November 25 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇲🇲 Myanmar – National Day.
🇹🇭 Thailand – Vajiralongkorn Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Russian Military Peacekeeping Forces Day.
🇮🇩 Indonesia – Teachers’ Day.
🇸🇷 Suriname – Independence Day.
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina – Statehood Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1120 – The White Ship sank in the English Channel.
– 1177 – Battle between Saladin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
-1225 – Jalaluddin Manguberdi, defeated in the battle against the Mongols on the banks of the Indus River, crossed the river with 4,000 warriors.
-1487 – Elizabeth I ascends the throne of England.
-1667 – An earthquake in the Caucasus kills 80,000 people.
-1759 – An earthquake in Beirut and Damascus kills 40,000 people.
-1783 – British troops lose New York City forever.
-1795 – Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is deposed and exiled to Russia.
-1833 – A tsunami caused by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake on the island of Sumatra devastated Indonesia.
– 1839 – More than 300,000 people died in a tsunami in India.
-1867 – Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
– 1892 – Pierre de Coubertin proposed the revival of the Olympic Games.
-1915 – Albert Einstein presented his Theory of Relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
-1936 – Germany and Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact.
-1947 – New Zealand gained independence from Great Britain.
-1975 – Suriname gained independence from the Netherlands.
– 1986 – Bahrain was connected to the mainland by the King Fahd Causeway.
-1987 – Typhoon Nina killed 1,036 people in the Philippines.
-1992 – President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov paid an official visit to Iran.
-1992 – The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia adopted a resolution to divide the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
-1993 – The President of the Republic of Uzbekistan paid an official visit to the United Kingdom.
-1994 – The Egyptian Center for Education and Science was opened in Tashkent.
-1996 – A snowstorm occurred in Florida, killing 26 people.
-2000 – A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku, killing 26 people.
– 2001 – Taliban rebels took prisoners in the Qala-i Jangi fortress.
– 2008 – Cyclone Nisha killed 15 people in Sri Lanka and left 90,000 homeless.
– 2009 – Floods in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killed 122 people and left 350 missing.
