| November 25 |
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| 2348BC | | Biblical scholars have long asserted this to be the day of the Great Deluge, or Flood. |
| 1863 | | Union ends the siege of Chattanooga with the Battle of Missionary Ridge. |
| 1876 | | Colonel Ronald MacKenzie destroys Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife's village, in the Bighorn Mountains near the Red Fork of the Powder River, during the so-called Great Sioux War. |
| 1901 | | Japanese Prince Ito arrives in Russia to seek concessions in Korea. |
| 1914 | | German Field Marshal Fredrich von Hindenburg calls off the Lodz offensive 40 miles from Warsaw, Poland. The Russians lose 90,000 to the Germans' 35,000 in two weeks of fighting. |
| 1918 | | Chile and Peru sever relations. |
| 1921 | | Hirohito becomes regent of Japan. |
| 1923 | | Transatlantic broadcasting from England to America commences for the first time. |
| 1930 | | An earthquake in Shizouka, Japan kills 187 people. |
| 1939 | | Germany reports four British ships sunk in the North Sea, but London denies the claim. |
| 1946 | | The U.S. Supreme Court grants the Oregon Indians land payment rights from the U.S. government. |
| 1947 | | The Big Four meet to discuss the German and European economy. |
| 1951 | | A truce line between U.N. troops and North Korea is mapped out at the peace talks in Panmunjom, Korea. |
| 1955 | | The Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation in interstate travel. |
| 1963 | | The body of assassinated President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. |
| 1964 | | Eleven nations give a total of $3 billion to rescue the value of the British currency. |
| 1986 | | As President Ronald Reagan announces the Justice Department's findings concerning the Iran-Contra affair; secretary Fawn Hall smuggles important documents out of Lt. Col. Oliver North's office. |
| 1987 | | Typhoon Nina sticks the Philippines with 165 mph winds and a devastating storm surge and causes over 1,030 deaths. |
| 1992 | | Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to partition the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, beginning Jan. 1, 1993. |
| 2008 | | Sri Lanka is hit by Cyclone Nisha, bringing the highest rainfall the area had seen in 9 decades; 15 people die, 90,000 are left homeless. |
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