - Luca Tremolada, Italian footballer
- 1991 - Kevin Woo, American-South Korean singer
Deaths[change | change source]
Up to 1900[change | change source]
- 311 - Pope Peter III of Alexandria
- 1034 – King Malcolm II of Scotland (b. 980)
- 1120 - William Adelin, son and heir of Henry I of England
- 1185 – Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)
- 1326 - Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1294)
- 1374 - Philip II, Prince of Taranto (b. 1329)
- 1560 – Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (b. 1466)
- 1700 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (b. 1643)
- 1766 - Johann Maria Farina, Italian perfumer and entrepreneur (b. 1685)
- 1865 – Heinrich Barth, German explorer (b. 1821)
- 1884 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)
- 1885 – King Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857)
- 1885 – Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice President of the United States (b. 1819)
1901 – 2000[change | change source]
- 1909 - Edward P. Allen, American politician (b. 1839)
- 1920 – Gaston Chevrolet, French-American racing driver (b. 1892)
- 1925 – Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (b. 1881)
- 1935 - Iyasu V, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1897)
- 1941 - Pedro Aguirre Cerda, President of Chile (b. 1879)
- 1944 – Kunio Nakagawa, Japanese military commander (b. 1898)
- 1944 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American baseball commissioner (b. 1866)
- 1948 - Kanbun Uechi, Japanese karate master (b. 1877)
- 1950 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer (b. 1873)
- 1956 - Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet movie director (b. 1894)
- 1957 – Prince George of Greece and Denmark (b. 1869)
- 1960 - Mirabal sisters:
- Patria Mirabal, Dominican activist (b. 1924)
- Minerva Mirabal, Dominican activist (b. 1926)
- Maria Teresa Mirabal, Dominican activist (b. 1935)
- 1963 - Alexander Marinesko, Russian navy officer (b. 1913)
- 1965 – Myra Hess, British pianist (b. 1890)
- 1968 – Upton Sinclair, American journalist, politician, and writer (b. 1878)
- 1970 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (b. 1925)
- 1972 - Hans Scharoun, German architect (b. 1893)
- 1974 - Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
- 1974 – U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General (b. 1909)
- 1981 - Jack Albertson, American actor, singer, comedian, musician, and dancer (b. 1907)
- 1984 - Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian statesman (b. 1913)
- 1987 - Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1922)
- 1990 - Merab Mamardashvili, Georgian philosopher (b. 1930)
- 1996 – Hastings Banda, President of Malawi (b. c. 1907)
- 1998 – Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (b. 1906)
From 2001[change | change source]
- 2001 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani writer and spiritual leader (b. 1941)
- 2002 - Karel Reisz, Czech-British director (b. 1926)
- 2005 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)
- 2005 – Richard Burns, English rally driver (b. 1971)
- 2007 – Kevin DuBrow, American rock music singer (b. 1955)
- 2011 - Vasily Alekseyev, Russian weightlifter (b. 1942)
- 2012 - Lars Hormander, Swedish mathematician (b. 1931)
- 2012 - Dave Sexton, English footballer and coach (b. 1930)
- 2013 - Bill Foulkes, English footballer (b. 1932)
- 2013 - Chico Hamilton, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1921)
- 2014 - Denham Harman, American scientist (b. 1916)
- 2014 - Petr Hapka, Czech composer (b. 1944)
Holidays and observances[change | change source]
- Bosnia and Herzegovina - National Day (1943)
- Suriname – Independence Day (from the Netherlands, 1975)
- New York - Evacuation Day
- Christian feast day: Saint Catherine of Alexandria
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women