On this day in History - Nov. 25
- 0311 - Peter of Alexandria dies. Christian martyr.
- 1034 - Malcolm II of Scotland dies killed. Duncan, the son of his second daughter, inherits the throne ahead of Macbeth, the son of his eldest daughter.
- 1120 - The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin (b. 1104), son of Henry I of England.
- 1185 - Pope Lucius III dies
- 1326 - Prince Koreyasu dies (b. 1264). Japanese shogun
- 1374 - Philip II of Taranto dies (b. 1329). Emperor of Costantinople
- 1456 - Jacques Cœur dies. French merchant.
- 1501 - Yi Hwang was born (d. 1570). Confucian scholar.
- 1542 - Battle of Solway Moss. The English army defeats the Scottish.
- 1560 - Andrea Doria dies (b. 1466). Italian naval leader.
- 1562 - Félix Lope de Vega was born in Madrid (d. 1635). Spanish playwright and poet.
- 1577 - Piet Hein was born (d. 1629). Dutch naval commander and folk hero
- 1609 - Henrietta Maria was born (d. 1669). Queen of Charles I of England
- 1626 - Edward Alleyn dies (b. 1566). English actor.
- 1638 - Catherine of Braganza was born (d. 1705). Queen of Charles II of England, daughter of John IV of Portugal and D. Luisa Francisco de Gusmão.
- 1667 - A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha, Caucasia, killing 80,000 people.
- 1686 - Nicolas Steno dies (b. 1638). Danish geologist.
- 1694 - Ismael Bullialdus dies (b. 1605). French astronomer.
- 1700 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt dies (b. 1643). First native Mayor of New York.
- 1703 - The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the British Isles, reaches its peak intensity and maintains it through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people perish in the mighty gale.
- 1703 - Jean-François Séguier was born (d. 1784). French astronomer and botanist
- 1712 - Charles-Michel de l'Épée was born (d. 1789). French philanthropist and developer of 'Signed French'
- 1714 - Yoriyuki Arima was born (d. 1783). Japanese mathematician.
- 1748 - Isaac Watts dies (b. 1674). British hymnwriter.
- 1755 - Johann Georg Pisendel dies (b. 1687). German musician.
- 1778 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck was born (d. 1856). British Christian writer
- 1783 - American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
- 1785 - Richard Glover dies (b. 1712). British poet.
- 1795 - Partitions of Poland: Stanislaus August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and exiled to Russia.
- 1814 - Julius Robert von Mayer was born (d. 1878). German physician and physicist.
- 1817 - John Bigelow was born (d. 1911). American statesman and author.
- 1835 - Andrew Carnegie was born (d. 1919). British-born industrialist and philanthropist
- 1839 - Disastrous cyclone slams India with terrible winds and a 40 foot storm surge, literally wiping out the port city of Coringa, never to be entirely rebuilt again. Powerful winds level everything in sight, the storm wave sweeps inland tens of miles, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster, making this one of history's greatest catastrophes.
- 1841 - Ernst Schröder was born (d. 1902). German mathematician.
- 1843 - Henry Ware Eliot was born (d. 1919). American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot
- 1844 - Karl Benz was born (d. 1929). German mechanical engineer who designed and built in 1885 the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
- 1845 - José Maria Eça de Queiroz was born in Póvoa de Varzim (d. 1900). Portuguese writer. His works include "O Crime do Padre Amaro" (1875), "O Primo Basílio" (1878), "Os Maias" (1888), A Ilustre Casa de Ramires (1894), this one published after his death.
- 1846 - Carry Nation was born in Garrard County, Kentucky (d. 1911). American temperance advocate.
- 1858 - Alfred Capus was born (d. 1922). French author.
- 1862 - Ethelbert Nevin was born (d. 1901). American pianist and composer.
- 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.
- 1865 - Heinrich Barth dies (b. 1821). German explorer.
- 1867 - Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
- 1869 - Ben Lindsey was born (d. 1934). American judge and social reformer.
- 1870 - Winthrop Ames was born (d. 1937). American theatrical director.
- 1874 - Joe Gans was born (d. 1910). American boxer.
- 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.
- 1881 - Angelo Roncalli was born in Sotto il Monte, Italy (d. 1963). In 1958 he become Pope John XXIII.
- 1881 - Theobald Boehm dies (b. 1794). German inventor of the modern flute.
- 1883 - Harvey Spencer Lewis was born (d. 1939). American mystic.
- 1883 - Merrill C. Meigs was born (d. 1968). American newspaper publisher and aviation promoter
- 1884 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe dies (b. 1818). German chemist.
- 1885 - King Alfonso XII of Spain dies (b. 1857)
- 1885 - Thomas Hendricks dies (b. 1819). Vice President of the United States.
- 1886 - Patricio Escobar Cáceres sworn as President of Paraguay.
- 1887 - Nikolai Vavilov was born (d. 1943). Russian physicist.
- 1890 - Juan Gualberto González becomes President of Paraguay.
- 1890 - Isaac Rosenberg was born (d. 1918). English war poet and artist.
