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25 November 2020 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 25 November 2020 was a Wednesday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Positions” by Ariana Grande.
- Top Film of 2020
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2020 was Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 25 November is Sagittarius.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 25 November 2020 fell in the Year of the Rat.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for November is Topaz.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 25 November 2020 was Waxing Gibbous.
On this day: 25 November
- 1984 Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
- 1986 Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
- 1986 The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
- 1992 The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with effect from January 1, 1993.
- 1999 A five-year-old Cuban boy, Elián González, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.
Famous people born on 25 November
- John F. Kennedy Jr., American lawyer, journalist, and publisher (1960–1999)
- Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer (born 1981)
- Christina Applegate, American actress (born 1971)
- Joel Kinnaman, Swedish actor (born 1979)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2020 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2020 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 8 January – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, announce that they plan to "step back as senior members" of the United Kingdom's royal family, and divide their time between the UK and North America.
- 6 March – COVID-19 in the UK: The Prime Minister announces £46 million in funding for research into a COVID-19 vaccine and rapid COVID-19 testing.
- 4 April – 2020 Labour Party leadership election: Keir Starmer is elected as the leader of the Labour Party, succeeding Jeremy Corbyn, and Angela Rayner is elected as deputy leader of the party.
Life in 2020
Prime Minister
Boris Johnson
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
£3.95
Loaf of Bread
£1.55
Average House
£239,196
Weekly Wage
£890.00
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