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Events on November 25

• 1491 The Treaty of Granada seals the end of the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim-controlled region on the Iberian Peninsula.
• 1500 Christopher Columbus’ third voyage ends with his being transported back to Spain in chains. Francisco de Bobadilla, his successor as governor, had him arrested in Santo Domingo on charges of mismanagement.
• 1731 The chorale cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme by Johann Sebastian Bach, based on the well-known chorale of the same name by Philipp Nicolai from 1599, is premiered.
• 1863 Union troops under General Ulysses Simpson Grant defeat the Confederates under General Braxton Bragg in the Battle of Chattanooga during the American Civil War. They thereby gain control over Tennessee and are able to advance farther south.
• 1936 Background to the Second World War in Europe: In Berlin, the Anti-Comintern Pact is signed between the German Reich and the Japanese Empire.
• 1945 The ÖVP under Leopold Figl wins an absolute majority in the first democratic National Council election in Austria after the Second World War.
• 1952 The premiere of the stage play The Mousetrap (orig. The Mousetrap) by Agatha Christie takes place at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and will subsequently become the world’s longest-running stage play.
• 1973 The first Sunday driving ban for private motor traffic in Germany and Switzerland is intended to help ease the effects of the first oil crisis.
• 1984 At the initiative of Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, Band Aid records Do They Know It’s Christmas? in London to raise money to combat the famine in Ethiopia.
• 1988 Rita Süssmuth is elected President of the German Bundestag as Philipp Jenninger’s successor.
• 1992 The Czechoslovak parliament approves the dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia with effect from January 1, 1993.
• 2012 German Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel becomes world champion for the third consecutive time.

Born on November 25

• 1881 Pope John XXIII, Italian cleric, Patriarch of Venice, pope
• 1901 Rudolf Höß, German SS officer, commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, war criminal
• 1912 Francis Durbridge, British crime writer
• 1940 Reinhard Furrer, German scientific astronaut and pilot
• 1940 Percy Sledge, American R&B and soul singer
• 1942 Rosa von Praunheim, German director
• 1960 John F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer and publisher
• 1971 Christina Applegate, American actress
• 1981 Xabi Alonso, Spanish football player
• 1991 Philipp Grubauer, German ice hockey player, Stanley Cup champion

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „25. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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