Talk:November 25

This article is part of WikiProject Days of the Year, a Wikiproject dedicated to improving and maintaining the style guide for date pages.

--mav 00:52, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

This box: view • talk • edit

Selected anniversaries for this day

Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before editing this box.

November 25: National Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1943); Independence Day in Suriname (1975)

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.
1177 –The 16-year-old King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, already ravaged by leprosy, destroys a Muslim army led by Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard, saving the Crusader states from invasion.
1795 – Stanisław August Poniatowski (pictured), the last King of Poland, was forced to abdicate after the Third Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by Austria, Prussia, and Russia.
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.
1992 – Legislators in Czechoslovakia voted to dissolve their country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, effective January 1, 1993.

Archive – By email – More anniversaries...