About November 25
November 25, 2025 is the 329th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 36 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 84 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 25
- 1120 –The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son of Henry I of England.
- 1343 –A tsunami, caused by the earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples (Italy) and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.
- 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.
- 1783 –American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City 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.
- 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.
- 1905 –Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
- 1918 –Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.
- 1936 –In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures “to safeguard their common interests” in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories.
- 1940 –World War II: First flight of the deHavilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
- 1943 –World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-Fascist Council for the People’s Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1947 –New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
- 1947 –Red Scare: The “Hollywood Ten” are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
- 1950 –The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950, otherwise known at the time as the “Storm of the Century”, strikes New England with hurricane force winds resulting in massive forest blow-downs and storm surge damage along the Northeast coast including New York City. This storm also brings blizzard conditions to the Appalachian Mountains and Ohio Valley, becoming one of the worst storms of all time. 353 people die in the event.
- 1952 –Agatha Christie’s murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London later becoming the longest continuously-running play in history.
- 1963 –President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1977 –Former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad.
- 2000 –The 2000 Baku Earthquake takes place, Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaving 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan and becoming the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
- 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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