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November 25 is the 329th (thirty-twenty-ninth) day of the year on the Gregorian calendar and the 330th in leap years.
Events that Happened “A Day as Today”

November 25 – A Day as Today – Events
- 1192: in Paris, San Juan de Mata (who later founded the Trinitarian Order), is ordained a priest by Bishop Maurice de Sully.
- 1491: in Santa Fe (Kingdom of Granada), Boabdil and the Catholic Monarchs sign the Capitulations of Granada.
- 1496: in Spain, Alonso Fernández de Lugo is named “advance” of the Canary Islands.
- 1541: the Villa de Santa Catalina de Guadalcázar del Valle de Moquegua (current city of Moquegua) is founded in Peru.
- 1550: in the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the government of Viceroy Luis de Velasco y Ruiz de Alarcón begins.
- 1578: in Madrid (Spain), Felipe II orders the American bishops to reprimand the clergy who mistreat the Indians.
- 1601: in the Zeeland region of the Netherlands, a flood makes the village of Vremdijke disappear forever (also Vroondijk, Vremdic, Frondic or Vrandic).
- 1724: in Madrid the first meeting of the General Courts of the Spanish kingdom is held.
- 1741: Elizabeth I of Russia locks up the child Tsar Ivan VI in prison and is appointed Empress of Russia; It will be called La Clemente.
- 1776: in Guyana, the Spanish Manuel Centurión takes possession of his position as general commander.
- 1783: in the United States, after the war of independence, the last British ship from the North American colonies set sail from the port of New York.
- 1812: in Mexico, during the War of Independence, a group of Mexican patriots take the city of Oaxaca that was in the power of the Spanish.
- 1821: in the town of Alajuela, the Republic of Costa Rica becomes independent from Spain.
- 1833: in the sea south of the island of Sumatra, 175 km south of Padang (Indonesia -2.5, 100.5) at 20:00 (local time) an earthquake of 8.9 degrees on the seismological scale of Richter, which lasts five minutes. It is much more durable and deadly than the one that happened at the same site 37 years earlier. The resulting tsunami produced an indeterminate number of casualties on nearby continents. The resulting eruption of two volcanoes produced a flood that buried several villages under 6 m of mud.
- 1839: In the state of Andhra Pradesh (India), a storm surge (12 m high) caused by a huge cyclone hits the port of Koringa, destroying 2,000 ships and killing 20,000 people. Already in 1789 the same thing had happened, with the same number of victims.
- 1842: in Paraguay the meeting of a National Congress begins, in which the Paraguayan flag is created. The country becomes independent from the Argentine Confederation.
- 1870: in Paraguay the National Constitution is sworn in. Cirilo Antonio Rivarola assumes the constitutional presidency of the Republic. He is seconded in the vice presidency by Cayo Miltos.
- 1874: in Paraguay, Juan Bautista Gill assumes the constitutional presidency of the Republic. Higinio Uriarte seconded him. President Gill decrees political amnesty and freedom for political prisoners.
- 1878: in Paraguay, Cándido Bareiro assumes the constitutional presidency of the Republic. It is seconded by Adolfo Saguier.
- 1882: in Paraguay, Bernardino Caballero assumes the constitutional presidency of the Republic. Juan Antonio Jara seconded him.
- 1885: in Atlanta (United States) the “dry law” is voted, which will enter into force in 1886.
- 1886: in the bay of San Sebastián (Tierra del Fuego), Argentine soldiers led by Captain Ramón Lista (1856-1897) kill 28 Ona Indians (San Sebastián beach massacre).
- 1886: in Paraguay, Patricio Escobar assumes the constitutional presidency of the Republic. José del Rosario Miranda seconded him.
- 1890: in Paraguay, Juan Gualberto González assumes the constitutional presidency of the Republic. Marcos Morínigo seconded him.
- 1894: in Paraguay, Juan Bautista Egusquiza assumes the constitutional presidency of the Republic. It is seconded by Facundo Ynsfrán Caballero.
