About November 25
November 25, 2024 is the 330th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 36 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 65 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 25
- 1034 –Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies. Donnchad, the son of his daughter Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
- 1177 –Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
- 1491 –The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
- 1759 –An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000.
- 1833 –A massive undersea earthquake, estimated magnitude between 8.7-9.2 rocks Sumatra, producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast.
- 1839 –A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). 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: 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 consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
- 1876 –Indian Wars: 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.
- 1905 –Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
- 1947 –Red Scare: The “Hollywood Ten” are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
- 1960 –The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
- 1963 –President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1970 –In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
- 1973 –George Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners’ coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
- 1975 –Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
- 1992 –The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993.
- 1996 –An ice storm strikes the central U.S. killing 26 people. A powerful windstorm affects Florida and winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers.
- 1999 –The United Nations establishes the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate the murder of three Mirabal Sisters for resistance against the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship in Dominican Republic.
- 2008 –Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in 9 decades.
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