What are the important events that happened on November 25? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 25: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 25 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 12, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,732,492,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatriacontagon’ day.
Sagittarius is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,357 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 25 Historical Events
- 1034 –Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies. Donnchad, the son of his daughter Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
- 1826 –The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
- 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.
- 1918 –Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on November 25?
- 1841 –Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (d. 1902)
- 1843 –Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist; father of T. S. Eliot (d. 1919)
- 1890 –Isaac Rosenberg, English war poet and artist (d. 1918)
- 1936 –Trisha Brown, American choreographer and dancer
- 1940 –Karl Offmann, Mauritian politician
- 1940 –Reinhard Furrer, American physicist and astronaut (d. 1995)
- 1955 –Bruno Tonioli, Italian-born British dancer
- 1960 –Kasey Smith, American keyboardist (Danger Danger)
- 1986 –Katie Cassidy, American singer and actress
- 1989 –Tom Dice, Belgian singer and songwriter
Who died on November 25?
- 1517 –Marcus Musurus, Greek scholar and pholosopher (b. 1470)
- 1950 –Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
- 1957 –Prince George of Greece (b. 1869)
- 1965 –Dame Myra Hess, British pianist (b. 1890)
- 1974 –Nick Drake, British singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
- 1998 –Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (b. 1906)
- 1999 –Valentín Campa, Mexican worker leader (b. 1904)
- 2001 –Harry Devlin, American artist and children’s book illustrator (b. 1918)
- 2006 –Valentín Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)
- 2010 –Peter Christopherson English musician and video director/designer (b. 1955)
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