25th
November, on this day
1034 Malcolm
II, King of Scots dies. Duncan,
the son of his second daughter Bethóc
and Crínán
of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
1120 The White
Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William
Adelin, son of Henry
I of England
1177 Baldwin
IV of Jerusalem and Raynald
of Chatillon defeat Saladin
at the Battle
of Montgisard
1357 Charles
IV issues letter of protection of Jews of Strasbourg Alsace
1491 The siege
of Granada, last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
1642 Dutch navigator
Abel Tasman discovers an island off the southern coast of Australia
and names it Van Dieman's Land. Its name is changed to Tasmania in
1855
1667 A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha,
in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
1703 The Great
Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern
part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains
through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people perish
in the mighty gale.
1715 1st English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
1755 King
Ferdinand IV of Spain granted the Beaterio dela Compania de Jesus
or now known as the Congregation of the Religious
of the Virgin Mary(RVM) a royal protection.
1758 Britain captures
Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh)
1758 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is founded.
1766 Pope
Clement XIII warns On the dangers of anti-Christian writings
1783 The last British troops leave New York City - their last military
position in US - three months after the signing of the Treaty
of Paris
1795 Partitions
of Poland : Stanislaus
August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced
to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.
1817 1st sword swallower in US performs (NYC)
1823 In Britain, the opening of the first pleasure pier -'The
Chain Pier' at Brighton. In 1896, shortly after being closed,
the pier is destroyed in a storm
1826 The Greek
frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship
of the Hellenic Navy
1834 Delmonico's,
one of NY's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee
and half a pie for 12 cents
1837 Battle
of Saint-Charles : British victory against Canadian rebels
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.
1841 35 Amistad
survivors return to Africa
1863 Battle
of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee : Union forces led by General Ulysses
S. Grant break the Siege
of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton
Bragg.
1864 A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate
Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an
unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City
1864 First
Battle of Adobe Walls : Kit
Carson fights Kiowa forces to a draw, but manages to destroy their
settlement.
1867 Alfred
Nobel invents dynamite
1874 The United
States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting
primarily of farmers affected by the Panic
of 1873
1875 Britain buys a controlling stake of 176,000 shares in the Suez
Canal from the Khedive of Egypt
1876 In retaliation for the American 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.
1884 John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated
milk
1897 Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy
1905 The Danish Prins
Carl arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
1913 Woodrow
Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in the White House
1915 Battle
of Ctesiphon between British Empire and British India, against
the Ottoman Empire ends
1918 Vojvodina,
former Austro-Hungarian crownland, proclaims its secession from this
state to join the Kingdom
of Serbia
1926 The deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. November history strikes
on Thanksgiving day. 27 twisters of great strength reported in the
Midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4,
that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. 51 deaths in Arkansas alone,
76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.
1930 690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day (Ito Japan)
1933 1st Soviet liquid rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m)
1936 In Berlin, 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 First flight of the deHavilland
Mosquito and Martin
B-26 Marauder
1940 Patria
steamer sinks killing 200, outside of Haifa
1941 Finland joined the Anti-Comintern
Pact
1943 Statehood of Bosnia
and Herzegovina was re-established at the Anti-Fascist
Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia
1944 A German V-2
rocket hits a Woolworth's
store in Deptford, United Kingdom, killing 160 shoppers
1944 Battle
of Monte Castello : between Brazil and Germany. The Brazilians
were victorious
1947 New Zealand accedes to Statute
of Westminster, becomes a dominion
1948 Fort
Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed
1950 The "Storm
of the Century", a violent snowstorm, paralyzes the northeastern
United States and the Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and
sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia, records 57 inches of
snow. 323 people die due to the storm.
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.
