4 Azar 1385 | Saturday 25 November 2006

This day in four calendars

1915 (111 years ago) Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
1917 (109 years ago) World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
1936 (90 years ago) In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation.
1943 (83 years ago) World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1984 (42 years ago) Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
1986 (40 years ago) Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1987 (39 years ago) Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 265 km/h (165 mph) and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.
1992 (34 years ago) The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with effect from January 1, 1993.

1562 (464 years ago) Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright and poet (died 1635)
1835 (191 years ago) Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist (died 1919)
1844 (182 years ago) Karl Benz, German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz (died 1929)
1881 (145 years ago) Pope John XXIII,
1915 (111 years ago) Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general and politician, 30th President of Chile (died 2006)
1971 (55 years ago) Christina Applegate, American actress
1981 (45 years ago) Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer
2002 (24 years ago) Pedri, Spanish footballer

1185 (841 years ago) Pope Lucius III,
1950 (76 years ago) Johannes V. Jensen, Danish author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1873)
1970 (56 years ago) Yukio Mishima, Japanese author, actor, and director (born 1925)
1974 (52 years ago) U Thant, Burmese lawyer and diplomat, 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations (born 1909)
1997 (29 years ago) Hastings Banda, Malawian physician and politician, 1st President of Malawi (born 1898)
2005 (21 years ago) George Best, Northern Irish footballer (born 1946)
2016 (10 years ago) Fidel Castro, Communist leader of Cuba, and revolutionary (born 1926)
2020 (6 years ago) Diego Maradona, Argentinian football player (born 1960)