November 25 in history: • 1510 – Adil Shahi–Portuguese conflicts: Afonso de Albuquerque, the governor of Portuguese India, led an armada to conquer Goa. → go there • 1940 – The de Havilland Mosquito, one of the most successful military aircraft in the Second World War, made its first flight. → go there • 1960 – Three of the four Mirabal sisters, who opposed the dictatorship of military strongman Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, were beaten and strangled to death. → go there • 1970 – After failing to instigate a military coup to restore the powers of the Emperor of Japan, author Yukio Mishima and a member of his militia committed ritual suicide. → go there • 1975 – Upon Suriname's independence from the Netherlands, Johan Ferrier (pictured) became its first president. → go there Died 1565: Hu Zongxian Wiki link Born 1870: Maurice Denis Wiki link Died 1885: Thomas A. Hendricks Wiki link Born 1950: Alexis Wright Wiki link Pictured: Johan Ferrier in 1975.