- 1893 - António Guilhermino Dias, Portuguese actor, dies on stage at Teatro do Princípe Real - Porto
- 1894 - Juan Bautista Luis Egusquiza Isasi becomes President of Paraguay
- 1895 - Ludvík Svoboda was born. President of Czechoslovakia (1968-1975
- 1895 - Helen Hooven Santmyer was born (d. 1986). American writer.
- 1895 - Wilhelm Kempff was born (d. 1991). German conductor.
- 1895 - Ludvík Svoboda was born (d. 1979). President of Czechoslovakia.
- 1896 - Virgil Thomson was born (d. 1989). American composer and music critic
- 1897 - Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy.
- 1898 - Emilio Aceval Marín becomes President of Paraguay
- 1900 - Rudolf Hoess was born (d. 1947). Commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1902 - Juan Antonio Escurra becomes President of Paraguay
- 1902 - Eddie Shore was born (d. 1985). National Hockey League defenseman.
- 1904 - Lillian Copeland was born (d. 1964). American athlete.
- 1904 - Toni Ortelli was born (d. 2000). Italian composer and alpinist.
- 1904 - Lillian Copeland was born (d. 1964). American athlete.
- 1904 - Pa Kin was born. Chinese writer.
- 1904 - Ba Jin was born (d. 2005). Chinese novelist
- 1906 - Benigno Asunción Ferreira becomes President of Paraguay.
- 1910 - Manuel Gondra Pereira becomes President of Paraguay.
- 1913 - Lewis Thomas was born (d. 1993). American physician and essayist.
- 1914 - Joe DiMaggio was born (d. 1999). American baseball player.
- 1915 - Augusto Pinochet was born. Chilean politician
- 1917 - Russia holds its last free election for more than 50 years.
- 1920 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail was born (d. 2000). King of Malaysia.
- 1920 - Ricardo Montalban was born. Mexican actor
- 1920 - Noel Neill was born. American actress
- 1920 - Gaston Chevrolet dies (b. 1892). Swiss-born race car driver and automobile pioneer.
- 1922 - Gloria Lasso was born (d. 2005). French-Spanish singer.
- 1924 - Takaaki Yoshimoto was born. Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher.
- 1925 - Jeffrey Hunter was born (d. 1969). American actor.
- 1926 - The worst, 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 F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. 51 deaths in Arkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.
- 1926 - Jeffrey Hunter was born (d. 1969). American actor.
- 1926 - Poul Anderson was born (d. 2001). American writer.
- 1933 - Kathryn Grant was born. American actress
- 1935 - Iyasu V dies. Emperor of Ethiopia (1913-1916)
- 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 - Woody Woodpecker first appears, in the film "Knock Knock".
- 1940 - Reinhard Furrer was born (d. 1995). American physicist and astronaut
- 1940 - Joe Gibbs was born. American football coach.
- 1941 - Percy Sledge was born. American musician
- 1942 - Bob Lind was born. American folk singer and songwriter
- 1942 - Alfredo Carneiro da Cunha dies in Lisbon (b. in Fundão, 21 Dec 1863). Portuguese poet and journalist.
- 1943 - Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina was re-established at the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia.
- 1944 - World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, killing 160 shoppers.
- 1944 - Ben Stein was born. American actor, game show host, and political consultant
- 1944 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis dies (b. 1866). Baseball commissioner.
- 1946 - Slim Borgudd was born in Borgholm, Kalmar. Swedish F1 car racer (1981 - 1982 : 10 GP).
- 1947 - John Larroquette was born. American actor
- 1947 - New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
- 1947 - Léon-Paul Fargue dies (b. 1876). French poet.
- 1948 - Jacques P. Dupuis was born. French Canadian politician
- 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.
- 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.
- 1950 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen dies (b. 1873). Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1951 - Bucky Dent was born. American baseball player
- 1951 - Bill Morrissey was born. American musician
- 1952 - Imran Khan was born. Pakistani cricketer
- 1952 - Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and eventually becomes the longest continuously-running play in history.
- 1953 - The England football team suffer their first home defeat against continental opposition, losing to Hungary.
- 1953 - Jeffrey Skilling was born. Former CEO of Enron
- 1953 - Graham Eadie was born. Australian rugby league player
- 1958 - Senegal becomes an autonomous state in the French Community.
- 1958 - Irene Lisboa dies. Portuguese writer.
- 1959 - Charles Kennedy was born. British politician.
- 1959 - Steve Rothery was born. British guitarist (Marillion)
- 1959 - Gérard Philipe dies (b. 1922). French actor.
- 1960 - Amy Grant was born. American singer
- 1960 - John F. Kennedy, Jr. was born (d. 1999). American publisher.
- 1960 - The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
- 1962 - Gilbert Delorme was born. National Hockey League defenseman
- 1963- President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery
- 1963 - Bernie Kosar was born. American football player
- 1963 - Sorin Cerin was born. Romanian philosopher
- 1965 - Cris Carter was born. American football player
- 1965 - Dame Myra Hess dies (b. 1890). British pianist.
- 1965 - Dougray Scott was born. Scottish television and film actor
- 1965 - Ana Paula Padrão was born. Brazilian journalist.
