November 25
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November 25 is the 330th day of the year (331st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 35 days remaining until the end of the year.
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[change] Events
- 1667 - A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha, in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
- 1758 - French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control.
- 1758 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is founded.
- 1783 - American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
- 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.
- 1867 - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite.
- 1943 - Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina was re-established at the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia.
- 1947 - New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 1963 - President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1975 - Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2002 - Reported assassination attempt on Turkmen president Saparmurat Niyazov.
[change] Births
- 1609 - Henrietta Maria, daughter of Henry IV of France, Wife of King Charles I of England (d. 1669)
- 1835 - Andrew Carnegie, scottish-born American businessman (d. 1919)
- 1881 - Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
- 1914 - Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1915 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean President (d. 2006)
- 1941 - Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani writer and spiritual leader (d. 2001)
- 1941 - Percy Sledge, American musician
- 1944 - Ben Stein, American actor
- 1957 - Monte Melkonian, Armenian military leader (d. 1993)
- 1960 - Amy Grant, American singer
- 1978 - Ringo Shiina, Japanese singer
- 1981 - Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer
- 1981 - Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush, daughters of George W. Bush and Laura Bush
[change] Deaths
- 1968 - Upton Sinclair, American journalist, politician, and writer (b. 1878)
- 2001 - Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani writer and spiritual leader (b. 1941)
[change] Holidays and observances
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: National Day (1943)
- Suriname - Independence Day (from the Netherlands, 1975)
