On This Day for November 25 - Japanese military base seized by Mishima Yukio, Diego Rivera is featured, and more

This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, click here to view. November 25 FEATURED BIOGRAPHY Diego Rivera READ MORE   FEATURED EVENT 1970 Japanese military base seized by Mishima Yukio READ MORE   Advertisement Advertisement   MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY 2016: Cuban political leader Fidel Castro, who transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere and became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America, died at age 90. [ Discover six interesting facts about Fidel Castro.] 2005: Irish-born football (soccer) player George Best, who was one of the premier forwards in the game's history and an iconic figure of "Swinging London" during the 1960s, died in London. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about football (soccer).] 2002: In London the Agatha Christie play The Mousetrap celebrated its 50th anniversary with a royal gala, having opened on November 25, 1952, and this performance being its 20,807th. [Test your knowledge of women writers of England.] 1975: Suriname gained its independence from the Netherlands. 1942: Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer chose Los Alamos, New Mexico, as the site of Project Y, which developed the first atomic bomb. [ Learn about the deadliest weapons in history.] 1936: Germany and Japan formed the Anti-Comintern Pact against the Soviet Union. SEE ALL EVENTS ON THIS DAY ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY 1915 Augusto Pinochet president of Chile 1887 Nikolai Vavilov Russian geneticist 1835 Andrew Carnegie American industrialist and philanthropist 1952 Imran Khan prime minister of Pakistan 1914 Joe DiMaggio American baseball player 1900 Rudolf Franz Höss German Nazi commandant SEE ALL BIOS ON THIS DAY   Advertisement   FOLLOW: To unsubscribe from Britannica e-mails, click here. Encyclopædia Britannica 325 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 United States © 2020 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Privacy Policy • Help