- 1897: in Madrid, Luis Muñoz Rivera receives the Autonomous Charter of Puerto Rico from the President of the Spanish Government, Práxedes Mateo Sagasta.
- 1898: in Paraguay, Emilio Aceval assumes the constitutional presidency of the Republic. He is seconded by Andrés Héctor Carvallo Acosta.
- 1902: in Paraguay, Juan Antonio Escurra assumes the constitutional presidency of the Republic. It is seconded by Manuel Domínguez.
- 1902: in Chile, the commune of Peralillo was founded by supreme decree.
- 1906: in Paraguay, Benigno Ferreira assumes the constitutional presidency of the Republic. It is seconded by Emiliano González Navero.
- 1910: in Paraguay, Manuel Gondra assumes the constitutional presidency of the Republic. Juan Bautista Gaona second.
- 1911: the British government publishes the secret treaty with France signed in 1904, by which Egypt remained in the British area of influence and Morocco in the French.
- 1915: in Berlin (Germany), the physicist Albert Einstein presents his theory of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
- 1915: in the framework of the First World War, the Mackensen army conquers Amselfeld (Cosovia). The remnants of the Serbian army take refuge in Albania.
- 1918: in the framework of the First World War, the French Marshal Philippe Pétain enters Strasbourg.
- 1919: in the framework of the First World War, Germany and Poland sign a treaty on the eviction of West Prussia by the German side.
- 1921: in Japan, Prince Hirohito (heir to the Japanese Empire) becomes regent.
- 1922: in Italy, Benito Mussolini, prime minister of the new coalition government, receives full powers from the Italian Parliament.
- 1933: in Paraguay, a reconstruction of the National Anthem is published by Juan Manuel Sosa Escalada (1860-1940).
- 1935: in Greece, King George II, exiled in 1923, returns to the country.
- 1936: in Berlin —in the preliminary period to World War II— the Antikomintern Pact is signed, a political-military agreement signed by Germany and Japan.
- 1941: in the framework of World War II, Bulgaria and the Chinese government of Nanking adhere to the Anti-Comintern pact.
- 1945: in Poland, Jan Olszewski is appointed head of the new Government.
- 1956: in Mexico, Fidel Castro, his brother Raúl, Che Guevara and 79 other expedition members set sail from the port of Tuxpan on the yacht Granma to start the Cuban Revolution.
- 1959: In Havana (Cuba), Commander Ernesto Che Guevara is appointed president of the National Bank of Cuba.
- 1960: in the Dominican Republic, the murder of the Mirabal sisters, for their opposition to the dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, marks the beginning of the end of this dictatorship and the reason why this date is chosen to commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
- 1962: general elections are held in Uruguay. The 9 positions of the National Council of Government are renewed, the majority of which remains in the hands of the National Party.
- 1963: the funerals of former President John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald (his alleged assassin) are held simultaneously in the United States.
- 1965: Mobutu Sese Seko (head of the Armed Forces) deposes the president of Zaire, Joseph Kasa-Vubu, and usurps political power.
- 1970: at the headquarters of the Japanese army in Tokyo (Japan), the writer and playwright Yukio Mishima (45) commits the ritual suicide seppuku.
- 1975: Suriname becomes independent from the Netherlands.
- 1986: Unesco declares the cities of Toledo and Cáceres, the Mudejar monumental complex of Teruel and the Garajonay National Park a World Heritage Site.
- 1992: a new flag is adopted in Tajikistan.
- 1999: in the city of Miami (United States), the Cuban boy Elián González is rescued after losing his mother and other people when the boat in which they were fleeing to the state of Florida was wrecked; In the following months this case turned into a diplomatic crisis.
- 2001: in Worcester (United States), the biotechnology company Advanced Cell Technology reports that it has achieved a cloning of human embryonic cells.
- 2013: One Direction released their third studio album, titled Midnight Memories.
- 2014: Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, ratifies the Government’s support for the terrorist organizations Hezbollah and Hamas.
Who was Born “A Day as Today”?

