25 November
Notable Births
Pedri
b. 2002
Spanish footballer (born 2002)
Talen Horton-Tucker
b. 2000
American basketball player (born 2000)
Kaja Juvan
b. 2000
Slovenian tennis player (born 2000)
Dennis Smith Jr.
b. 1997
American basketball player (born 1997)
Danny Kent
b. 1993
British motorcycle racer
Ana Bogdan
b. 1992
Romanian tennis player (born 1992)
Philipp Grubauer
b. 1991
German ice hockey player (born 1991)
Stephanie Hsu
b. 1990
American actress (born 1990)
Nodar Kumaritashvili
b. 1988
Georgian luge athlete (1988–2010)
Jay Spearing
b. 1988
English footballer (born 1986)
Trevor Booker
b. 1987
American basketball player (born 1987)
Katie Cassidy
b. 1986
American actress (born 1986)
Remona Fransen
b. 1985
Peter Siddle
b. 1984
Australian cricketer
Gaspard Ulliel
b. 1984
French actor (1984–2022)
Jhulan Goswami
b. 1983
Former Indian cricketer (born 1982)
Michael Garnett
b. 1982
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1982)
Xabi Alonso
b. 1981
Spanish football manager and player (born 1981)
Lee Bum-ho
b. 1981
South Korean baseball player (born 1981)
Barbara Bush (born 1981)
b. 1981
American activist
Notable Deaths
Bernardo Álvarez Afonso
d. 2025
Spanish Catholic bishop (1949–2025)
Earl Holliman
d. 2024
American actor (1928–2024)
Terry Venables
d. 2023
English football player and manager (1943–2023)
Diego Maradona
d. 2020
Argentine football player and manager (1960–2020)
Fidel Castro
d. 2016
Leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008
Ron Glass
d. 2016
American actor (1945–2016)
Jeremy Black (Royal Navy officer)
d. 2015
Royal Navy Admiral (1932–2015)
Lennart Hellsing
d. 2015
Swedish children's book writer and poet
Elmo Williams
d. 2015
Film editor (1913–2015)
Irvin J. Borowsky
d. 2014
American publisher and philanthropist
Sitara Devi
d. 2014
Indian dancer and actress (1920–2014)
Petr Hapka
d. 2014
Czech composer and singer (1944–2014)
Lou Brissie
d. 2013
American baseball player (1924–2013)
Ricardo Fort
d. 2013
Argentine socialite, entrepreneur and television director
Bill Foulkes
d. 2013
England international footballer (1932–2013)
Chico Hamilton
d. 2013
American jazz drummer and bandleader (1921–2013)
Egon Lánský
d. 2013
Czech politician, journalist, political commentator, spokesperson and columnist
Al Plastino
d. 2013
American comic artist
Lars Hörmander
d. 2012
Swedish mathematician (1931–2012)
Dinah Sheridan
d. 2012
British actress (1920–2012)
On This Day in History
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2009
Jeddah floods: Freak rains swamp the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during an ongoing Hajj pilgrimage. Three thousand cars are swept away and 122 people perish in the torrents, with 350 others missing.
2009 Jeddah floods
2008
Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades.
Cyclone Nisha (2008)
2000
The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0 kills 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, being the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
2000 Baku earthquake
1999
A five-year-old Cuban boy, Elián González, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.
Elián González
1992
The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with effect from January 1, 1993.
Federal Assembly (Czechoslovakia)
1987
Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 265 km/h (165 mph) and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.
Typhoon Nina (1987)
1986
Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
Iran–Contra affair
1986
The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
King Fahd Causeway
1985
A Soviet Air Force Antonov An-12 is shot down near Menongue in Angola's Cuando Cubango Province, killing 21.
Soviet Air Forces
1984
Thirty-six 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.
Notting Hill
1981
Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Pope John Paul II
1980
Sangoulé Lamizana, president of Upper Volta, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Colonel Saye Zerbo.
Sangoulé Lamizana
1977
Former Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad. He is later assassinated in 1983.
Ninoy Aquino
1975
Coup of 25 November 1975, a failed military coup d'état by Portuguese far-left activists seeking to hijack the Portuguese transition to democracy to establish a communist regime.
Coup of 25 November 1975
1975
Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
Suriname
1973
Georgios Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
Georgios Papadopoulos
1970
In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
Yukio Mishima
1968
The Old Student House in Helsinki, Finland is occupied by a large group of University of Helsinki students.
Old Student House, Helsinki
1963
State funeral of John F. Kennedy; after lying in state at the United States Capitol, a Requiem Mass takes place at Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle and the President is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
State funeral of John F. Kennedy
1960
The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
Mirabal sisters