Independence
day
Suriname
UN
Day
International
Day for the Elimination of Violence against
Women
Events
of the day
571 BC – Servius Tullius,
king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his
victory over the Etruscans.
1034 – Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of
Scots dies. Donnchad, the son of his daughter
Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the
throne.
1120 – The White Ship sinks in the English
Channel, drowning William Adelin, son of
Henry I of England.
1177 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald
of Chatillon defeat Saladin at the Battle
of Montgisard.
1343 – A tsunami, caused by the earthquake
in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples
(Italy) and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi,
among other places.
1491 – The siege of Granada, the last Moorish
stronghold in Spain, begins.
1667 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha
in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest
windstorm ever recorded in the southern
part of Great Britain, reaches its peak
intensity which it maintains through November
27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000
people die.
1755 – King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants
royal protection to the Beaterio de la Compañia
de Jesus, now known as the Congregation
of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.
1758 – French and Indian War: British forces
capture Fort Duquesne from French control.
Fort Pitt is built nearby and it grows into
modern Pittsburgh.
1759 – An earthquake hits the Mediterranean
destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing
30,000-40,000.
1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last
British troops leave New York City three
months after the signing of the Treaty of
Paris.
1795 – Partitions of Poland: Stanislaus
August Poniatowski, the last king of independent
Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled
to Russia.
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.
1864 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate
operatives calling themselves the Confederate
Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than
20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt
to burn down New York City.
1874 – The United States Greenback Party
is established as a political party consisting
primarily of farmers affected by the Panic
of 1873.
1876 – Indian Wars: In retaliation for the
American defeat at the Battle of the Little
Bighorn, United States Army troops sack
Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village
at the headwaters of the Powder River.
1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in
Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
1917 – German forces defeat Portuguese army
of about 1200 at Negomano on the border
of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
1918 – Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian
crown land, proclaims its secession from
Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.
1926 – The deadliest November tornado outbreak
in U.S. history strikes on Thanksgiving
day. 27 twisters of great strength are reported
in the Midwest, including the strongest
November tornado, an estimated F4, that
devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. There
are 51 deaths in Arkansas alone, 76 deaths
and over 400 injuries in all.
1936 – In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign
the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult
on measures "to safeguard their common
interests" in the case of an unprovoked
attack by the Soviet Union against either
nation. The pact is renewed on the same
day five years later with additional signatories.
1940 – World War II: First flight of the
deHavilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
1943 – World War II: Statehood of Bosnia
and Herzegovina is re-established at the
State Anti-Fascist Council for the People's
Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1947 – Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten"
are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
1947 – New Zealand ratifies the Statute
of Westminster and thus becomes independent
of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
1950 – The Great Appalachian Storm of November
1950, otherwise known at the time as the
"Storm of the Century", strikes
New England with hurricane force winds resulting
in massive forest blow-downs and storm surge
damage along the Northeast coast including
New York City. This storm also brings blizzard
conditions to the Appalachian Mountains
and Ohio Valley, becoming one of the worst
storms of all time. 353 people die in the
event.
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.
1958 – French Sudan gains autonomy as a
self-governing member of the French Community.
1960 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican
Republic are assassinated.
1963 – President John F. Kennedy is buried
at Arlington National Cemetery.
1970 – In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and
one compatriot commit ritualistic suicide
after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
1973 – George Papadopoulos, head of the
military Regime of the Colonels in Greece,
is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier
General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
1975 – Suriname gains independence from
the Netherlands.
1977 – Former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr.
is found guilty by the Philippine Military
Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death
by firing squad.
1984 – 36 top musicians gather in a Notting
Hill studio and record Band Aid's Do They
Know It's Christmas in order to raise money
for famine relief in Ethiopia.
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.
1986 – The King Fahd Causeway is officially
opened in the Persian Gulf.
1987 – Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines
with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge
that destroys entire villages. At least
1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.
1992 – The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia
votes to split the country into the Czech
Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993.
1996 – An ice storm strikes the central
U.S. killing 26 people. A powerful windstorm
affects Florida and winds gust over 90 mph,
toppling trees and flipping trailers.
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.
2000 – The 2000 Baku Earthquake takes place,
Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaving 26 people
dead in Baku, Azerbaijan and becoming the
strongest earthquake in the region in 158
years.
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.
2009 – Devastating floods, known as the
2009 Saudi Arabian Floods, following freak
rains swamp the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
during an ongoing Hajj pilgrimage. 3,000
cars are swept away and 122 people perish
in the torrents, with 350 others missing.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Catherine of Alexandria
Elizabeth of Reute
Catherine Labouré
November 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Evacuation Day (19th century New York City)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of Suriname from the Netherlands in 1975.
International Day for the Elimination of
Violence against Women (International)
National Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Teacher's Day or Hari Guru (Indonesia)
Vajiravudh Day (Thailand)
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