November 25 – A Day as Today – Births
- 1545: Ana de Jesus, Spanish Religious (f. 1621).
- 1562: Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright and poet (d. 1635).
- 1569: Frederick Kettler, Latvian aristocrat (d. 1642).
- 1577: Piet Hein, Dutch military man (d. 1629).
- 1835 – Andrew Carnegie, British-American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1919).
- 1842: José María Múzquiz, Mexican lawyer and politician (d. 1901).
- 1844 – Karl Benz, German mechanical engineer (d. 1929).
- 1845: Eça de Queirós, Portuguese novelist (f. 1900).
- 1852: Eduardo de Hinojosa y Naveros, Spanish politician, historian and archaeologist (d. 1919).
- 1861: José Gil Fortoul, Venezuelan politician and writer (d. 1943).
- 1878: Georg Kaiser, German playwright (d. 1945).
- 1880: Leonard Sidney Woolf, British writer (d. 1969).
- 1881: John XXIII, Italian pope (d. 1963).
- 1883: Diego Martínez Barrio, Spanish politician (d. 1962).
- 1895: Anastás Mikoyan, Armenian Bolshevik and Soviet statesman (d. 1978).
- 1895: Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (d. 1991).
- 1896: Virgil Thomson, American composer (d. 1989).
- 1897: Willie The Lion Smith, American pianist, singer and songwriter (d. 1975).
- 1900: Rudolf Hoess (not to be confused with Rudolf Hess), German commander of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz (d. 1947).
- 1901: Arthur Liebehenschel, German Nazi leader (d. 1948).
- 1904: Ba Jin, Chinese writer (d. 2005).
- 1904: John Summerson, British art historian, architect and popularizer (d. 1992).
- 1906: Joaquín Collar Serra, Spanish military and pilot (d. 1933).
- 1909: Lely Morel, Argentine star, singer and actress (d. 2013).
- 1911: Roelof Frankot Dutch painter (d. 1984).
- 1914: Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999).
- 1915: Augusto Pinochet, Chilean military, politician and dictator between 1973 and 1990 (f. 2006).
- 1915: Armando Villanueva, Peruvian politician (f. 2013).
- 1916: María Adela Durango, Spanish writer.
- 1920: Ricardo Montalbán, Argentine-Mexican-American actor (d. 2009).
- 1920: Noel Neill, American actress (d. 2016).
- 1923: Mauno Koivisto, Finnish politician (d. 2017).
- 1924: Paul Desmond, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1977).
- 1925: María Asquerino, Spanish actress (d. 2013).
- 1926: Edesio Alvarado Barceló, Chilean writer (d. 1981).
- 1926: Poul Anderson, American science fiction writer (d. 2001).
- 1926: Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969).
- 1929: Jorge Julio López, Argentine bricklayer (disappeared in 2006) who was assassinated for having testified against Miguel Etchecolatz, who had tortured him between 1976 and 1983.
- 1931: Nat Adderley, American jazz musician (d. 2000).
- 1933: Juan Agustín Figueroa, Chilean lawyer and politician (f. 2016).
- 1934: José María Langlais, Argentine actor (d. 2006).
- 1935: José Esteban Lasala, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2007).
- 1938: Rosanna Schiaffino, Italian actress (d. 2009).
- 1939: Angelino Soler, Spanish cyclist.
- 1940ː Elena Arnedo Soriano, Spanish doctor (d. 2015)
- 1941: Percy Sledge, American singer (d. 2015).
- 1942: Mary da Cuña, Uruguayan actress and theater director (d. 2016).
- 1946: Bev Bevan, British drummer, of the Electric Light Orchestra band.
- 1947: Stéphane Courtois, French historian.
- 1947: John Larroquette, American actor.
- 1950: Giorgio Faletti, Italian singer, actor and writer (d. 2014).
- 1950: Francisco Barrio Terrazas, Mexican politician.
- 1951: Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Spanish journalist and writer.
- 1952: Ignacio Fernández Toxo, Spanish trade unionist.
- 1953: Manuel Hidalgo, Spanish journalist and writer.
