25 November History
- 2348 BC - Biblical scholars have long asserted this to be the day of the Great Deluge, or Flood.
- 1863 - Union ends the siege of Chattanooga with the Battle of Missionary Ridge.
- 1876 - Colonel Ronald MacKenzie destroys Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife's village, in the Bighorn Mountains near the Red Fork of the Powder River, during the so-called Great Sioux War.
- 1901 - Japanese Prince Ito arrives in Russia to seek concessions in Korea.
- 1914 - German Field Marshal Fredrich von Hindenburg calls off the Lodz offensive 40 miles from Warsaw, Poland. The Russians lose 90,000 to the Germans' 35,000 in two weeks of fighting.
- 1918 - Chile and Peru sever relations.
- 1921 - Hirohito becomes regent of Japan.
- 1923 - Transatlantic broadcasting from England to America commences for the first time.
- 1930 - An earthquake in Shizouka, Japan kills 187 people.
- 1939 - Germany reports four British ships sunk in the North Sea, but London denies the claim.
- 1946 - The U.S. Supreme Court grants the Oregon Indians land payment rights from the U.S. government.
- 1947 - The Big Four meet to discuss the German and European economy.
- 1951 - A truce line between U.N. troops and North Korea is mapped out at the peace talks in Panmunjom, Korea.
- 1955 - The Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation in interstate travel.
- 1963 - The body of assassinated President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1964 - Eleven nations give a total of $3 billion to rescue the value of the British currency.
- 1986 - As President Ronald Reagan announces the Justice Department's findings concerning the Iran-Contra affair; secretary Fawn Hall smuggles important documents out of Lt. Col. Oliver North's office.
25 November Birthdays
- 1844 - Carl Benz, pioneer of early motor cars.
- 1896 - Virgil Thompson, American composer (Four Saints in Three Acts, The Mother of Us All).
- 1910 - Alwin Nikolais, choreographer.
- 1913 - Lewis Thomas, physician and author (The Lives of a Cell).
- 1914 - Joe DiMaggio, Hall of Fame baseball star who led the New York Yankees to ten World Series.
- 1939 - Shelagh Delaney, playwright (A Taste of Honey).