Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 25
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November 25: National Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1943), Independence Day in Suriname (1975)
- 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 to become the King of Scots.
- 1120 - The vessel White Ship sank in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, the only legitimate son of King Henry I of England.
- 1795 - Stanisław August Poniatowski (pictured), the last King of Poland, was forced to abdicate after the Partition of Poland by Austria, Prussia and Russia.
- 1960 - The Mirabal sisters, who opposed the dictatorship of military strongman Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, were beaten and strangled to death.
- 1992 - Legislators in Czechoslovakia voted to dissolve their country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, effective January 1, 1993.
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