
November 25 is the 329th (in leap years the 330th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 36 days remaining. ==Events== *1034 - Malcolm II of Scotland dies. Duncan I of Scotland, the son of his second daughter, instead of Macbeth of Scotland, the son of his eldest daughter, inherits the throne. *1120 - Wreck of the White Ship in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son of Henry I of England. *1177 - Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeats Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard. *1491 - The siege of Granada, last Moors stronghold in Spain, begins. * 1542 - Battle of Solway Moss. An English army invades Scotland and defeats a Scottish army. *1758 - French and Indian War: Kingdom of Great Britain forces capture Fort Duquesne from France control. *1783 - American Revolutionary War: The last Kingdom of Great Britain troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris (1783). * 1795 - Partitions of Poland: Stanislaus II Augustus Poniatowski of Poland, the last List of Polish rulers of independent Poland, was forced to abdication and move to Russia. *1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge - At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, United States forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate States of America troops under General Braxton Bragg. *1874 - The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party made primarily of farmers financially hurt by the Panic of 1873. *1876 - Indian Wars: In retaliation for the dramatic United States defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River (Montana). *1905 - Haakon VII of Norway arrives in Norway. *1913 - Panama becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention copyright treaty. *1936 - In Berlin, Nazi-Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, thus agreeing to consult on what measures to take "to safeguard their common interests" in case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. *1940 - Woody Woodpecker first appears, in the film "Knock Knock". *1944 - World War II: A Germany V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, killing 160 shoppers. *1947 - Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood, California movie studios. *1947 - New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster 1931 and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom. *1952 - Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play ''The Mousetrap'' opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London, still the longest continuously running play in history). *1953 - The England national football team suffer England v Hungary (1953) *1958 - French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community. *1960 - The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic were assassinated . *1963 - John F. Kennedy assassination: John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. *1970 - In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after failing to sway public opinion during an unsuccessful coup attempt. *1973 - Greece President George Papadopoulos is ousted in military coup led by Lieutenant General Phaidon Gizikis. *1975 - Suriname becomes independent. *1980 - No Más Fight: Sugar Ray Leonard recovers the WBC world welterweight boxing title in a fight against Roberto Duran. *1984 - Thirty-six of Britain and Ireland's top pop musicians gathered in a Notting Hill studio as ''Band Aid (band)'' to record the song "''Do They Know It's Christmas''" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. *1984 - A KCR train goes off track between Sheung Shui (KCRC) and Fanling (KCRC). *1986 - Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua. *1992 - The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia starting on January 1, 1993. *1994 - Sony founder Akio Morita announces he will be stepping down as corporate executive officer of the floundering company. *1999 - The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution designating November 25 as the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women. *2002 - President of the United States George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law. *2002 - Reported assassination attempt on Turkmen president Saparmurat Niyazov ==Births== *1562 - Felix Lope de Vega, playwright (d. 1635) *1577 - Piet Hein (Netherlands), Dutch naval commander and folk hero (d. 1629) *1609 - Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (d. 1669) *1817 - John Bigelow, United States statesman, author (d. 1911) *1830 - Lina Morgenstern, writer (d. 1909) *1835 - Andrew Carnegie, industrialist, philanthropist (d. 1919) *1844 - Karl Benz, engineer (d. 1929) *1846 - Carry Nation, temperance advocate (d. 1911) *1874 - Joe Gans, United States boxer (d. 1910) *1881 - Pope John XXIII (d. 1963) *1883 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, F.R.C., Rosicrucian, founder of AMORC * 1883 - Merrill C. Meigs, newspaper publisher, aviation promoter (d. 1968) *1893 - Joseph Krutch, United States naturalist, author (d. 1970) *1895 - Wilhelm Kempff, German conductor (d. 1991) * 1895 - Ludvík Svoboda politician and Czechoslovakia President (d. 1979) *1896 - Virgil Thomson, composer, music critic (d. 1989) *1904 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete *1913 - Lewis Thomas, physician, essayist (d. 1993) *1914 - Léon Zitrone, animator * 1914 - Joe DiMaggio, baseball player (d. 1999) *1915 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean politician *1920 - Ricardo Montalban, actor *1925 - Jeffrey Hunter, actor (d. 1969) * 1925 - Maya Plisetskaya, ballerina *1926 - Poul Anderson, science fiction writer (d. 2001) *1933 - Kathryn Grant, actress *1940 - Reinhard Furrer, physicist, astronaut (d. 1995) * 1940 - Joe Gibbs, Pro Football Hall of Fame coach *1944 - Ben Stein, actor, game show host, political consultant *1947 - John Larroquette, actor *1952 - Imran Khan, cricket player *1959 - Charles Kennedy, British politician *1960 - Amy Grant, singer * 1960 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., son of President of the United States John F. Kennedy (d. 1999) *1965 - Cris Carter, American football player * 1965 - Bernie Kosar, American football quarterback *1971 - Christina Applegate, United States actress * 1971 - Magnus Arvedson, ice hockey player *1978 - Shina Ringo, Japanese musician, singer, and song writer. *1979 - Thea Gilmore, British singer and songwriter *1981 - Barbara and Jenna Bush, daughters of President of the United States George W. Bush *1986 - Amber Hagerman, kidnapping, murder victim (d. 1996) ==Deaths== *311 - Peter of Alexandria, Christian martyr *1034 - King Malcolm II of Scotland (killed) *1185 - Pope Lucius III *1326 - Prince Koreyasu, 7th Kamakura shogun of Japan (b. 1264) *1374 - Philip II of Taranto, Emperor of Costantinople *1748 - Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter *1881 - Theobald Boehm, inventor of the modern flute *1884 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, chemist *1920 - Gaston Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile pioneer *1944 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball commissioner *1947 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet *1950 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873) *1959 - Gérard Philipe, French actor *1968 - Upton Sinclair, American journalist, politician, and writer *1965 - Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (b. 1890) *1970 - Yukio Mishima, writer *1972 - Henri Coanda, aerodynamics pioneer *1973 - Laurence Harvey, actor *1974 - U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General *1974 - Nick Drake, musician *1981 - Jack Albertson, actor *1998 - Flip Wilson, actor, comedian *2002 - Karel Reisz, theatre director ==Holidays and observances== *Celebration for the year 2003 of the Muslim festival of Eid (which has no set date in the Gregorian calendar because the Muslim calendar is based on the lunar, not the solar, cycle) *Feast day of St Catherine Laboure == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/25 BBC: On This Day] ---- November 24 - November 26 - October 25 - December 25 -- historical anniversaries bs:Novembar 25 simple:November 25
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November 25 is the 329th (in leap years the 330th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 36 days remaining. ==Events== *1034 - Malcolm II of Scotland dies. Duncan I of Scotland, the son of his second daughter, instead of Macbeth of Scotland, the son of his eldest daughter, inherits the throne. *1120 - Wreck of the White Ship in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son of Henry I of England. *1177 - Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeats Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard. *1491 - The siege of Granada, last Moors stronghold in Spain, begins. * 1542 - Battle of Solway Moss. An English army invades Scotland and defeats a Scottish army. *1758 - French and Indian War: Kingdom of Great Britain forces capture Fort Duquesne from France control. *1783 - American Revolutionary War: The last Kingdom of Great Britain troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris (1783). * 1795 - Partitions of Poland: Stanislaus II Augustus Poniatowski of Poland, the last List of Polish rulers of independent Poland, was forced to abdication and move to Russia. *1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge - At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, United States forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate States of America troops under General Braxton Bragg. *1874 - The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party made primarily of farmers financially hurt by the Panic of 1873. *1876 - Indian Wars: In retaliation for the dramatic United States defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River (Montana). *1905 - Haakon VII of Norway arrives in Norway. *1913 - Panama becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention copyright treaty. *1936 - In Berlin, Nazi-Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, thus agreeing to consult on what measures to take "to safeguard their common interests" in case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. *1940 - Woody Woodpecker first appears, in the film "Knock Knock". *1944 - World War II: A Germany V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, killing 160 shoppers. *1947 - Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood, California movie studios. *1947 - New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster 1931 and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom. *1952 - Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play ''The Mousetrap'' opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London, still the longest continuously running play in history). *1953 - The England national football team suffer England v Hungary (1953) *1958 - French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community. *1960 - The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic were assassinated . *1963 - John F. Kennedy assassination: John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. *1970 - In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after failing to sway public opinion during an unsuccessful coup attempt. *1973 - Greece President George Papadopoulos is ousted in military coup led by Lieutenant General Phaidon Gizikis. *1975 - Suriname becomes independent. *1980 - No Más Fight: Sugar Ray Leonard recovers the WBC world welterweight boxing title in a fight against Roberto Duran. *1984 - Thirty-six of Britain and Ireland's top pop musicians gathered in a Notting Hill studio as ''Band Aid (band)'' to record the song "''Do They Know It's Christmas''" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. *1984 - A KCR train goes off track between Sheung Shui (KCRC) and Fanling (KCRC). *1986 - Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua. *1992 - The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia starting on January 1, 1993. *1994 - Sony founder Akio Morita announces he will be stepping down as corporate executive officer of the floundering company. *1999 - The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution designating November 25 as the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women. *2002 - President of the United States George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law. *2002 - Reported assassination attempt on Turkmen president Saparmurat Niyazov ==Births== *1562 - Felix Lope de Vega, playwright (d. 1635) *1577 - Piet Hein (Netherlands), Dutch naval commander and folk hero (d. 1629) *1609 - Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (d. 1669) *1817 - John Bigelow, United States statesman, author (d. 1911) *1830 - Lina Morgenstern, writer (d. 1909) *1835 - Andrew Carnegie, industrialist, philanthropist (d. 1919) *1844 - Karl Benz, engineer (d. 1929) *1846 - Carry Nation, temperance advocate (d. 1911) *1874 - Joe Gans, United States boxer (d. 1910) *1881 - Pope John XXIII (d. 1963) *1883 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, F.R.C., Rosicrucian, founder of AMORC * 1883 - Merrill C. Meigs, newspaper publisher, aviation promoter (d. 1968) *1893 - Joseph Krutch, United States naturalist, author (d. 1970) *1895 - Wilhelm Kempff, German conductor (d. 1991) * 1895 - Ludvík Svoboda politician and Czechoslovakia President (d. 1979) *1896 - Virgil Thomson, composer, music critic (d. 1989) *1904 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete *1913 - Lewis Thomas, physician, essayist (d. 1993) *1914 - Léon Zitrone, animator * 1914 - Joe DiMaggio, baseball player (d. 1999) *1915 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean politician *1920 - Ricardo Montalban, actor *1925 - Jeffrey Hunter, actor (d. 1969) * 1925 - Maya Plisetskaya, ballerina *1926 - Poul Anderson, science fiction writer (d. 2001) *1933 - Kathryn Grant, actress *1940 - Reinhard Furrer, physicist, astronaut (d. 1995) * 1940 - Joe Gibbs, Pro Football Hall of Fame coach *1944 - Ben Stein, actor, game show host, political consultant *1947 - John Larroquette, actor *1952 - Imran Khan, cricket player *1959 - Charles Kennedy, British politician *1960 - Amy Grant, singer * 1960 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., son of President of the United States John F. Kennedy (d. 1999) *1965 - Cris Carter, American football player * 1965 - Bernie Kosar, American football quarterback *1971 - Christina Applegate, United States actress * 1971 - Magnus Arvedson, ice hockey player *1978 - Shina Ringo, Japanese musician, singer, and song writer. *1979 - Thea Gilmore, British singer and songwriter *1981 - Barbara and Jenna Bush, daughters of President of the United States George W. Bush *1986 - Amber Hagerman, kidnapping, murder victim (d. 1996) ==Deaths== *311 - Peter of Alexandria, Christian martyr *1034 - King Malcolm II of Scotland (killed) *1185 - Pope Lucius III *1326 - Prince Koreyasu, 7th Kamakura shogun of Japan (b. 1264) *1374 - Philip II of Taranto, Emperor of Costantinople *1748 - Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter *1881 - Theobald Boehm, inventor of the modern flute *1884 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, chemist *1920 - Gaston Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile pioneer *1944 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball commissioner *1947 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet *1950 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873) *1959 - Gérard Philipe, French actor *1968 - Upton Sinclair, American journalist, politician, and writer *1965 - Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (b. 1890) *1970 - Yukio Mishima, writer *1972 - Henri Coanda, aerodynamics pioneer *1973 - Laurence Harvey, actor *1974 - U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General *1974 - Nick Drake, musician *1981 - Jack Albertson, actor *1998 - Flip Wilson, actor, comedian *2002 - Karel Reisz, theatre director ==Holidays and observances== *Celebration for the year 2003 of the Muslim festival of Eid (which has no set date in the Gregorian calendar because the Muslim calendar is based on the lunar, not the solar, cycle) *Feast day of St Catherine Laboure == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/25 BBC: On This Day] ---- November 24 - November 26 - October 25 - December 25 -- historical anniversaries bs:Novembar 25 simple:November 25
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