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November 25
November 25 is the 329th (in leap years the 330th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 36 days remaining.
Events
1000-1899
- 1034 - Malcolm II of Scotland died. Duncan, the son of his second daughter, instead of Macbeth, the son of his eldest daughter, inherited the throne.
- 1120 - Wreck of the White Ship in the English Channel. William Adelin, son of Henry I of England drowned.
- 1177 - Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeated Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
- 1491 - The siege of Granada, last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
- 1542 - Battle of Solway Moss. An English army invades Scotland and defeats a Scottish army.
- 1758 - French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control.
- 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, was forced to abdicate and move to Russia.
- 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.
- 1874 - The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party made primarily of farmers financially hurt by the Panic of 1873.
- 1876 - Indian Wars: In retaliation for the dramatic 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.
1900-1999
2000-2099
Stem cell injection restores ability to walk
A team of Korean researchers reported on November 25, 2004, that they had transplanted multi-potent adult stem cells from umbilical cord blood to a patient suffering from a spinal cord injury and she can now walk on her own. The patient could not even stand up for the last 19 years. The team was co-headed by researchers at Chosun University, Seoul National University and the Seoul Cord Blood Bank (SCB). For the unprecedented clinical test, the scientists isolated adult stem cells from umbilical cord blood and then injected them into the damaged part of the spinal cord.
Births
1500-1899
- 1562 - Félix Lope de Vega, playwright (d. 1635)
- 1577 - Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander and folk hero (d. 1629)
- 1609 - Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (d. 1669)
- 1817 - John Bigelow, American statesman, author (d. 1911)
- 1830 - Lina Morgenstern , writer (d. 1909)
- 1835 - Andrew Carnegie, industrialist, philanthropist (d. 1919)
- 1844 - Karl Benz, engineer (d. 1929)
- 1846 - Carry Nation, temperance advocate (d. 1911)
- 1874 - Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910)
- 1881 - Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
- 1883 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, F.R.C., Rosicrucian, founder of AMORC
- 1883 - Merrill C. Meigs, newspaper publisher, aviation promoter (d. 1968)
- 1893 - Joseph Krutch , American naturalist, author (d. 1970)
- 1895 - Wilhelm Kempff, German conductor (d. 1991)
- 1895 - Ludvík Svoboda politician and Czechoslovakia President (d. 1979)
- 1896 - Virgil Thomson, composer, music critic (d. 1989)
1900-1999
- 1904 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete
- 1913 - Lewis Thomas, physician, essayist (d. 1993)
- 1914 - Léon Zitrone , animator
- 1914 - Joe DiMaggio, baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1915 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean politician
- 1920 - Ricardo Montalban, actor
- 1925 - Jeffrey Hunter, actor (d. 1969)
- 1926 - Poul Anderson, science fiction writer (d. 2001)
- 1933 - Kathryn Grant , actress
- 1940 - Reinhard Furrer, physicist, astronaut (d. 1995)
- 1940 - Joe Gibbs, Pro Football Hall of Fame coach
- 1944 - Ben Stein, actor, game show host, political consultant
- 1947 - John Larroquette, actor
- 1952 - Imran Khan, cricket player
- 1959 - Charles Kennedy, British politician
- 1960 - Amy Grant, singer
- 1960 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., son of President John F. Kennedy (d. 1999)
- 1965 - Cris Carter, American football player
- 1965 - Bernie Kosar, American football quarterback
- 1971 - Christina Applegate, American actress
- 1971 - Magnus Arvedson, hockey player
- 1978 - Shina Ringo, Japanese musician, singer, and song writer.
- 1979 - Thea Gilmore, British singer and songwriter
- 1981 - Barbara and Jenna Bush, daughters of President George W. Bush
- 1986 - Amber Hagerman, kidnapping, murder victim (d. 1996)
Deaths
300-1899
1900-1999
- 1920 - Gaston Chevrolet, automobile pioneer
- 1944 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball commissioner
- 1947 - Léon-Paul Fargue, poet
- 1959 - Gérard Philipe, actor
- 1968 - Upton Sinclair, journalist, politician, writer
- 1965 - Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (b. 1890)
- 1970 - Yukio Mishima, writer
- 1972 - Henri Coanda, aerodynamics pioneer
- 1973 - Laurence Harvey, actor
- 1974 - U Thant, former UN Secretary-General
- 1974 - Nick Drake, musician
- 1981 - Jack Albertson, actor
- 1998 - Flip Wilson, actor, comedian
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
- Celebration for the year 2003 of the Muslim festival of Eid (which has no set date in the Gregorian calendar because the Muslim calendar is based on the lunar, not the solar, cycle)
- Feast day of St Catherine Laboure
External links
November 24 - November 26 - October 25 - December 25 -- listing of all days
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