Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 25
This is a list of selected November 25 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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November 25: National Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1943); Independence Day in Suriname (1975)
- 1034 – After Malcolm II of Scotland died, Duncan, the son of his second daughter, instead of Macbeth (pictured), the son of his eldest daughter, inherited the throne to become the King of Scots.
- 1120 – William Adelin, the only legitimate son of King Henry I of England, drowned in the White Ship Disaster, leading to a succession crisis which would bring down the Norman monarchy of England.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate forces were defeated at the Battle of Chattanooga in Chattanooga, Tennessee, opening the door to the Union's invasion of the Deep South.
- 1970 – Japanese author Yukio Mishima committed the ritual suicide seppuku at the Japan Self-Defense Forces headquarters in Tokyo after an unsuccessful attempt to inspire the soldiers to stage a coup d'etat to restore the powers of the Japanese Emperor prior to the 1947 constitution.
- 1984 – Band Aid, a supergroup consisting of over 30 leading pop musicians of Britain and Ireland, recorded the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in a Notting Hill studio to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.