November 25·Every year

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Designated by the UN in 1999, November 25th commemorates the Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic, murdered by the Trujillo dictatorship on this date in 1960. It launches 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence, ending on December 10th, Human Rights Day. An estimated 736 million women globally have experienced physical or sexual violence at least once.

Category: Awareness
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Notable · 2013

English-Irish boy band One Direction released their third studio album Midnight Memories which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and became the best-selling album of 2013.

2009Jeddah floods: Freak rains swamp the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during an ongoing Hajj pilgrimage. Three thousand cars are swept away and 122 people perish in the torrents, with 350 others missing.
2008Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades.
2000The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0 kills 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, being the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.