- 1953: Jeffrey Skilling, American businessman.
- 1955: Ramoncín, Spanish musician and composer.
- 1958: Gustavo Arribas, Argentine politician, director of the intelligence agency of that country.
- 1959: Charles Kennedy, British politician (d. 2015).
- 1959: Steve Rothery, British guitarist, of the band Marillion.
- 1960: John F. Kennedy, Jr., American journalist (d. 1999).
- 1960: Frida Hartz, Mexican photographer and photojournalist.
- 1962: Hironobu Sakaguchi, Japanese video game developer, creator of the Final Fantasy saga.
- 1963: Kevin Chamberlin, American actor.
- 1964: Mark Lanegan, American singer, of the band Screaming Trees.
- 1965: Fernando Sallaberry, Puerto Rican singer of Spanish origin, of the band Menudo.
- 1965: Dougray Scott, British actor.
- 1966: Tim Armstrong, American musician, of the bands Rancid and The Transplants.
- 1966: Billy Burke, American actor.
- 1967: Niurka Marcos, Cuban actress and singer.
- 1968: Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress.
- 1968: Erick Sermon, American rapper.
- 1969: Anthony Peeler, American basketball player.
- 1971: Christina Applegate, American actress.
- 1973: Eddie Steeples, American actor.
- 1973: Erick Strickland, American basketball player.
- 1973: Octavio Dotel, Dominican baseball player.
- 1976: Clint Mathis, American footballer.
- 1976: Donovan McNabb, American football player.
- 1976: Erasmo Silva Espinoza, second Nicaraguan Eudist priest (Congregation of Jesus and Mary) and first ordained in the Minuto de Dios Province.
- 1977: Guillermo Cañas, Argentine tennis player.
- 1978: Taís Araújo, Brazilian actress
- 1978: Ringo Shiina, Japanese singer.
- 1980: Nick Swisher, American baseball player.
- 1980: Aaron Mokoena, South African footballer.
- 1981: Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer.
- 1981: Jenna Bush, American woman, daughter of former President George W. Bush.
- 1981: Jared Jeffries, American basketball player.
- 1981: Miguel Martínez, Spanish soccer player.
- 1983: Paty Cantú, Mexican singer.
- 1984: Gaspard Ulliel, French actor.
- 1986: Katie Cassidy, singer and American actress.
- 1986: Craig Gardner, English footballer.
- 1987: Alejo Malia, Spanish artist.
- 1987: El Arbi Hillel Soudani, Algerian footballer.
- 1988: Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian sled and skier (d. 2010).
- 1989: Tom Dice, Belgian singer-songwriter.
- 1990: Rye Rye, American rapper, dancer and actress.
- 1990: Bill Hamid, American footballer.
- 1991: Jamie Grace, singer-songwriter and American actress.
- 2002: Emilio Osorio, Mexican actor.
Who Left Us “A Day as Today”?

November 25 – A Day as Today – Deaths
- 1185: Lucius III, Italian pope (b. 1097).
- 1534: Beatriz Galindo, La Latina, Spanish writer and humanist (b.1465).
- 1560: Andrea Doria, Genoese admiral and statesman (b.1466).
- 1763: Abbe Prevost, French novelist (b.1697).
- 1830: Pierre Rode, French composer and violinist (b. 1774).
- 1849: Juan Arolas, Spanish writer (b.1805).
- 1865 – Heinrich Barth, German explorer (b. 1821).
- 1881: Theobald Böhm, German musician, flutist and composer (b. 1794).
- 1884: Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818).
- 1885: Alfonso XII, Spanish King (b. 1857).
- 1885: Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentine politician and president (b. 1837).
- 1885: Francisco Serrano y Domínguez, Spanish general and politician (b. 1810).
- 1902: Antonio Gisbert, Spanish painter (b. 1834).
- 1903: Sabino Arana, Spanish politician (b. 1865).
- 1909: Luis Montt Montt, Chilean writer and politician (b. 1848).
