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100 YEARS AGO: HISTORICAL

EVENTS FROM NOVEMBER 1925

T he month of
November has
been home to many
historical events
over the years.
Here’s a look at
some that helped to shape the world
in November 1925.

The western comedy “Go West” The National Hockey League awards a Grabski and his cabinet ministers
opens on November 1. Silent film franchise to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, resign on November 13. The mass
legend Buster Keaton stars as on November 7. The club is named resignations occur over a difference
“Friendless” and Fatty Arbuckle the Pirates, which is also the name of opinion with the Bank Polski SA
appears in an uncredited role. of the city’s baseball team. The regarding economic issues plaguing

franchise moved to Philadelphia the country.
Sixteen people lose their lives in a for the 1930-31 season before
small village in Wales when a dam ceasing operations at the end of that The American Basketball League
bursts on November 2. The burst
comes after five days of heavy rains. campaign. opens its inaugural season on
November 15. The league is the
The Victrola Talking Machine The divorce trial of socialite Leonard first national professional basketball
Company introduces its new “Kip” Rhinelander and Alice Jones league in the United States.
electrically-recorded phonograph begins in White Plains, New York,
records on November 2. The on November 9. At the urging of General Motors purchases British
records can be played on the Victor his family, Rhinelander sought an auto manufacturer Vauxhall Motors
Orthophonic Victrola, which cost annulment of the marriage upon for $2.5 million on November 16.
around $95 in 1925, or the equivalent finding out that Jones was biracial.
of nearly $1,700 in 2025. An annulment was never granted, The autopsy of Tutankhamun
but the marriage ultimately ended in concludes on November 19. Limited
The film “The Pleasure Garden” is divorce, and neither Rhinelander or forensic science available at the time,
released on November 3. The release Jones ever remarried. coupled with significant deterioration
marks the directorial debut of English of the body, limits the findings of the
filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. On November 10, the Archbishop autopsy.
of Canterbury appoints a 12-person
Italian Socialist Tito Zaniboni is committee of six doctors and six The luxury train the Orange Blossom
arrested in a room at the Dragoni clergymen to investigate the veracity Special begins operations on
Hotel on November 4. The hotel is of faith healing. November 21. The train transports
located across the street from the travelers from New York City to
Chigi Palace in Rome, and Zaniboni Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five Miami, Florida.
is accused of renting a room with record their first songs together on
the intent of shooting Italian Prime November 12. The recordings are The “Hat Law” goes into effect in
Minister Benito Mussolini, who was considered highly influential for the Turkey on November 25. The law
scheduled to deliver a speech from development of jazz music. forbids the wearing of non-western
the palace balcony. headgear, including the fez or the
Polish Prime Minister Wladyslaw turban.