November 25
People born on this day are Sagittarius.
- 1980
Sangoulé Lamizana, president of Upper Volta, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Colonel Saye Zerbo.
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Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
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A Soviet Air Force Antonov An-12 is shot down near Menongue in Angola's Cuando Cubango Province, killing 21.
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Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
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The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
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Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 265 km/h (165 mph) and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.
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The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with effect from January 1, 1993.
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A five-year-old Cuban boy, Elián González, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.
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The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0 kills 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, being the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
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Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades.
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Jeddah floods: Freak rains swamp the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during an ongoing Hajj pilgrimage. Three thousand cars are swept away and 122 people perish in the torrents, with 350 others missing.
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2002Pedri, Spanish footballer
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2000Talen Horton-Tucker, American basketball player
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2000Kaja Juvan, Slovenian tennis player
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1997Dennis Smith Jr., American basketball player
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1993Danny Kent, English motorcycle racer
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1992Ana Bogdan, Romanian tennis player
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1991Philipp Grubauer, German ice hockey player
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1990Stephanie Hsu, American actress
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1988Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (died 2010)
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1988Jay Spearing, English footballer
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1987Trevor Booker, American basketball player
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1986Katie Cassidy, American actress
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