📜 This Day in History

November 25

• 1034After Malcolm II of Scotland died at Glamis, Duncan, the son of his second daughter, rather than Macbeth, the son of his eldest daughter, inherited the throne to become the King of Scots.
• 1759The second of two strong earthquakes struck the Levant and destroyed all the villages in the Beqaa Valley.
• 1901Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4 premiered in Munich.
• 1947McCarthyism: Executives from movie studios agreed to blacklist ten screenwriters and directors who were jailed for refusing to give testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
• 1970After 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.
• 2013English-Irish boy band One Direction released their third studio album Midnight Memories which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and became the best-selling album of 2013.

Born on this day

• 1562Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright and poet (died 1635)
• 1835Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist (died 1919)
• 1881Pope John XXIII (died 1963)
• 1915Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general and politician, 30th President of Chile (died 2006)