On this day: 25 November

Years ago today

Events · 27

• 1177
  Battle of Montgisard — 1177 battle of the Crusades
• 1491(Julian date)
  Treaty of Granada — treaty that ended the Granada War
• 1510(Julian date)
  Portuguese conquest of Goa — 1510 capture of the Indian city of Goa by the Portuguese Empire
• 1596
  Cudgel War — peasant uprising in the Finland 1596-97
• 1667
  1667 Shamakhi earthquake — 1667 seismic event centered near present-day Shamakhi, Azerbaijan
• 1783
  Evacuation Day — commemorates the evacuation of British forces from New York City in 1783 and Washington's triumphal return
• 1839
  1839 Coringa cyclone — devastating tropical cyclone that affected the town of Coringa
• 1863
  Chattanooga campaign — 1863 military campaign of the American Civil War
• 1863
  Battle of Missionary Ridge — 1863 battle of the American Civil War
• 1876
  Dull Knife Fight — part of the Great Sioux War of 1876
• 1885
  Banff National Park — national park in Alberta, Canada
• 1917
  Battle of Ngomano — 1917 battle
• 1935
  East Hebei Autonomous Government — former country
• 1936
  Anti-Comintern Pact — pact between Nazi Germany and Japan prior to World War II
• 1943
  ZAVNOBiH — provisional government in Yugoslavia
• 1968
  Takeover of Vanha — protest in Helsinki, Finland on 25–26 November 1968
• 1970
  Mishima incident — attempted coup d'état in Japan on 25 November 1970 by writer Yukio Mishima
• 1975
  Suriname — country in South America
• 1975
  President of Suriname — head of state and head of government of Suriname
• 1975
  Coup of 25 November 1975 — failed Portuguese far-left military coup
• 1980
  1980 Upper Volta coup d'état — Military coup in Burkina Faso led by Colonel Saye Zerbo
• 1984
  Do They Know It's Christmas? — Christmas song written and composed by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, originally recorded by Band Aid and released in 1984
• 1985
  1985 Aeroflot Antonov An-12 shoot-down — 1985 shootdown
• 1990
  1990 Polish presidential election — First completely free presidential elections in Poland
• 2000
  2000 Baku earthquake — earthquake in Baku, Azerbaijan
• 2008
  Cyclone Nisha — North Indian cyclone in 2008
• 2009
  2009 Jeddah floods — 2009 natural disaster in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Births · 60

• 1454(Julian date)
  Catherine Cornaro — Queen of Cyprus
• 1562(Julian date)
  Lope de Vega — Spanish playwright and poet (1562-1635)
• 1577(Julian date)
  Piet Pieterszoon Hein — Dutch admiral (1578-1629)
• 1609
  Henrietta Maria of France — queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland as the wife of King Charles I
• 1638
  Catherine of Braganza — Queen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland (1638–1705)
• 1787
  Franz Xaver Gruber — Austrian composer (1787–1863)
• 1814
  Robert Mayer — German physicist (1814-1878)
• 1835
  Andrew Carnegie — Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)
• 1841
  Ernst Schröder — German mathematician (1841-1902)
• 1844
  Carl Benz — German automotive and engine designer and manufacturer (1844–1929)
• 1845
  José Maria de Eça de Queirós — Portuguese writer and diplomat (1845–1900)
• 1868
  Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine — German aristocrat (1868-1937)
• 1870
  Maurice Denis — French painter (1870–1943)
• 1876
  Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha — Grand Duchess of Russia (1876–1936)
• 1881
  John XXIII — priest, bishop, cardinal, pope
• 1889
  Reşat Nuri Güntekin — Turkish writer (1889–1956)
• 1895
  Ludvík Svoboda — Czechoslovak general and politician (1895-1979)
• 1895
  Wilhelm Kempff — German pianist and composer (1895–1991)
• 1896
  Virgil Thomson — American composer and critic (1896–1989)
• 1901
  Rudolf Höss — German war criminal, commandant of Auschwitz (1901–1947)
• 1904
  Ba Jin — Chinese novelist and anarchist activist (1904-2005)
• 1914
  Joe DiMaggio — American baseball player (1914–1999)
• 1915
  Augusto Pinochet — Chilean military officer and politician (1915–2006)
• 1915
  Jeong Ju-yung — South Korean businessman (1915–2001)
• 1917
  Alparslan Türkeş — Founder of Turkish Nationalist Action Party and Grey Wolves (1917–1997)

Deaths · 60

• 311(Julian date)
  Peter of Alexandria — Coptic pope of Alexandria
• 734
  Bilge Qaghan — Khan of Gokturk
• 1034(Julian date)
  Malcolm II of Scotland — king of Alban (954-1034)
• 1120
  William Adelin — Duke of Normandy
• 1185(Julian date)
  Lucius III — pope of the Catholic Church from 1181 to 1185 (1110–1185)
• 1326(Julian date)
  Koreyasu-shinnō — Japanese prince; shogun of Kamakura
• 1373(Julian date)
  Philip II, Prince of Taranto — Prince of Achaea and Taranto, and titular Emperor of Constantinople
• 1456
  Jacques Cœur — French merchant, one of the founders of the trade between France and the Levant
• 1560(Julian date)
  Andrea Doria — Admiral of the Republic of Genoa (1466–1560)
• 1626
  Edward Alleyn — English actor (1566–1626)
• 1694
  Ismaël Bullialdus — French astronomer
• 1748
  Isaac Watts — English hymnwriter, theologian and logician (1674-1748)
• 1755
  Johann Georg Pisendel — German composer and violinist
• 1865
  Heinrich Barth — German explorer (1821-1865)
• 1884
  Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe — German chemist (1818–1884)
• 1885
  Alfonso XII of Spain — king of Spain from 1874 to 1885
• 1885
  Thomas A. Hendricks — American politician (1819–1885)
• 1934
  Nicholas Edward Brown — British botanist (1849–1934)
• 1944
  Kenesaw Mountain Landis — American judge and baseball commissioner (1866-1944)
• 1949
  Bill Robinson — American dancer and actor (1877/1878–1949)
• 1950
  Johannes V. Jensen — Danish author (1873-1950)
• 1950
  Mao Anying — Chinese soldier, son of Chairman Mao Zedong of China (1922-1950)
• 1950
  Gustaf John Ramstedt — Finnish linguist and diplomat (1873–1950)
• 1955
  Louis Lachenal — French mountain climber (1921–1955)
• 1956
  Oleksandr Dovzhenko — Soviet Ukrainian screenwriter, film producer and director (1894–1956)