November 25
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November 25 is the 329th day (330th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 36 days remaining.
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Events
- 1863 - Battle of Missionary Ridge
- 1758 - British forces capture Fort Duquesne
- 1874 - United States Greenback Party formed
- 1947 - "Hollywood Ten" fired by Hollywood film studios
- 1947 - New Zealand becomes a dominion
- 1958 - Senegal gains autonomy
- 1963 - John F. Kennedy buried at Arlington National Cemetery
- 1975 - Suriname becomes independent.
- 1980 - Sugar Ray Leonard takes the second fight of his legendary boxing trilogy with Roberto Duran, when Duran quits in round 8 in New Orleans. Leonard officially recovers the WBC world welterweight title with a technical knockout.
- 2002 - US President George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law, establishing the Department of Homeland Security in the largest US government reorganization since the creation of the Department of Defense in 1947 (the Senate passed the bill 90-9 on November 19).
Births
- 1562 - F�lix Lope de Vega, playwright (d. 1635)
- 1609 - Henrietta Maria, Queen Consort of England, Scotland and Ireland through her marriage to Charles I (d. 1669)
- 1817 - John Bigelow, American statesman, author (d. 1911)
- 1830 - Lina Morgenstern, writer (d. 1909)
- 1835 - Andrew Carnegie, industrialist, philanthropist (d. 1919)
- 1844 - Karl Benz, engineer (d. 1929)
- 1846 - Carry Nation, temperance advocate (d. 1911)
- 1874 - Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910)
- 1881 - Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
- 1893 - Joseph Krutch, American naturalist, author (d. 1970)
- 1895 - Ludv�k Svoboda politician and Czechoslovakia President (d. 1979)
- 1896 - Virgil Thomson, composer, music critic (d. 1989)
- 1913 - Lewis Thomas, physician, essayist (d. 1993)
- 1914 - [[L�on Zitrone]], animator
- 1914 - Joe DiMaggio, baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1915 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean politician
- 1920 - Ricardo Montalban, actor
- 1926 - Poul Anderson, science fiction writer (d. 2001)
- 1933 - Kathryn Grant, actress
- 1940 - Reinhard Furrer, physicist, astronaut (d. 1995)
- 1944 - Ben Stein, actor, game show host, political consultant
- 1947 - John Larroquette, actor
- 1959 - Charles Kennedy, British politician
- 1960 - Amy Grant, singer
- 1960 - John F. Kennedy Jr., journalist (d. 1999)
- 1971 - Christina Applegate, American actress
- 1981 - Barbara and Jenna Bush, daughters of President George W. Bush
Deaths
- 1884 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, chemist
- 1920 - Gaston Chevrolet, automobile pioneer
- 1944 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball commissioner
- 1947 - [[L�on-Paul Fargue]], poet
- 1959 - [[G�rard Philipe]], actor
- 1968 - Upton Sinclair, journalist, politician, writer
- 1970 - Yukio Mishima, writer
- 1972 - Henri Coanda, aerodynamics pioneer
- 1973 - Laurence Harvey, actor
- 1974 - U Thant, former UN Secretary-General
- 1974 - Nick Drake, musician
- 1981 - Jack Albertson, actor
- 1998 - Flip Wilson, actor, comedian
- 2002 - Karel Reisz, theatre director
Holidays and observances
Today is the celebration of the Muslim Eid for the year 2003 (it has no set date in the Gregorian calendar because the Muslim calendar is based on the lunar, instead of the solar, cycle).
See Also:
November 24 - November 26 - October 25 - December 25 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "November 25" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_25 November 25, 2003
