| November 25 | ||
| 2348 BC | Biblical scholars have long asserted this to be the day of the Great Deluge, or Flood. | |
| 1863 | Union ends the siege of Chattanooga with the Battle of Missionary Ridge. | |
| 1876 | Colonel Ronald MacKenzie destroys Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife‘s village, in the Bighorn Mountains near the Red Fork of the Powder River, during the so-called Great Sioux War. | |
| 1901 | Japanese Prince Ito arrives in Russia to seek concessions in Korea. | |
| 1914 | German Field Marshal Friedrich von Hindenburg calls off the Lodz offensive 40 miles from Warsaw, Poland. The Russians lose 90,000 to the Germans’ 35,000 in two weeks of fighting. | |
| 1918 | Chile and Peru sever relations. | |
| 1921 | Hirohito becomes regent of Japan. | |
| 1923 | Transatlantic broadcasting from England to America commences. | |
| 1930 | An earthquake in Shizouka, Japan kills 187 people. | |
| 1939 | Germany reports four British ships sunk in the North Sea, but London denies the claim. | |
| 1946 | The U.S. Supreme Court grants the Oregon Indians land payment rights from the U.S. government. | |
| 1947 | The Big Four meet to discuss the German and European economy. | |
| 1951 | A truce line between U.N. troops and North Korea is mapped out at the peace talks in Panmunjom, Korea. | |
| 1955 | The Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation in interstate travel. | |
| 1963 | The body of assassinated President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. | |
| 1964 | Eleven nations give a total of $3 billion to rescue the value of the British currency. | |
| 1986 | As President Ronald Reagan announces the Justice Department’s findings concerning the Iran-Contra affair; secretary Fawn Hall smuggles important documents out of Lt. Col. Oliver North’s office. | |
| 1987 | Typhoon Nina hits the Philippines with 165 mph winds and a devastating storm surge and causes over 1,030 deaths. | |
| 1992 | The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to partition the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, beginning Jan. 1, 1993. | |
| 2008 | Sri Lanka is hit by Cyclone Nisha, bringing the highest rainfall the area had seen in 9 decades; 15 people die, 90,000 are left homeless. | |
| Born on November 25 | ||
| 1844 | Carl Benz, pioneer of early motor cars. | |
| 1896 | Virgil Thompson, American composer (Four Saints in Three Acts, The Mother of Us All). | |
| 1910 | Alwin Nikolais, choreographer. | |
| 1913 | Lewis Thomas, physician and author (The Lives of a Cell). | |
| 1914 | Joe DiMaggio, Hall of Fame baseball star who led the New York Yankees to ten World Series. | |
| 1939 | Shelagh Delaney, playwright (A Taste of Honey). | |
| 1942 | Bob Lind, singer, songwriter who was an important influence in the 1960s folk rock movement in the US and the UK (“Elusive Butterfly”). | |
| 1945 | Gail Collins, journalist; the first woman to serve as the editorial page editor of The New York Times. | |
| 1953 | Jeffrey Skilling, former CEO of Enron Corp.; convicted of multiple felony charges in 2006, relating to Enron’s financial collapse. | |
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy Jr., elder son of US Pres. John F. Kennedy (assassinated three days before JFK Jr.’s third birthday); co-founded George magazine in 1995; died in a plane crash, July 16, 1999. | |
| 1971 | Christina Applegate, actress (Married . . . with Children, Samantha Who? TV series). | |
| 1981 | Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of US Pres. George W. Bush; she and her sororal twin sister were the first twin children of a US president; presently (2013) a special correspondent to NBC’s Today Show and a contributor to NBC Nightly News. | |
| 1986 | Amber Hagerman, whose kidnapping and murder in Jan. 1996 led to the development of the AMBER Alert system to notify surrounding communities when a child is reported missing or abducted. | |