- 1966 - Tim Armstrong was born. American musician (Rancid and The Transplants)
- 1967 - Ossip Zadkine dies in Paris (b. 1890). Russian painter.
- 1968 - Jill Hennessy was born. Canadian actress
- 1968 - Jacqueline Hennessy was born. Canadian actress and talk show host
- 1968 - Erick Sermon was born. American rap music artist
- 1968 - Galin Nikov was born. Bulgarian pole vaulter
- 1968 - Upton Sinclair dies (b. 1878). American journalist, politician, and writer.
- 1970 - Yukio Mishima dies (b. 1925). Japanese writer.
- 1970 - In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
- 1971 - Christina Applegate was born. American actress
- 1971 - Magnus Arvedson was born. Swedish hockey player
- 1971 - Paulo Torres was born. Portuguese football player, World Champion (under 21) and football coach.
- 1972 - Henri Coanda dies (b. 1886). Romanian aerodynamics pioneer.
- 1973 - Laurence Harvey dies (b. 1928). Lithuanian-born actor.
- 1973 - Greek President George Papadopoulos is ousted in a military coup led by Lieutenant General Phaidon Gizikis.
- 1974 - Nick Drake dies (b. 1948). British singer and songwriter.
- 1974 - U Thant dies (b. 1909). Burmese UN Secretary-General
- 1975 - Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
- 1975 - Netherlands grants Surinam independence (National Day)
- 1975 - Politic- militar confrontation that would go be known by the name of the date "25 de Novembro" It was an important day for the normalization of portuguese democratic life after the revolutionary process following 25 th April (Revolução dos Cravos) that ended the fascist politic regimen.
- 1976 - Donovan McNabb was born. American football player
- 1978 - Shina Ringo was born. Japanese musician, singer, and songwriter
- 1978 - American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275
- 1978 - Taís Araujo was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actress.
- 1979 - Thea Gilmore was born. British singer and songwriter
- 1980 - No Más Fight: Sugar Ray Leonard regains the WBC world welterweight boxing title in a bout against Roberto Duran.
- 1980 - Josh Lomberger was born. American professional wrestling backstage interviewer.
- 1981 - Xabi Alonso was born. Spanish footballer.
- 1981 - Jared Jeffries was born. American basketball player
- 1981 - Jack Albertson dies (b. 1907). American actor.
- 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.
- 1985 - Ray Jablonski dies (b. 1923). American baseball player.
- 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.
- 1986 - Amber Hagerman was born (d. 1996). American kidnapping and murder victim, basis of the Amber Alert system.
- 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.
- 1987 - Harold Washington dies (b. 1922). Mayor of Chicago.
- 1989 - Alva R. Fitch dies (b. 1907). American World War II and Korean soldier.
- 1990 - Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election
- 1992 - The Czech parliament voted to split the country into separate Czech and Slovak republics beginning January 1, 1993.
- 1992 - The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993.
- 1992 - Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas becomes President of Lithuania. Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas is the Prime Minister.
- 1993 - Portugal: Manuel Lopes is considered guilty about the case of the assassination of João Champalimaud and is sentenced to 18 years of prison.
- 1993 - Júlio Pomar, Portuguese painter receives the Prize " Montaigne 1993" , from the Foundation FVS ( Hamburg).
- 1997 - Barbara dies (b. 1930). French singer.
- 1998 - Flip Wilson dies (b. 1933). American actor and comedian.
- 1998 - Nelson Goodman dies (b. 1906). American philosopher.
- 1999 - International day to eliminate violence against women. The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution designating November 25 as the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women. The resolution, which was introduced by the Dominican Republic, marked the anniversary of the death of three sisters, Maria, Teresa, and Minerva Mirabel, who were brutally murdered there in 1961
- 1999 - Six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida.
- 2000 - 2000 Baku earthquake took place.
- 2001 - CIA officer Johnny ''Mike'' Spann was killed during a prison uprising in Mazar-e-Sharif, becoming America's first combat casualty of the conflict in Afghanistan.
- 2002 - Reported assassination attempt on Turkmen president Saparmurat Niyazov
- 2002 - Karel Reisz dies (b. 1926). Czech theatre director.
- R.C. Saints - Saint Catherine of Alexandria;
- 2003 - Yemen arrested Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal, a top al-Qaida member suspected of masterminding the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole and the 2002 bombing of a French oil tanker off Yemen's coast.
- 2004 - Begins today the trial of the case "Casa Pia" (Portugal)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: National Day (1943)
- Surinam - Independence Day (from the Netherlands, 1975)
- In 2003, celebration of the Muslim festival of Eid (which has no set date in the Gregorian calendar because the Muslim calendar is based on the lunar, not the solar, cycle)
- 2004 - Korean Research team announce that they have used cord blood stem cells to regrow a parapeligic's spinal cord. Patient walks for the first time in 19 years.
- 2005 - George Best dies (b. 1946). Northern Irish football player.
- 2005 - Richard Burns dies (b. 1971). English rally driver.
- R.C. Saints - Saint Catherine of Alexandria;
- Suriname - Independence Day (from the Netherlands, 1975)
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