Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 25

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November 25: National Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1943), Independence Day in Suriname (1975)

King Stanisław II August Poniatowski of Poland

1034 - Malcolm II of Scotland died. Duncan, the son of his second daughter, instead of Macbeth, the son of his eldest daughter, inherited the throne to become the King of Scots.
1795 - Stanisław II August Poniatowski (pictured), the last King of Poland, was forced to abdicate after the Partition of Poland by Austria, Prussia and Russia.
1960 - The Mirabal sisters, who opposed the dictatorship of military strongman Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, were beaten and strangled to death.
1984 - Band Aid: 36 leading pop musicians of Britain and Ireland gathered in a Notting Hill studio to record the song "Do They Know It's Christmas" to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
1992 - Velvet Divorce: Legislators in Czechoslovakia voted to split their country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, effective January 1, 1993.

Recent days: November 24 – November 23 – November 22

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