25 November

Events

1343 - A tsunami devastates Naples an the Amalfi Coast.
1839 - A cyclone kills 300,000 fowk in Indie.
1885 - Daith o Alfonso XII o Spain.
1905 - Prince Carl o Denmark arrives in Norawa tae become King Haakon VII o Norawa.
1915 - Albert Einstein presents the field equations o General Relativity tae the Proushie Academy o Sciences.
1963 - The funeral o John F. Kennedy taks place in Washington, D.C.
1975 - Suriname gains unthirldom frae the Netherlands.
1975 - Six Sooth Americae dictators create Operation Condor, designed tae track doon an kill left-wing opponents.
1984 - Band Aid, creatit by Bob Geldof an Midge Ure, records the song Do They Know It's Christmas?.
1986 - The King Fahd Causeway linkin Saudi Arabie an Bahrain is opened.
2008 - A majority o voters in Greenland choose increased self-rule frae Denmark.
2008 - Opposeetion "Yellow Shirts" blockade Bangkok Airport tae get Thai Prime meenister Somchai Wongsawat tae demit.
2016 - Umwhile Cuban leader Fidel Castro dees agit 90.
2017 - Rugby union: Scotland achieves its record win ower a Soothren Hemisphere side, defeatin Australie 53-24 at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh.
2020 - Umwhile Argentine fitbawer Diego Maradona dees o a hairt attack agit 60.
2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The nummer o recordit cases warldwide gets tae 60 million.

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Births

1562 - Lope de Vega, Spaingie poet an playwricht (d. 1635)
1609 - Henrietta Maria o Fraunce, Queen Consort o Scotland, Ingland an Ireland (d. 1669)
1638 - Catherine o Braganza, Queen Consort o Scotland, Ingland an Ireland (d. 1705)
1835 - Andrew Carnegie, Scots-American businessman (d. 1919)
1844 - Karl Benz, German ingineer an inventor (d. 1929)
1881 - Pape John XXIII (d. 1963)
1895 - Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet-Armenie politeecian (d. 1978)
1895 - Ludvík Svoboda, 8t Preses o Czechoslovakie (d. 1979)
1900 - Jimmy Dunn, Scots fitbawer (d. 1963)
1914 - Joe DiMaggio, American basebaw player (d. 1999)
1915 - Augusto Pinochet, Preses o Chile (d. 2006)
1923 - Mauno Koivisto, Preses o Finland (d. 2017)
1936 - William McIlvanney, Scots writer (d. 2015)
1940 - Percy Sledge, American sangster (d. 2015)
1941 - Philippe Honoré, French cartoonist (d. 2015)
1951 - Alan Rough, Scots fitbawer
1952 - Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer an politeecian, Prime meenister o Pakistan
1959 - Jim Bett, Scots fitbawer
1959 - Charles Kennedy, Scots politeecian (d. 2015)
1960 - John F. Kennedy Jr., son o John F. Kennedy (d. 1999)
1962 - Blythe Duff, Scots actress
1971 - Christina Applegate, American actress
1981 - Xabi Alonso, Spaingie fitbawer
1985 - Marcus Hellner, Swadish cross-kintra skier
1990 - Eilish McColgan, Scots track-an-field athlete

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Daiths

1034 - Malcolm II o Scotland (b. 954)
1314 - John Balliol, King o Scots (b. 1249)
1560 - Andrea Doria, Genoese condottiero an admiral (b. 1466)
1791 - William Pitcairn, Scots medicinar an botanist (b. 1712)
1864 - David Roberts, Scots penter (b. 1796)
1885 - Alfonso XII o Spain (b. 1857)
1887 - John Ramsay, 13t Yerl o Dawhoosie, Scots naval commander, coortier an Leeberal politeecian (b. 1847)
1968 - Upton Sinclair, American writer an politeecian (b. 1878)
1974 - U Thant, Burmese Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions (b. 1909)
1997 - Hastings Banda, 1st Preses o Malawi (b. 1898)
2005 - George Best, Northren Erse fitbawer (b. 1946)
2016 - Fidel Castro, Preses o Cuba (b. 1926)
2017 - Rance Howard, American actor an writer (b. 1928)
2020 – Diego Maradona, Argentine fitbawer (b. 1960)

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