2348 BC Thousands of years ago the Hebrew farmer Noah was the only person left who remembered God and his creation. The world was flooded with evil and God's response to the severe situation was to have Noah and his family build an ark that enabled them to survive a widespread flood over the Earth. The rest of humanity was wiped out. According to Anglican Archbishop James Ussher's Old Testament chronology, November 25, 2348 was the day of the Great Deluge, or Flood.
1748 Isaac Watts, the British non conformist writer of hymns died on November 25, 1748 aged 74. In 1707 he published Hymns and Spiritual Songs, the first real hymnbook in the English language. Before this book, only Psalms or adaptations of existing poems were sung in churches but Watts saw no reason why Christians shouldn't sing God's praises in the form of good poetry specifically written for that purpose.
1795 Stanisław II August, the last King of Poland, acceded to the throne in 1764. 31 years later, Russia, Prussia and Austria, fearing the mere existence of a Polish state, arranged for, and executed a partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Stripped of all meaningful power, Poniatowski abdicated on November 25, 1795 and spent the last years of his life in semi-captivity in Saint Petersburg.
1835 Businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835 in a Dunfermline weavers cottage in Scotland. Carnegie came over to the USA as a boy, where he got a job as a steel factory worker. In 1892 he created the Carnegie Steel Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When he retired, Carnegie used his large amounts of money to fund schools, libraries and universities.
1846 Carrie Amelia Nation, the radical teetotaler was born on November 25, 1846. Nation was an imposing 6ft tall 175 lb figure, who dressed like a deaconess. Her alcoholic first husband had left Carrie with an abiding hatred for liquor and saloons ans she embarked on a crusade touring America saloons where she berated customers and tried to damage as much of the places as she could with her hatchet.
1847 Fish food manufacturer Albert P. Halfhill was born in Ohio on November 25, 1847. Halfhill originated the idea of removing the natural fish oil of tuna and substituting it with a vegetable oil before cooking it with compressed hot steam to produce a desirable food. Halfhill is considered the father of the tuna packing industry and was the first to use the slogan "chicken of the sea" as a sales gimmick.
1853 The Victorian poet Alfred Tennyson and his family first rented the 18th century Farringford House at Bedbury Lane, Freshwater Bay on the Isle of Wight on November 25, 1853, eventually buying three the property years later. Tennyson's wife, Emily ran their Isle of Wight, Farringford farm successfully. Her wheat grown there won international prizes.
1869 Ferdinand de Lesseps, the developer of the Suez Canal, married at 64 on November 25, 1869 his second wife, 21-year-old Mlle Louise-Hélène Autard de Bragard. They wed a few months after the successful completion of the Suez Canal. Louise-Hélène Autard de Bragard was the daughter of a former Magistrate of Mauritius, and she came from a well-established family. They had 12 children together.
1881 Pope Saint John XXIII was born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli in a stone farm house on November 25, 1881 in Sotto il Monte, a small country village 40 miles from Milan. His father was a sharecropper who had saved enough money to buy a plot of his own. Roncalli was unexpectedly elected pope in 1958 at age 76; he surprised those who expected him to be a caretaker pope by calling the historic Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), which promulgated unexpected changes in the Catholic Church.
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| The Building of Noah's Ark (painting by a French master of 1675). |
1748 Isaac Watts, the British non conformist writer of hymns died on November 25, 1748 aged 74. In 1707 he published Hymns and Spiritual Songs, the first real hymnbook in the English language. Before this book, only Psalms or adaptations of existing poems were sung in churches but Watts saw no reason why Christians shouldn't sing God's praises in the form of good poetry specifically written for that purpose.
1795 Stanisław II August, the last King of Poland, acceded to the throne in 1764. 31 years later, Russia, Prussia and Austria, fearing the mere existence of a Polish state, arranged for, and executed a partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Stripped of all meaningful power, Poniatowski abdicated on November 25, 1795 and spent the last years of his life in semi-captivity in Saint Petersburg.
1835 Businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835 in a Dunfermline weavers cottage in Scotland. Carnegie came over to the USA as a boy, where he got a job as a steel factory worker. In 1892 he created the Carnegie Steel Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When he retired, Carnegie used his large amounts of money to fund schools, libraries and universities.
1846 Carrie Amelia Nation, the radical teetotaler was born on November 25, 1846. Nation was an imposing 6ft tall 175 lb figure, who dressed like a deaconess. Her alcoholic first husband had left Carrie with an abiding hatred for liquor and saloons ans she embarked on a crusade touring America saloons where she berated customers and tried to damage as much of the places as she could with her hatchet.
