On November 25, 1960, the Mirabal sisters were murdered by the regime of the dictator Rafael Leónicas Trujillo, in the Dominican Republic. The date was chosen to commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
OTHER ANIMALS
1491.- The agreement is signed by which Boabdil would deliver Granada to the Catholic Monarchs, the last episode of the Spanish Reconquest. The surrender took effect on January 6, 1492.
1897.- In Spain, the liberal Government of Práxedes Mateo Sagasta signs a decree granting autonomy to Cuba and Puerto Rico.
1915.- Albert Einstein presents the theory of relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
1965.- The head of the Congolese Armed Forces, Joseph Mobutu, carries out a coup d’état and seizes power.
1970.- Yukio Mishima, one of Japan’s great writers, commits suicide by committing harakiri.
1973.- Greek Army officers, commanded by Dimitrios Ioannidis, head of the Military Police, overthrow the colonels’ regime.
1975.- Suriname declares independence from the Netherlands.
1984.- The Colorado Party wins the first democratic elections in Uruguay after eleven years of dictatorship.
1987.- The Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes is awarded the Cervantes Prize.
– The president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, is awarded the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize, in recognition of his proposals for disarmament.
1991.- Japan is ahead of the world and begins to broadcast regular TV programming in high definition (HDTV).
1998.- The House of Lords rejects the immunity of Chilean General Augusto Pinochet, so he may be prosecuted and extradited.
1999.- The Cuban boy Elián González is rescued floating on a tire, after the boat in which he was fleeing to the state of Florida capsized, an event that caused a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Cuba.
2013.- The ruling party Juan Orlando Hernández wins the presidential elections in Honduras.
2019.- The Constitutional Court of Peru votes in favor of the release of opposition leader Keiko Fujimori, in preventive detention while she is investigated for alleged money laundering.
– Crushing victory of the pro-democratic bloc in the local elections in Hong Kong, after the previous protests registered in this Chinese city under special administration.
2021.- An accident in a coal mine in the Kemerovo region, in Siberia (Russia) leaves 51 dead.
2021.- The Spanish-Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa is elected member of the French Academy.
BIRTH
1562.- Félix Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright and poet.
1845.- José María d’Eca de Queiroz, Portuguese novelist.
1881.- Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Pope John XXIII.
1914.- Joe Dimaggio, American baseball player, ex-husband of Marilyn Monroe.
1915.- Augusto Pinochet, former president of Chile.
1951.- Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Spanish writer and journalist.
1960.- John F. Kennedy Jr, lawyer, son of the assassinated US president.
DEATHS
1560.- Andrea Doria, Genoese admiral and statesman.
1885.- Alfonso XII, king of Spain.
1958.- Victor de la Serna y Espina, Spanish writer and journalist.
2016.- Fidel Castro, leader of the Revolution and former president of Cuba.
2017.- Julio Cabrales, Nicaraguan poet.
2020.- Diego Armando Maradona, Argentine footballer.
2022.- Héctor Bonilla, Mexican actor and politician.
