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November 25 is the 329th day (330th on leap years) of the
year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 36 days
remaining.
Events
- 1758 - French and
Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control.
- 1783 - American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three
months after the signing of the Treaty of
Paris.
- 1863 - American Civil
War: Battle of Missionary Ridge - At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate 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.
- 1886 - Indian Wars: In retaliation
for the dramatic American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops under General Ranald Mackenzie sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping
Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River (the soldiers destroyed all of the villager's
winter food and clothing and then slashed their ponies' throats).
- 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 (Adolf Hitler broke
the terms of the pact when he signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact in
August, 1939).
- 1940 - Woody Woodpecker,
an animated cartoon character in the cartoons produced by the
Walter Lantz animation studio, appeared in the film "Knock Knock" distributed by Universal Studios.
- 1944 - World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford,
killing 160 shoppers.
- 1947 - Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood film studios.
- 1947 - New Zealand ratifies the
Statute of Westminster 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 (as of 2003 it is
the longest continuously running play in history).
- 1958 - French Sudan gains
autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
- 1963 - John F. Kennedy assassination: The late US President John F. Kennedy is
buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1970 - In Japan, world-famous author Yukio Mishima commits ritualistic suicide after failing to sway public opinion toward his extreme political beliefs.
- 1973 - Greek 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 takes the second fight of his legendary boxing trilogy with Roberto Duran, when
Duran quits in round 8 in New Orleans. Leonard officially recovers the
WBC world welterweight title with a technical knockout.
- 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 CEO of the floundering company.
- 1999 - The United Nations
General Assembly passes a resolution designating November 25 as the yearly-celebrated International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women (the resolution
was introduced by the Dominican Republic on the anniversary of
the 1961 brutal murder of three Dominican women).
- 2002 - US President George W. Bush signs
the Homeland
Security Act into law, establishing the Department of Homeland Security in the largest US government reorganization since the
creation of the Department of
Defense in 1947 (the Senate passed the bill 90-9 on November 19).
Births
- 1562 - Félix Lope de Vega, playwright (d. 1635)
- 1609 - Henrietta Maria,
Queen Consort of England, Scotland and
Ireland through her marriage to Charles I (d. 1669)
- 1817 - John Bigelow, American 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, American boxer (d. 1910)
- 1881 - Pope John XXIII (d.
1963)
- 1883 - Harvey Spencer
Lewis, F.R.C., Rosicrucian, founder of AMORC
- 1893 - Joseph Krutch, American naturalist, author (d.
1970)
- 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
- 1926 - Poul Anderson, science fiction writer (d. 2001)
- 1933 - Kathryn Grant, actress
- 1940 - Reinhard Furrer,
physicist, astronaut (d. 1995)
- 1940 - Joe Gibbs, 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., journalist (d. 1999)
- 1971 - Christina
Applegate, American actress
- 1971 - Magnus Arvedson, hockey player
- 1978 - Shina Ringo, Japanese musician, singer, and song writer.
- 1981 - Barbara
and Jenna Bush, daughters of President George W. Bush
- 1986 - Amber Hagerman,
kidnapping, murder victim (d. 1996)
Deaths
- 1034 - king Malcolm II of Scotland (killed)
- 1185 - Pope Lucius III
- 1748 - Isaac Watts, English
hymnwriter
- 1884 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, chemist
- 1920 - Gaston Chevrolet, automobile pioneer
- 1944 - Kenesaw
Mountain Landis, baseball commissioner
- 1947 - Léon-Paul
Fargue, poet
- 1959 - Gérard Philipe,
actor
- 1968 - Upton Sinclair,
journalist, politician, writer
- 1970 - Yukio Mishima,
writer
- 1972 - Henri Coanda, aerodynamics
pioneer
- 1973 - Laurence Harvey,
actor
- 1974 - U Thant, former UN Secretary-General
- 1974 - Nick Drake, musician
- 1981 - Jack Albertson,
actor
- 1998 - Flip Wilson, actor,
comedian
- 2002 - Karel Reisz, theatre
director
Holidays and observances
Today is the celebration of the Muslim Eid for the year 2003 (it has no set date in the Gregorian calendar because the Muslim
calendar is based on the lunar, instead of the solar, cycle).
November 24 - November
26 - October 25 - December
25 -- listing of all days
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