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Today in history is NOVEMBER 25

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Significant events
1177 - Battle of Monjizare takes place.
1867 - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite.
1917 - Elections to the Constituent Assembly are held in Russia, in which the Bolsheviks receive only 25% of the vote.
1932 - The Transcaucasian Branch of the All-Union Academy was established on the basis of the Caucasus Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. After a while, the Azerbaijan branch of the Transcaucasian Branch of the All-Union Academy was opened.
1936 - Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact.
1961 - The Mirabal sisters, a political figure in the Dominican Republic, are brutally murdered by presidential decree.
1967 - Permanent operation of the Baku metro and regular movement of trains began.
1972 - "People's Friendship" park was built near Shikh beach in Baku.
1973 - A coup overthrows Greek President Andres Papandreou.
1977 - The United Nations adopts a resolution condemning Israel's occupation of Arab lands.
1991 - A monument to Nizami Ganjavi was unveiled in Moscow.
1991 - The first exhibition of Iranian industrial goods was held in Azerbaijan, which ended on December 5.
1992 - Czechoslovakia is divided into two independent states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
1997 - A protocol on the establishment of the GUAM bloc (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova) was signed in Baku.
2000 - A strong earthquake shakes the Absheron Peninsula, seriously damaging old buildings.
2008 - For the first time in Azerbaijan, funds were allocated from the state budget to finance the media.
Births
1810 - Nikolai Pirogov - Russian surgeon.
1820 - Mikhail Dostoevsky - Russian writer.
1844 - Karl Bens - German engineer, inventor, pioneer of car production, car designer. (b. 1929).
1881 - Pope John XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli)
1887 - Nikolai Vavilov - Russian biologist, geneticist, breeder.
1875 - Fatali khan Khoyski - Azerbaijani political figure, the first prime minister of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. (b. 1920).
1889 - Rashad Nuri Guntekin - Turkish writer.
1901 - Marziya Davudova - Azerbaijani actress.
1915 - Augusto Pinochet - Chilean dictator.
1918 - Imran Gasimov - Azerbaijani writer, screenwriter.
1926 - Paul Anderson - American science fiction.
1981 - Xabi Alonso - Spanish footballer.
Deaths
735 - Bilge Khagan
1994 - Mammad Burjaliyev - Azerbaijani actor.
2013 - Vera Ivanko (1993-2013) - Russian actress, hit the train
Holidays and special days
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
National Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina (since 1943).
Syria's Independence Day.  

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