Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 25

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 * 1510 – Afonso de Albuquerque, the governor of Portuguese India, led an armada to conquer Goa.
 * 1678 – Trunajaya rebellion: After a series of difficult marches, allied Mataram and Dutch troops successfully assaulted the rebel stronghold of Kediri in eastern Java.
 * 1759 – The second of two strong earthquakes struck the Levant and destroyed all the villages in the Beqaa Valley.
 * 1795 – Stanisław II Augustus, the last king of Poland, was forced to abdicate after the Third Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
 * 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate forces were defeated at the Battle of Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, opening the door to the Union's invasion of the Deep South.
 * 1901 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4 premiered in Munich.
 * 1917 – World War I: German troops invaded Portuguese East Africa in an attempt to escape superior British forces to the north and resupply from captured Portuguese materiel.
 * 1936 – Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing that, if the Soviet Union attacked one of them, they would consult each other on what measures to take to "safeguard their common interests".
 * 1940 – The de Havilland Mosquito, one of the most successful military aircraft in the Second World War, made its first flight.
 * 1947 – McCarthyism: Executives from movie studios agreed to blacklist ten screenwriters and directors who were jailed for refusing to give testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
 * 1952 – Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ended as American and South Korean units abandoned their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle".
 * 1960 – Three of the four Mirabal sisters, who opposed the dictatorship of military strongman Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, were beaten and strangled to death.
 * 1970 – After failing to instigate a military coup to restore the powers of the Emperor of Japan, author Yukio Mishima publicly committed ritual suicide.
 * 1975 – Upon Suriname's independence from the Netherlands, Johan Ferrier (pictured) became its first president.
 * 1981 – A group of Conservative Party members of parliament wrote a letter outlining their opposition to the economic policy of Margaret Thatcher leading to speculation over a split from the party by the Gang of 25.
 * 1984 – Band Aid, a supergroup consisting of more than 30 leading British and Irish pop musicians, recorded the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
 * Born/died: | Andrea Doria |d|1560| Hu Zongxian |d|1565| Henrietta Maria of France |b|1609| Johann Georg Pisendel |d|1755| Maurice Denis |b|1870| Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha |b|1876| Hermann Kolbe |d|1884| Thomas A. Hendricks |d|1885| Alexis Wright |b|1950| Charles Kennedy |b|1959| John F. Kennedy Jr. |b|1960| Nick Drake |d|1974|