November 25 Holidays

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2015 — Pope Francis makes his first official visit to Africa. ↗
• 2009 — Jeddah floods: Freak rains swamp the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during an ongoing Hajj pilgrimage. Three thousand cars are swept away... ↗
• 2008 — Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall... ↗
• 2000 — The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest... ↗
• 1999 — A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1993 — Danny Kent, English motorcycle racer
• 1992 — Ana Bogdan, Romanian tennis player
• 1991 — Kyler Fackrell, American football player
• 1991 — Jamie Grace, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
• 1991 — Philipp Grubauer, German ice hockey player