Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 25

This is a list of selected November 25 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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  Stanisław August Poniatowski by Marcello Bacciarelli, 1793
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  Albert Einstein
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  Johan Ferrier in 1975
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  Johan Ferrier
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  George Washington's entry into New York, 1783
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  Malcolm II of Scotland
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  A flooded tunnel in King Abdullah Street, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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  Schutztruppe at the Battle of Ngomano
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  Yukio Mishima
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  The Capitulation of Granada by Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, 1882
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  de Havilland Mosquitos
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  Johan Ferrier in 1975

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Teachers' Day in Indonesia;	refimprove
National Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1943);	refimprove section
; Independence Day in Suriname (1975)	refimprove section, single-source section
571 BC – According to the Fasti Triumphales, Servius Tullius, the legendary sixth king of Rome, celebrated the first of three triumphs for his victory over the Etruscans.	Hook uncited
1120 – William Adelin, the only legitimate son of King Henry I of England, drowned in the White Ship disaster, leading to 18 years of civil war, a period later known as the Anarchy.	unreferenced section
1177 – Troops led by King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem destroyed forces led by Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard, saving the Crusader states from invasion.	needs more footnotes
1915 – Albert Einstein presented his field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.	refimprove section
1952 – Agatha Christie's mystery play The Mousetrap, the play with the longest initial run in history, opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London.	plot summary too long
1992 – Legislators in Czechoslovakia voted to dissolve their country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, effective January 1, 1993.	refimprove
2000 – An Ms 7 earthquake struck Baku, Azerbaijan, killing 26 people and injuring over 400 others.	refimprove
2009 – Freak rains caused devastating flooding in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 122 people and stranding thousands of Hajj pilgrims.	outdated
Hazel Ying Lee |d|1944|	too much uncited

Eligible

• 1510 – Afonso de Albuquerque, the governor of Portuguese India, led an armada to conquer Goa.
• 1678 – Trunajaya rebellion: After a series of difficult marches, allied Mataram and Dutch troops successfully assaulted the rebel stronghold of Kediri in eastern Java.
• 1759 – The second of two strong earthquakes struck the Levant and destroyed all the villages in the Beqaa Valley.
• 1795 – Stanisław II Augustus, the last king of Poland, was forced to abdicate after the Third Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate forces were defeated at the Battle of Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, opening the door to the Union's invasion of the Deep South.
• 1901 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4 premiered in Munich.
• 1917 – World War I: German troops invaded Portuguese East Africa in an attempt to escape superior British forces to the north and resupply from captured Portuguese materiel.
• 1936 – Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing that, if the Soviet Union attacked one of them, they would consult each other on what measures to take to "safeguard their common interests".
• 1940 – The de Havilland Mosquito, one of the most successful military aircraft in the Second World War, made its first flight.
• 1947 – McCarthyism: Executives from movie studios agreed to blacklist ten screenwriters and directors who were jailed for refusing to give testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
• 1952 – Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ended as American and South Korean units abandoned their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle".
• 1960 – Three of the four Mirabal sisters, who opposed the dictatorship of military strongman Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, were beaten and strangled to death.
• 1970 – After failing to instigate a military coup to restore the powers of the Emperor of Japan, author Yukio Mishima publicly committed ritual suicide.
• 1975 – Upon Suriname's independence from the Netherlands, Johan Ferrier (pictured) became its first president.
• 1981 – A group of Conservative Party members of parliament wrote a letter outlining their opposition to the economic policy of Margaret Thatcher leading to speculation over a split from the party by the Gang of 25.
• 1984 – Band Aid, a supergroup consisting of more than 30 leading British and Irish pop musicians, recorded the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
• Born/died: | Andrea Doria |d|1560| Hu Zongxian |d|1565| Henrietta Maria of France |b|1609| Johann Georg Pisendel |d|1755| Maurice Denis |b|1870| Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha |b|1876| Hermann Kolbe |d|1884| Thomas A. Hendricks |d|1885| Alexis Wright |b|1950| Charles Kennedy |b|1959| John F. Kennedy Jr. |b|1960| Nick Drake |d|1974|

Notes

• Battle of Lookout Mountain appears on November 24, so Battle of Missionary Ridge should not appear in the same year

November 25: Evacuation Day in New York City (1783)

Moraine Lake at Banff National Park

• 1034 – After Malcolm II of Scotland died at Glamis, Duncan, the son of his second daughter, rather than Macbeth, the son of his eldest daughter, inherited the throne to become the King of Scots.
• 1491 – Reconquista: The Granada War was effectively brought to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Granada between Castile-Aragon and the Emirate of Granada.
• 1885 – Banff National Park (pictured), the oldest national park in Canada, was established as the Banff Hot Springs Reserve.
• 1951 – The left-wing Japanese novelist Wataru Kaji disappeared, leading to a government inquiry in which CIA involvement was investigated; Kaji stated he was kidnapped and held against his will by intelligence officers, which the United States denied.
• 2013 – English-Irish boy band One Direction released their third studio album Midnight Memories which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and became the best-selling album of 2013.

• Osanna of Cattaro (b. 1493)
• Enoch Fenwick (d. 1827)
• Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy (b. 1846)
• George Best (d. 2005)

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