What happened on 25 November?

10 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. 1911 Zapata's Plan of Ayala Zapata issues the Plan of Ayala demanding land reform, splitting from Madero and shaping the Mexican Revolution.
6. 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
7. 1936 Anti-Comintern Pact Pact between Germany and Japan against the Communist International; Italy joined 1937.
8. 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 the rights and liberties common to all the people of Ireland'. When the
9. 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.
10. 1899 Mahdist War / Fall of Khartoum ends Conventional end of Mahdist War / Fall of Khartoum.