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

• 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.

• 1120 – The White Ship sank in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, the only legitimate son of King Henry I of England.

• 1795 – Stanisław August Poniatowski (pictured), the last King of Poland, was forced to abdicate after the Third Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by Austria, Prussia, and Russia.

• 1970 – Japanese author Yukio Mishima committed the ritual suicide seppuku at the Japan Self-Defense Forces headquarters in Tokyo after an unsuccessful attempt to inspire the soldiers to stage a coup d'etat to restore the powers of the Japanese Emperor prior to the 1947 constitution.

• 1992 – Legislators in Czechoslovakia voted to dissolve their country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, effective January 1, 1993.