November 25: Guru Nanak Gurpurab (Sikhism, 2015); Teachers' Day in Indonesia
- 1491 – Reconquista: The Granada War was effectively brought to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Granada between Castile-Aragon and the Emirate of Granada.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate forces were defeated at the Battle of Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, opening the door to the Union's invasion of the Deep South.
- 1915 – Albert Einstein (pictured) presented to the Prussian Academy of Science his field equations of general relativity.
- 1975 – Upon Suriname's independence from the Netherlands, Johan Ferrier became its first president.
- 1984 – Band Aid, a supergroup consisting of over 30 leading British and Irish pop musicians, recorded the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
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