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What happened on 25 November?

13 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

  1. 1915 General relativity published Einstein's theory of gravity as curvature of spacetime; predicts light-bending later confirmed by Eddington 1919.
  2. 1835 Born: Andrew Carnegie Scottish-American steel magnate; later philanthropist (Carnegie libraries, Hero Fund).
  3. 1914 Born: Joe DiMaggio American baseball star; 56-game hitting streak.
  4. 1120 White Ship disaster Henry I's heir William Adelin drowns when the White Ship sinks off Barfleur; succession crisis leads to the Anarchy.
  5. 1925 The Hat Law Parliament makes the brimmed Western hat compulsory for men and effectively outlaws the fez — because the fez, worn brimless so the forehead can touch the ground in prayer, is the
  6. 1936 Anti-Comintern Pact Pact between Germany and Japan against the Communist International; Italy joined 1937.
  7. 1913 The Irish Volunteers are founded Nationalist Ireland answers the UVF in kind: the Irish Volunteers enrol 180,000 men within a year 'to secure and maintain the rights and liberties common to the whole people of Ire
  8. 2022 Artemis I circles the Moon Fifty years after Apollo 17, the uncrewed Orion capsule flies farther than any human-rated spacecraft — the opening move of the return to the Moon.
  9. 2016 Death of Fidel Castro Cuba's revolutionary leader dies aged 90, two years after Raúl and Obama restored US–Cuban relations; his ashes are carried across the island to Santiago.
  10. 1875 Disraeli buys Suez Canal shares Prime Minister buys Egypt's stake in the Suez Canal Company with a Rothschild loan; secures Britain's route to India.
  11. 1952 The Mousetrap opens Christie's murder-mystery play opens in the West End and never closes, becoming the longest-running play in the world.
  12. 1899 Mahdist War / Fall of Khartoum ends Conventional end of Mahdist War / Fall of Khartoum.
  13. 1970 Mishima's coup attempt and ritual suicide With four members of his private militia, Mishima seizes a general's office at the Ichigaya base in Tokyo, harangues jeering soldiers to restore the Emperor's power, then commits s
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