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November 25

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Event anniversary

Anti-Comintern Pact

89 years ago

Born this day

1881

John XXIII

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Oldest record

848th

Battle of Montgisard

event anniversary

Famous births26

1454 · 571 yrs

Catherine Cornaro

Catherine Cornaro (Venetian: Catarina Corner; Italian: Caterina Cornaro or Corner; Greek: Αικατερίνη Κορνάρο, romanized: Aikateríni Kornáro; 25 November 1454 – 10 July 1510) was the last monarch of the Kingdom of Cyprus, also holding the titles of Queen of Jerusalem and Queen of Armenia.

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RoyaltyDied aged 55

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1562 · 463 yrs

Lope de Vega

Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (25 November 1562 – 27 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age (1492–1659) of Baroque literature. In the literature of Spain, Lope de Vega is often considered second only to Miguel de Cervantes.

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LiteratureDied aged 72

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1609 · 416 yrs

Henrietta Maria of France

Henrietta Maria of France (French: Henriette Marie; 25 November 1609 – 10 September 1669) was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from her marriage to King Charles I on 13 June 1625 until his execution on 30 January 1649. She was the mother of Charles II and James II and VII.

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RoyaltyDied aged 59

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1638 · 387 yrs

Catherine of Braganza

Catherine of Braganza (25 November 1638 – 31 December 1705) was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from 21 May 1662 to 6 February 1685, through her marriage to Charles II of England. After his death, Catherine returned to Portugal and served as regent for her brother Peter II in 1701, and again in 1704–1705.

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RoyaltyDied aged 67

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1814 · 211 yrs

Robert Mayer

Julius Robert von Mayer (25 November 1814 – 20 March 1878) was a German physician, chemist, and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics.

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ScienceDied aged 63

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1835 · 190 yrs

Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late-19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history.

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BusinessDied aged 83

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1844 · 181 yrs

Carl Benz

Carl (or Karl) Friedrich Benz (German:; born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant; 25 November 1844 – 4 April 1929) was a German engine designer and automotive engineer. His Benz Patent-Motorwagen from 1885 is considered the first practical, modern automobile and the first car to be put into series production.

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ArtDied aged 84

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1845 · 180 yrs

José Maria de Eça de Queirós

José Maria de Eça de Queiroz or Queirós (European Portuguese:; 25 November 1845 – 16 August 1900) is generally considered to have been the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style. Zola considered him to be far greater than Flaubert.

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LiteratureDied aged 54

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1870 · 155 yrs

Maurice Denis

Maurice Denis (French:; 25 November 1870 – 13 November 1943) was a French painter, decorative artist, and writer. An important figure in the changing world of late 19th-century European art, Denis is associated with Les Nabis, Symbolism, and later Neo-classicism.

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ArtDied aged 72

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1881 · 144 yrs

John XXIII

Pope John XXIII (born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli; 25 November 1881 – 3 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 28 October 1958 until his death on 3 June 1963.

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1895 · 130 yrs

Ludvík Svoboda

Ludvík Svoboda (Czech pronunciation:; 25 November 1895 – 20 September 1979) was a Czech general and politician. He fought in both World Wars, for which he was regarded as a national hero, and he later served as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1968 to 1975.

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1900 · 125 yrs

Rudolf Höss

Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; German:; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer, the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and a war criminal.

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Famous deaths14

1763 · 262 yrs

Antoine François Prévost

Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles (UK: PRAY-voh deg-ZEEL, US: pray-VOH -⁠, French:; 1 April 1697 – 25 November 1763), usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French priest, author, and novelist.

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LiteratureDied aged 66

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1885 · 140 yrs

Alfonso XII of Spain

Alfonso XII (Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo de Borbón y Borbón; 28 November 1857 – 25 November 1885), also known as El Pacificador (Spanish: the Peacemaker), was King of Spain from 29 December 1874 to his death in 1885.

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RoyaltyDied aged 27

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1885 · 140 yrs

Thomas A. Hendricks

Thomas Andrews Hendricks (September 7, 1819 – November 25, 1885) was an American politician and lawyer from Indiana who served as the 16th governor of Indiana from 1873 to 1877 and the 21st vice president of the United States from March 1885 until his death in November of that year.

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PoliticsDied aged 66

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1950 · 75 yrs

Johannes V. Jensen

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (Danish pronunciation:; 20 January 1873 – 25 November 1950) was a Danish author, known as one of the great Danish writers of the first half of 20th century.

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LiteratureDied aged 77

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1956 · 69 yrs

Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Alexander or Aleksandr Petrovich Dovzhenko, also known as Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko (September 10 1894 – November 25, 1956), was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin.

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FilmWould be 132

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1959 · 66 yrs

Gérard Philipe

Gérard Philipe (French pronunciation:; born Gérard Albert Philip; 4 December 1922 – 25 November 1959) was a prominent French actor who appeared in 32 films between 1944 and 1959 known for his outspoken communist views.

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FilmWould be 103

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1968 · 57 yrs

Upton Sinclair

Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author, muckraker journalist, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California.

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1970 · 55 yrs

Yukio Mishima

Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡公威, Hiraoka Kimitake; 14 January 1925 – 25 November 1970), known by his pen name Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫, Mishima Yukio), was a Japanese novelist, playwright, short story writer, actor, martial artist, model, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his seppuku.

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1974 · 51 yrs

U Thant

Thant (Burmese: သန့်, MLCTS: san., pronounced; 22 January 1909 – 25 November 1974), known honorifically as U Thant, was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first Asian to hold the position. He held the office for a record 10 years and one month.

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MilitaryWould be 117

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1974 · 51 yrs

Nick Drake

Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English musician. An accomplished acoustic guitarist, Drake signed to Island Records at the age of twenty while still a student at the University of Cambridge.

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1997 · 28 yrs

Hastings Banda

Hastings Kamuzu Banda (c. 1898 or 1906 – 25 November 1997) was a Malawian politician who served as the leader of Malawi from 1964 to 1994. He served as Prime Minister from independence in 1964 to 1966, when Malawi was a Dominion/Commonwealth realm.

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2005 · 20 yrs

George Best

George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a right winger, spending most of his club career at Manchester United. A skillful dribbler, he is considered one of the greatest players of all time, along with being considered one of the most talented to play.

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Events5

1177 · 848 yrs

Battle of Montgisard

The Battle of Montgisard was fought between the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Ayyubid Sultanate of Egypt on 25 November 1177 at Montgisard, in the Levant between Ramla and Yibna.

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War

1936 · 89 yrs

Anti-Comintern Pact

The Anti-Comintern Pact, officially the Agreement against the Communist International, was an anti-communist pact concluded between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan on 25 November 1936 and directed against the Communist International (Comintern).

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Politics

1942 · 83 yrs

Operation Mars

Operation Mars (Russian: Операция «Марс»), also known as the Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive Operation (Russian: Вторая Ржевско-Сычёвская наступательная операция), was the codename for an offensive launched by Soviet forces against German forces during World War II.

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War

1975 · 50 yrs

Operation Condor

Operation Condor (Spanish: Operación Cóndor; Portuguese: Operação Condor) was a campaign of political repression by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America, involving intelligence operations, coups, and assassinations of left-wing sympathizers in South America.

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War

2018 · 7 yrs

Kerch Strait incident

The Kerch Strait incident was an international incident that occurred on 25 November 2018 in the Kerch Strait, during which the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) coast guard fired upon and captured three Ukrainian Navy vessels after they attempted to transit from the Black Sea into the Sea of Azov through the…

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