1847 Fish food manufacturer Albert P. Halfhill was born in Ohio on November 25, 1847. Halfhill originated the idea of removing the natural fish oil of tuna and substituting it with a vegetable oil before cooking it with compressed hot steam to produce a desirable food. Halfhill is considered the father of the tuna packing industry and was the first to use the slogan "chicken of the sea" as a sales gimmick.
1853 The Victorian poet Alfred Tennyson and his family first rented the 18th century Farringford House at Bedbury Lane, Freshwater Bay on the Isle of Wight on November 25, 1853, eventually buying three the property years later. Tennyson's wife, Emily ran their Isle of Wight, Farringford farm successfully. Her wheat grown there won international prizes.
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1869 Ferdinand de Lesseps, the developer of the Suez Canal, married at 64 on November 25, 1869 his second wife, 21-year-old Mlle Louise-Hélène Autard de Bragard. They wed a few months after the successful completion of the Suez Canal. Louise-Hélène Autard de Bragard was the daughter of a former Magistrate of Mauritius, and she came from a well-established family. They had 12 children together.
1881 Pope Saint John XXIII was born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli in a stone farm house on November 25, 1881 in Sotto il Monte, a small country village 40 miles from Milan. His father was a sharecropper who had saved enough money to buy a plot of his own. Roncalli was unexpectedly elected pope in 1958 at age 76; he surprised those who expected him to be a caretaker pope by calling the historic Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), which promulgated unexpected changes in the Catholic Church.
1896 The first parking summons in Britain was issued against a man named William Marshall on November 25, 1896. His summons was later dropped, as people were unsure of the regulations governing "horseless carriages".
1901 A German female named Auguste Deter was admitted to a mental institution, the Institution for the Mentally Ill and for Epileptics (Irrenschloss) in Frankfurt, Germany on November 25, 1901. There, she was examined by Dr. Alois Alzheimer. and became the first woman diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.
1915 After three years of working day and night on his General Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein finally came up with the observed gravitational attraction between masses results from the warping of space and time by those masses. On November 25, 1915, Einstein presented his equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy Of Sciences.
1925 A raccoon was sent to the White House to be served for Thanksgiving dinner on November 25, 1926, but President Calvin Coolidge and his family kept her as a pet instead naming her Rebecca. As a companion for Rebecca, Reuben, a male raccoon was acquired by a White House police officer, but the two reportedly did not get along. Members of the White House staff reportedly disliked the raccoons, since they often ripped both clothing — especially expensive silk stockings — and upholstery.
1937 BBC radio's first quiz show, broadcast on November 25, 1937 at 5.30pm, was an inter-regional spelling competition. A one-off radio contest for children, it gave rise to a long-running quiz series, Regional Round.
1944 On November 25, 1944 a carrier pigeon Paddy was decorated for his effort in the war against Nazi Germany. In the service of Royal Air Force, Paddy had achieved to get a message from Normandy to England in the fastest crossing of the English Channel: 4 hours and 50 minutes. When receiving his Order of Merit Paddy was described as "exceptionally intelligent".
1952 Agatha Christie’s murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on November 25, 1952 starring Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim. It is known for its twist ending, which the audience is traditionally asked not to reveal after leaving the theater. The play is the longest running West End show (of any type) ever.
1963 John F. Kennedy had a state funeral on November 25, 1963, three days after his murder, near to the White House, where his body was laid to rest in Arlington, Virginia. Over 800,000 mourners lined the streets standing in silence. The funeral was attended by statesmen representing counties around the globe. Kennedy's brain was removed and stored in the National Archive after his autopsy. Three years later the brain went missing, and has never been seen since,
1969 John Lennon returned his MBE to Buckingham Palace on November 25, 1969, partly in protest at Britain’s involvement in the Biafran war in Nigeria. It was taken to the tradesmen’s entrance at Buckingham Palace in his Mercedes with a letter to the Queen. It read: "I am returning this MBE in protest against Britain’s involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam, and against Cold Turkey slipping down the charts."
1975 The Suriname flag was adopted on November 25, 1975, upon the country's independence. The star represents the unity of all ethnic groups, the red stripe stands for progress and love, the green hope and fertility, and the white bands peace and justice.
2012 November 25, 2012 was the first day since 1960 that there was no reported murder or manslaughter in New York City. This was attributed to a combination of factors, including the implementation of effective crime reduction strategies, increased community engagement, and a decline in the overall crime rate.
2016 Fidel Castro died in Santiago de Cuba aged 90 on November 25, 2016. The longest-serving non-royal head of state in the 20th and 21st centuries, the Marxist revolutionary had governed the Republic of Cuba for 47 years as Prime Minister from 1959 -1976 and then as President from 1976 -2006.
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