1952 The world's longest-running play, Agatha Christie's "The
Mousetrap", opens at the Ambassador's Theatre in London
1955 American singer Bill
Halley tops the British pop charts with 'Rock Around The Clock'
1957 President
Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
1958 Senegal
becomes an autonomous state in the French Community
1960 The Mirabal
sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
1960 1st atomic reactor for research and development, Richland,
Wa
1963 JFK laid to rest at Arlington
National Cemetery,
1967 Puerto Rico placed on Atlantic
Standard Time
1969 Beatle John Lennon returns his MBE
in protest against British involvement in Biafra and the British Government's
support of US military action in Vietnam
1970 In Japan, author Yukio
Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after an
unsuccessful coup attempt.
1973 Bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George
Papadopoulos
1975 Netherlands grants Surinam
independence
1976 Viking
1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity
1982 The Minneapolis
Thanksgiving Day Fire destroys an entire city block, including
the Northwestern National Bank building and the recently closed Donaldson's
Department Store.
1983 Soyuz
T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off
1983 Syria and Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in
Tripoli
1984 British musician
Bob Geldof asks top rock stars to join together under the name
of BandAid to record 'Do
They Know It's Christmas' to raise money for the Ethiopian Famine
Appeal
1986 Iran-Contra
affair erupts, US Attorney General Edwin Meese reveals secret
arm deal where profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally
diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua
1986 The King
Fahd Causeway was officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
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 attributed
to the storm.
1988 German politician Rita
Süssmuth becomes president of the Bundestag.
1988 Convention on exploitation of Antarctic
mineral resources signed
1988 US and Soviet chess grand masters Donaldson
and Akhmilovskaya wed
1988 Widespread earthquake hits NE US, Canada; no damage reported
1990 Lech
Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election
1992 The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country
into the Czech
Republic and Slovakia
from January 1, 1993.
1994 Sony founder Akio
Morita announces he will be stepping down as CEO of the company.
1995 In a referendum, Ireland votes to end its constitutional ban
on divorce
1996 An Ice storm strikes the central U.S. killing 26 people. Powerful
windstorm affects Florida, winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees
and flipping trailers.
2000 2000
Baku earthquake took place.
2002 Reported assassination attempt on Turkmen president Saparmurat
Niyazov.
2005 Polish Minister of National Defence
Radek Sikorski opens Warsaw Pact archives to historians. Maps
of possible nuclear strikes against Western Europe, as well as the
possible nuclear annihilation of 43 Polish cities and 2 million of
its citizens by Soviet-controlled forces, are released
2007 The first European
Parliament election and a referendum on changing
the voting system (called by the President and declared invalid
because of insufficient turnout) were held in Romania.
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November
25th 2005
Al-Jazeera
seeks 'US bomb' talks
Evacuations
follow China spillage
Football
legend George Best dies
November
25th 2006
Many
die in fresh Iraqi violence
Rebels
'seize' key Chadian city
Radiation
tests after spy death
November
25th 2007
Rudd
sets new Australian agenda
More
activists arrested in Russia
Malaysian
police break up rally
November
25th 2008
US
Fed announces $800bn stimulus
Venezuela
welcomes Russian ships
Arrests
after Afghan acid attack
November 25th
2009
Five
killed at protest in Yemen
Pakistan
charges 7 over Mumbai attacks
Jetman
fails in Africa-Europe flight
