November 25: Evacuation Day in New York (1783); Holodomor Remembrance Day in Ukraine (2017)
Schutztruppe at the Battle of Ngomano
- 885 – A fleet of Viking ships sailed up the Seine to lay siege to Paris.
- 1759 – The second of two strong earthquakes struck the Levant and destroyed all the villages in the Beqaa Valley.
- 1917 – World War I: German troops invaded Portuguese East Africa (fighting pictured) in an attempt to escape superior British forces to the north and resupply from captured Portuguese materiel.
- 1947 – McCarthyism: Executives from movie studios agreed to blacklist ten screenwriters and directors who were jailed for refusing to give testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- 1960 – The Mirabal sisters, who opposed the dictatorship of military strongman Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, were beaten and strangled to death.
Osanna of Cattaro (b. 1493) · Hu Zongxian (d. 1565) · Josie Fitial (b. 1962)
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