What are the important events that happened on November 25? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

November 25: Facts & Myths About This Day

November 25 is the 329^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 36 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 12, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 490,008 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectaicosaenneagon’ day.

Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 84 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,722 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 25 Historical Events

• 571 BC –
  Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
• 1703 –
  The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.
• 1759 –
  An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000.
• 1833 –
  A massive undersea earthquake, estimated magnitude between 8.7-9.2 rocks Sumatra, producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast.
• 1947 –
  New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
• 1947 –
  Red Scare: The “Hollywood Ten” are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
• 1970 –
  In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic suicide 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.
• 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.
• 1992 –
  The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993.

Who were born on November 25?

• 1814 –
  Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (d. 1878)
• 1845 –
  José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese novelist (d. 1900)
• 1880 –
  Elsie J. Oxenham, British children’s author (d. 1960)
• 1902 –
  Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1985)
• 1924 –
  Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher
• 1941 –
  Gerald Seymour, English author
• 1947 –
  Jonathan Kaplan, American filmmaker
• 1951 –
  Bill Morrissey, American musician
• 1984 –
  Gaspard Ulliel, French actor
• 1988 –
  Jay Spearing, English footballer

Who died on November 25?

• 1785 –
  Richard Glover, British poet (b. 1712)
• 1865 –
  Heinrich Barth, German explorer (b. 1821)
• 1944 –
  Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American baseball commissioner (b. 1866)
• 1974 –
  U Thant, Burmese diplomat and UN Secretary-General (b. 1909)
• 1985 –
  Franz Hildebrandt, German theologian (b. 1909)
• 1985 –
  Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 1989 –
  Alva R. Fitch, American soldier (b. 1907)
• 1995 –
  Léon Zitrone, French journalist and television host (b. 1914)
• 2001 –
  Harry Devlin, American artist and children’s book illustrator (b. 1918)
• 2006 –
  Valentín Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)