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November 25: Evacuation Day in New York City (1783)
- 1759 – The second of two strong earthquakes struck the Levant and destroyed all the villages in the Beqaa Valley.
- 1795 – Stanisław II Augustus (pictured), the last king of Poland, was forced to abdicate after the Third Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- 1901 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4 premiered in Munich.
- 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".
- 1981 – A group of Conservative 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.
- Henrietta Maria of France (b. 1609)
- Hermann Kolbe (d. 1884)
- Charles Kennedy (b. 1959)
- Nick Drake (d. 1974)
More anniversaries:
Did you know?
[edit]- ... that feelies (example pictured) have been used for everything from copy protection to sexual roleplay?
- ... that in 1959, Henri Claireaux claimed that a reduction to a subsidy to Saint Pierre and Miquelon had devolved the territory into "a state bordering on poverty"?
- ... that both Tim Walz and JD Vance were accused of sanewashing in the 2024 vice presidential debate?
- ... that Kazimierz Sakowicz spent three years recording the murder of tens of thousands in his diary, which was published decades later?
- ... that Rust Red Hills is being sold to renovate student housing, a court-approved move that museum associations say violates the ethics of deaccessioning?
- ... that Amaury du Closel founded the Forum Voix Etouffées to revive music that was suppressed by 20th-century totalitarian regimes?
- ... that 38 per cent of Welsh university students in 1900 were women?
- ... that Johnny Fripp was described as "a bundle of football-toting dynamite"?
- ... that Big Motor employees hit cars with socks stuffed with golf balls as part of an insurance-fraud scheme?