- 1925: Vajiravudh, Thai King (b.1881).
- 1944 – Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American jurist (b.1866).
- 1944: José Villalba Riquelme, Spanish military (b. 1856).
- 1949: Digno Núñez, Ecuadorian businessman and politician (b. 1866).
- 1950: Johannes Wilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize Winner for literature in 1944 (b. 1873).
- 1950: Mao Anying, Chinese military man, eldest son of Mao Zedong (b. 1922).
- 1956: Alexandr Dovzhenko, Ukrainian screenwriter, producer and filmmaker (b. 1894).
- 1958: Víctor de la Serna Espina, Spanish writer and journalist (b. 1896).
- 1959: Gerard Philipe, French actor (b.1922).
- 1967: Ossip Zadkine, Russian sculptor (b. 1890).
- 1968: Upton Sinclair, American writer (b.1878).
- 1970: Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (b. 1925).
- 1973: Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian actor and filmmaker (b.1928).
- 1974: Nick Drake, British musician (b.1948).
- 1974: U Thant, Burmese diplomat, secretary general of the UN between 1962 and 1971 (b. 1909).
- 1977: Richard Carlson, American actor and filmmaker (b.1912).
- 1985: Elsa Morante, Italian writer (b.1912).
- 1996: Ricardo López Aranda, Spanish writer (b. 1934).
- 1998: Flip Wilson, African-American comedian and actor (b.1933).
- 1999: Pierre Bezier, French mathematician (b.1910).
- 1999: Valentín Campa, Mexican railroad leader and communist politician (b.1904).
- 2000: Mario Giacomelli, Italian typographer and photographer (b. 1925).
- 2001: Alan Bray, British gay historian and activist (b.1948).
- 2002: Karel Reisz, Czech filmmaker (b.1926).
- 2003: Michael Small, American composer of film music (b. 1939).
- 2005: George Best, British footballer (b.1946).
- 2005: Richard Burns, British rally driver (b.1971).
- 2006: Valentín Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979).
- 2006: Leocán Portus, Chilean politician (b.1923).
- 2007: Kevin DuBrow, American singer, of the band Quiet Riot (b.1955).
- 2007: Enzo Viena, Argentine actor (b.1933).
- 2008: Ángel Campos Pámpano, Spanish poet (b.1957).
- 2011: Vasili Alekséyev, Russian weightlifter (b.1942).
- 2011: Anatoli Geleskul, Russian translator (b.1934).
- 2011: Sergio Poblete, Chilean military man (b.1918).
- 2012: Juan Carlos Calderón, Spanish musician and composer (b.1938).
- 2013: Ricardo Fort, Argentine businessman and artistic director (b. 1968).
- 2013: Greg Kovacs, Canadian bodybuilder (b.1968).
- 2013: Elke Neidhardt, actress and director of a German-Australian opera (b.1941).
- 2016: Fidel Castro, lawyer, politician, military and leader of the Cuban Revolution (b.1926).
What is Celebrated “A Day as Today”?

November 25 – A Day as Today – Celebrations
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
- Suriname: Independence Day.
- Argentina: Merchant Marine Day.
Catholic Santoral “A Day as Today”

November 25 – A Day as Today – Catholic Santoral
- Saint Adelard of Corbie
- Saint Alano of the Rock
- Saint Catherine of Alexandria
- Saint Dubricio
- St. Erasmus
- San García de Arlanza
- San Gonzalo de Mondoñedo
- Santa Jucunda
- San Marculo
- San maurino
- Saint Mercury of Cappadocia
- Saint Moses Martyr
- Saint Peter of Alexandria
- Saint Peter Yi Hoyong
- San Riel
- Blessed Beatrice de Ornacieux
- Blessed Isabel Achler
- Blessed Jacinto Serrano López
- Blessed Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi
- Blessed Nicolas Stenso
- Blessed Santiago Meseguer Burillo
What Sign of the Zodiac Rules those Born “A Day as Today”?

November 25 – A Day as Today – Zodiac sign
♐ Sagittarius:
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