November
25th 2010
2
dead after oil tankers catch fire on Iraqi border
S
Korean defence minister resigns
Rio
steps up anti-gang operation
November
25th 2011
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Birthdates which
occurred on November 25th:
1562
Lope Felix de Vega Madrid Spain, dramatist/poet (Angelica, Arcadia)
1835 Andrew Carnegie steel industrialist/library builder
1846 Carry Nation scourge of barkeepers & drinkers
1856 Sergei Taneyev Russia, composer (Oresteia)
1877 Harley Granville-Barker London, dramatist/producer/critic
1881 John XXIII [Angelo Roncalli], Bergamo Italy, 261st pope (1958-63)
1886 Rex Maupin St Joseph MO, orchestra leader (Tin Pan Alley TV)
1893 Robert Ripley illustrator (Believe it or Not)
1895 Anastas I Mikoyan Armenia, member of Supreme Soviet
1895 Wilhelm Kempff Juterbog Germany, pianist (Unterdem Zimbelstern)
1896 Virgil Thomson Kansas City MO, composer/music critic (4 Saints
in 3 Acts)
19-- J.J. Jackson vee-jay (MTV)
19-- Mike Fowler CT, rocker (Steelheart-She's Gone)
1900 Helen Gahagan Douglas Nixon's 1st opponent
1901 Tibor Serly Losonc Hungary, violinist/composer (American Elegy)
1902 Eddie Shore Boston Bruins (#2), hall of famer
1914 Joe DiMaggio Yankee Clipper (56 game hitting streak)
1919 Steve Brodie Eldorado KS, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
1920 Ricardo Montalban actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II, Naked
Gun)
1925 Jeffrey Hunter Orleans La, actor (Christopher Pike-Star Trek
Cage)
1926 Murray Schisgal playwright (Luv)
1929 Jack Hogan Chapel Hill NC, actor (Combat, Adam 12, Sierra)
1933 Kathryn Grant Crosby Houston Texas, actress (Mr Cory, Big Circus)
1933 Lenny Moore NFL back (Baltimore Colts)
1933 Rene Enriquez San Francisco CA, actor (Ray Calletano-Hill Street
Blues)
1935 Gloria Steinem Toledo Ohio, femnist/writer (Ms)
1938 Charles Starkwether serial murderer, with his 14-year-old girlfriend,
Caril Ann Fugate, in 1958 they embarked on a shocking, murderous rampage
that lasted eight days and left 11 dead bodies in its wake--including
Caril Ann's family.
1939 Martin Feldstein economist (1977 John Bates Clark Medal)
1940 Richard Furrer Worgl Germany, astronaut (STS 22)
1942 Tracey Walter Jersey City NJ, actor (Best of the West)
1947 John Larroquette New Orleans LA, actor (Dan Fielding-Night Court)
1947 Jonathan Kaplan Paris France, director (Heart Like a Wheel)
1952 Ernest Harden Jr Detroit MI, actor (Marcus-Jeffersons)
1956 Liana Vicens Puerto Rico, 100m breaststroke (Olympics 1968)
1959 Steve Rothery rocker (Marillion-Real to Reel)
1960 Amy Grant gospel singer (Glory of Love, Baby Baby)
1960 John F Kennedy Jr lawyer, son of JFK
1960 Kasey Smith Queens NY, heavy metal artist (Danger Danger-Screw
It)
1961 Amy Gibson actress (General Hospital)
1966 Stacy Lattislaw disco singer (Million Dollar Baby)
1967 Curtis Baldwin Los Angeles CA, actor (Calvin-227)
1968 Jory Husain Milwaukee WI, actor (Jawaharial-Head of the Class)
1971 Christine Applegate Hollywood, actress (Kelly-Married With Children)
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Deaths which occurred on November 25th:
1885 Thomas A Hendricks 21st VP, dies at 66, 8 months after taking
office
1944 Kenesaw Landis baseball commisioner, dies
1949 Luther "Bill" Robinson famed tap dancer, dies at 71
1958 Charles F Kettering invented auto self-starter, dies at 82
1964 Clarence Kolb actor (Mr Honeywell-My Little Margie), dies at
90
1968 Phil Lord actor (Stud's Place), dies at 89
1974 U Thant UN Secretary-General (1961-72), dies in NY of cancer
at 65
1977 Richard Carlson actor (Col MacKenzie-MacKenzie's Raiders), dies
at 65
1981 Jack Albertson actor (Chico & the Man), dies at 74
1982 Robert Coote actor, dies in NYC of a heart attack at 73
1987 Harold Washington 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87), dies
at 65
1990 Bill Vukovich Indie 500 driver, dies in crash at 27
1991 Bill Graham rock promoter, dies
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