Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 25
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November 25: National Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1943), Independence Day in Suriname (1975)
- 1034 - Malcolm II of Scotland died. Duncan, the son of his second daughter, instead of Macbeth, the son of his eldest daughter, inherited the throne to become the King of Scots.
- 1795 - Stanisław II August Poniatowski (pictured), the last King of Poland, was forced to abdicate after the Partition of Poland by Austria, Prussia and Russia.
- 1960 - The Mirabal sisters, who opposed the dictatorship of military strongman Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, were beaten and strangled to death.
- 1984 - Band Aid: 36 leading pop musicians of Britain and Ireland gathered in a Notting Hill studio to record the song "Do They Know It's Christmas" to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
- 1992 - Velvet Divorce: Legislators in Czechoslovakia voted to split their country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, effective January 1, 1993.
Recent days: November 24 – November 23 – November 22 Template:SelAnnivFooter