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571 BC – Servius Tullius, legendary sixth king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
1034 – Máel Coluim mac Cináeda (Malcolm II), King of Scots, dies. Donnchad (Duncan I), the son of his daughter Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne. Duncan I is the historical basis of the "King Duncan" in Shakespeare's play Macbeth.
1120 – The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son and heir of Henry I of England.
1177 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Châtillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
1343 – A tsunami, caused by an earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples (Italy) and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.
1487 – Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen consort of England.
1491 – The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, ends with the Treaty of Granada.
1667 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
1715 – The first English patent for corn processing is granted to an American.
1755 – King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants royal protection to the Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesus, now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.
1758 – French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Later, Fort Pitt will be built nearby and grow into modern Pittsburgh.
1759 – An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000.
1783 – American Revolutionary War: Nearly three months after the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the American Revolution, the last British soldiers withdraw from New York City, the last British military position in the United States. After the last Redcoat departed New York, U.S. General George Washington entered the city in triumph to the cheers of New Yorkers. The city had remained in British hands since its capture in September 1776.
1794 – The Greenback (Independent) Party organizes in Indianapolis.
1795 – Partitions of Poland: Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.
1826 – The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
1833 – A massive undersea earthquake, estimated magnitude between 8.7-9.2, rocks Sumatra, producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast.
1839 – A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
1863 – American Civil War: At the Battle of Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga, Tennessee, in stunning fashion by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
1864 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
1874 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
1876 – American Indian Wars: In retaliation against some of the Indians who had participated in the massacre of Custer and his men at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops under the leadership of General Ranald Mackenzie destroy the sleeping village of Cheyenne living with Chief Dull Knife on the headwaters of the Powder River.
1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
1915 – Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
1917 – World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
1918 – Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.
1918 – A full two weeks after an armistice ended World War I in Europe, Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck of Germany finally surrenders his forces in German East Africa.
1926 – The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history strikes on Thanksgiving Day. Twenty-seven twisters of great strength are reported in the Midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. There are 51 deaths in Arkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.
1936 – In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories.
1940 – World War II: First flight of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
1941 – HMS Barham is sunk by a German torpedo during World War II.
1941 – Adm. Harold R. Stark, U.S. chief of naval operations, told Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, that both President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull thought a Japanese surprise attack was a distinct possibility.
1943 – World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1947 – Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
1947 – New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
1950 – The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950, known at the time as the "Storm of the Century", strikes New England with hurricane force winds resulting in massive forest blow-downs and storm surge damage along the Northeast coast including New York City. This storm also brings blizzard conditions to the Appalachian Mountains and Ohio Valley. It dumps record amounts of snow in parts of the Appalachian Mountains and causes millions of dollars in damages, becoming one of the worst storms of all time. Three hundred fifty-three people die in the event.
1952 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It will become the longest continuously-running play in history.
1952 – Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ends as American and South Korean units abandon their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle".
1958 – French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
1960 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
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1970 – In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
1973 – George Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
1975 – Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
1977 – Former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr., is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad.
1981 – Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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.
1986 – Iran–Contra affair: Three weeks after a Lebanese magazine reported that the United States had been secretly selling arms to Iran, 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.
1986 – The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
1987 – Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.
1990 – After a howling wind- and rainstorm on Thanksgiving Day, Washington state's historic floating Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge broke apart and sank to the bottom of Lake Washington, between Seattle and its suburbs to the east.
1992 – The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with effect from January 1, 1993.
1996 – An ice storm strikes the central U.S., killing 26 people. A powerful windstorm affects Florida and winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers.
1999 – A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off Florida coast.
1999 – The United Nations establishes the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate the murder of three Mirabal sisters for resistance against the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.
2000 – The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
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.
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.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Katharine, Virgin and Martyr. Double.
Contemporary Western
Catherine Labouré
Catherine of Alexandria
Elizabeth of Reute
Catherine of Alexandria
Elizabeth of Reute
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Isaac Watts (Lutheran and Anglican Church)
James Otis Sargent Huntington (Episcopal Church)
Eastern Orthodox
November 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Apodosis of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple.
Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome (101)
Great-martyr Mercurius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (259)
Great-martyr Catherine of Alexandria (305)
Holy 150 Orators, martyred by fire,
with Great-martyr Catherine of Alexandria (305)
Martyrs Augusta (Faustina) the Empress, by beheading,
Porphyrius Stratelates and 200 soldiers at Alexandria, by the sword (305)
Holy 670 Martyrs, by the sword
Hieromartyr Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria (311)
Venerable Peter the Silent (the Hesychast), of Galatia and Antioch (429)
Saint Clement of Ohrid, Bishop of Ohrid (Achrida),
Enlightener of Bulgaria and Wonderworker (916)
Hieromartyr Moses, a priest in Rome, noted for his zeal in preaching the Gospel
and his firm stand against Novatianism, martyred under Decius (251)
Saint Jucunda, a holy virgin in Reggio in Aemilia in Italy
and a spiritual daughter of St Prosper, Bishop of that city (466)
Saint Alanus, Abbot and founder of Lavaur in Gascony in France (7th century)
Saint Imma (Immina), born in Würzburg, she became abbess
of a convent in Karlburg in Germany (c. 752)
Saint Bernold, monk-priest of Ottobeuren Abbey in Bavaria in Germany,
renowned as a wonderworker (c. 1050)
Martyr Magdalena (1931)
New Hieromartyrs:
Seraphim (Ostroumov), Archbishop of Smolensk (1937)
Yaroslav Savitsky, Protopresbyter of Moscow (1937)
Priests Hilarion Soloviev and Simeon Afonkin, of Alma Ata (1937)
John Vladimirsky of Tver (1937)
Cosmas Korotkikh of Moscow (1937)
Gregory Voinov, John Janusz, Basil, Alexander, John Tarasov,
Victor Smirnov, Andrew Shershnev, Priests (1937)
Varlaam Popov (1937)
Martyr Paul (1937)
Martyr Nicholas (1938)
Icon of the Theotokos 'Isaac'
Icon of the Theotokos 'Daugazpils, in Latvia
Repose of priest Pavel Florensky of Sergiev Posad (1937)
Repose of Protopriest Rostislav Gan in Australia (1975)
Apodosis of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple.
Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome (101)
Great-martyr Mercurius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (259)
Great-martyr Catherine of Alexandria (305)
Holy 150 Orators, martyred by fire,
with Great-martyr Catherine of Alexandria (305)
Martyrs Augusta (Faustina) the Empress, by beheading,
Porphyrius Stratelates and 200 soldiers at Alexandria, by the sword (305)
Holy 670 Martyrs, by the sword
Hieromartyr Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria (311)
Venerable Peter the Silent (the Hesychast), of Galatia and Antioch (429)
Saint Clement of Ohrid, Bishop of Ohrid (Achrida),
Enlightener of Bulgaria and Wonderworker (916)
Hieromartyr Moses, a priest in Rome, noted for his zeal in preaching the Gospel
and his firm stand against Novatianism, martyred under Decius (251)
Saint Jucunda, a holy virgin in Reggio in Aemilia in Italy
and a spiritual daughter of St Prosper, Bishop of that city (466)
Saint Alanus, Abbot and founder of Lavaur in Gascony in France (7th century)
Saint Imma (Immina), born in Würzburg, she became abbess
of a convent in Karlburg in Germany (c. 752)
Saint Bernold, monk-priest of Ottobeuren Abbey in Bavaria in Germany,
renowned as a wonderworker (c. 1050)
Martyr Magdalena (1931)
New Hieromartyrs:
Seraphim (Ostroumov), Archbishop of Smolensk (1937)
Yaroslav Savitsky, Protopresbyter of Moscow (1937)
Priests Hilarion Soloviev and Simeon Afonkin, of Alma Ata (1937)
John Vladimirsky of Tver (1937)
Cosmas Korotkikh of Moscow (1937)
Gregory Voinov, John Janusz, Basil, Alexander, John Tarasov,
Victor Smirnov, Andrew Shershnev, Priests (1937)
Varlaam Popov (1937)
Martyr Paul (1937)
Martyr Nicholas (1938)
Icon of the Theotokos 'Isaac'
Icon of the Theotokos 'Daugazpils, in Latvia
Repose of priest Pavel Florensky of Sergiev Posad (1937)
Repose of Protopriest Rostislav Gan in Australia (1975)
Coptic Orthodox
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