1960 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated. The 3 Dominican sisters, Patria, Minerva, Antonia Mirabal, were activists that were opposed to the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. On this day, they were brutally killed and their deaths staged to look like accidents. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mirabal-sisters-assassinated-dominican-republic#:~:text=On%20November%2025%2C%201960%2C%20a,their%20husbands%20are%20being%20held.
1034 – Mel Coluim mac Cineda, King of Scots dies. Donnchad, the son of his second daughter Bethc and Crnn of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
1177 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
1357 – Charles IV issues letter of protection of Jews of Strasbourg Alsace
1491 – The siege of Granada, last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
1500 – Governor De Bobadilla of Santo Domingo captures Christopher Columbus
1667 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha, in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people
1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the British Isles, reaches its peak intensity and maintains it through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people perish in the mighty gale
1715 – Sybilla Thomas Masters became the first American to be granted an English patent for cleaning and curing Indian corn.
1741 – Elizabeth of Russia seizes power in a coup with the aid of Imperial Russian guards in Saint Petersburg, Russia
1758 – During the French and Indian War, the British captured Fort Duquesne at what is now known as Pittsburgh.
1766 – Pope Clement XIII warns On the dangers of anti-Christian writings
1783 – During the Revolutionary War, the British evacuated New York. New York was their last military position in the U.S.
1809 – Benjamin Bathurst, a British diplomat, mysteriously disappeared (or more likely murdered) in Perleberg.
1841 – 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa
1850 – Texas relinquished one-third of its territory in exchange for $10 million from the U.S. to pay its public debts and settle border disputes. Ceased operations in 1889
1864 – Confederate plot to burn NYC, fails
1867 – Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
1874 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
1875 – Financial difficulties force the ruler of Egypt to seel his shares in the Suez Canal to England and France giving them effective control of the waterway
1885 – The first Canadian National Park is established at Banff as Rocky Mountains Park
1912 – Socialist International rejects that world war is coming
1926 – The worst, deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. November history strikes on Thanksgiving day. 27 twisters of great strength reported in the Midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. 51 deaths in Arkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all
1936 – In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, thus agreeing to consult on what measures to take “”to safeguard their common interests”” in case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation.
1938 – Lavrentiy Beria succeeds Nikolai Yezhov as the head of the Soviet secret police, NKVD, after Yezhov was executed on Joseph Stalin’s orders
1947 – Movie studio executives meeting in New York agreed to blacklist the “Hollywood 10,” who were cited a day earlier and jailed for contempt of Congress when they failed to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
1949 – Gene Autry’s single “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” appears on music charts; songwriter Johnny Marks adapted poem written by his brother-in-law Robert L. May for Montgomery Ward department stores
1950 – “Storm of the century” hits eastern US. Also known as the Appalachian Storm, the storm reached blizzard conditions and dumped nearly 60 inches of snow in the Appalachian area.
1955 – In the U.S., the Interstate Commerce Commission banned racial segregation on interstate trains and buses.
1957 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a stroke.
1960 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated. The 3 Dominican sisters, Patria, Minerva, Antonia Mirabal, were activists that were opposed to the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. On this day, they were brutally killed and their deaths staged to look like accidents.
1965 – Congo military coup under Gen Mobutu, President Kasavubu overthrown
1970 – Japanese author Yukio Mishima committed ritual suicide after giving a speech attacking Japan’s post-war constitution.
1973 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, President Richard M. Nixon called for a Sunday ban on the sale of gasoline to consumers and US cuts maximum speed limit cut to 55 MPH as an energy conservation measure
1975 – A loyalist gang nicknamed the “Shankill Butchers” undertakes its first “cut-throat killing”; the gang was named for its late-night kidnapping, torture and murder (by throat slashing) of random Catholic civilians in Belfast
1977 – Former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. was found “”guilty”” by the Military Commission No. 2 and was sentenced to death by firing squad
1982 – The Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day Fire destroys an entire city block, including the Northwestern National Bank building and the recently closed Donaldson’s Department Store
1983 – Mediators from Syria and Saudi Arabia announced a cease-fire in the PLO civil war in Tripoli, Lebanon.
1985 – Ronald W. Pelton was arrested on espionage charges. Pelton was a former employee of the National Security Agency. He was later convicted of ‘selling secrets’ to Soviet agents.
1986 – U.S. President Reagan and Attorney Gen. Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to rebels in Nicaragua. National Security Advisor John Poindexter resigned and Oliver North was fired.
1988 – Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed
1990 – Poland held its first popular presidential election.
1992 – The Czech parliament voted to split the country into separate Czech and Slovak republics beginning January 1, 1993.
1993 – Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Sedki escaped an attempt on his life when a bomb was detonated by Islamic militants near his motorcade.
1995 – Serbs protested in the streets of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo The protest was against a peace plan.
1997 – US telephone technician Richard Bliss arrested for spying in Russia
1998 – Britain’s highest court ruled that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose extradition was being sought by Spain, could not claim immunity from prosecution for the crimes he committed during his rule.
2005 – Polish Minister of National Defence Radek Sikorski opens Warsaw Pact archives to historians. Maps of possible nuclear strikes against Western Europe, as well as the possible nuclear annihilation of 43 Polish cities and 2 million of its citizens by Soviet-controlled forces, are released
2008 – A car bomb in St. Petersburg, Russia, kills three people and injures one
2012 – 11 people are killed and 30 are wounded by twin car bombs hitting a Protestant church in Nigeria
2013 – 17 people are killed and 37 are wounded in a cafe bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
2014 – Missouri Governor Jay Nixon orders hundreds more US National Guard troops to the town of Ferguson to prevent a second night of rioting and looting after a decision by Missouri grand jury not to bring charges against a white policeman who shot dead a black teenager
2017 – Longest known frozen embryo to be successfully born is delivered in Tennessee – Emma Wren Gibson, frozen 24 years ago
2019 – First defamation case in Australia by a sitting MP won by Sarah Hanson-Green over Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm, after he made sexist slurs against her
2020 – US President Donald Trump pardons former security advisor Michael Flynn, guilty of lying to the FBI
2021 – India has more girls than boys for the first time in its history and its population boom is ending, according to new government survey
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
