Talk:November 25

Selected anniversaries entry for this day. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before editing this entry. --mav 00:52, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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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