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]
- 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.
- 1491 - The Siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1987 – Supertyphoon 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.
- 2000 - The 2000 Baku earthquake, at magnitude 7, kills 26 people.
- 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]
- 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)
- 1714 - Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese amthematician (d. 1783)
- 1752 - Johann Friedrich Reichhardt, German composer, writer and music critic (d. 1814)
- 1778 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British writer (d. 1856)
- 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)
- 1861 - Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer (d. 1917)
- 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)
- 1881 – Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
- 1887 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist and geneticist (d. 1943)
- 1895 – Ludovik Svoboda, Czech statesman (d. 1979)
- 1895 – Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet politician (d. 1978)
- 1896 - Benjamin Travis Laney, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1977)
- 1902 - Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1985)
- 1904 – Ba Jin, Chinese writer (d. 2005)
- 1904 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete (d. 1964)
- 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)
- 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)
- 1923 – Mauno Koivisto, 9th President of Finland
- 1924 - Ante Markovic, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 2011)
- 1924 - Paul Desmond, American jazz musician (d. 1977)
- 1931 - Nat Adderley, American jazz musician (d. 2000)
- 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
- 1941 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani writer and spiritual leader (d. 2001)
- 1941 – Percy Sledge, American musician
- 1944 – Ben Stein, American actor
- 1947 - Jonathan Kaplan, American movie maker
- 1947 - John Larroquette, American actor
- 1951 – Arturo Perez-Reverte, Spanish writer
- 1952 – Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer and politician
- 1952 – John Lynch, 80th Governor of New Hampshire
- 1955 - Bruno Tonioli, Italian choreographer
- 1957 – Bob Ehrlich, 60th Governor of Maryland
- 1957 – Monte Melkonian, Armenian military leader (d. 1993)
- 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
- 1963 - Chip Kelly, American football coach
- 1964 - Bert van Vlaanderen, Dutch long-distance runner
- 1967 - Kazuya Nakai, Japanese voice actor
- 1967 – Anthony Nesty, Surinamese swimmer
- 1970 – Eluana Englaro, Italian patient in right-to-die case (d. 2009)
- 1970 - Magnus Arvedson, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1971 – Christina Applegate, American actress
- 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, daughters of George W. Bush and Laura Bush
- 1984 - Peter Siddle, Australian cricketer
- 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 Spaering, English footballer
- 1989 – Tom Dice, Belgian singer and songwriter
- 1991 - Luca Tremolada, Italian footballer
Deaths [change]
- 1034 – King Malcolm II of Scotland (b. 980)
- 1185 – Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)
- 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)
- 1909 - Edward P. Allen, American politician (b. 1839)
- 1920 – Gaston Chevrolet, French-American racing driver (b. 1892)
- 1925 – Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (b. 1881)
- 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)
- 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 – 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)
- 2001 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani writer and spiritual leader (b. 1941)
- 2005 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)
- 2005 – Richard Burns, British rally driver (b. 1971)
- 2007 – Kevin DuBrow, American rock music singer (b. 1955)
- 2011 - Vasily Alekseyev, Russian weightlifter (b. 1942)
- 2012 - Dave Sexton, English footballer and coach (b. 1930)
Holidays and observances [change]
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: National Day (1943)
- Suriname – Independence Day (from the Netherlands, 1975)
- Christian feast day: Saint Catherine of Alexandria
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
