November 25

Paul Haupt, a pioneer of Assyriology in the United States who founded the Oriental Seminary at Johns Hopkins, was born on this day in 1858.

Angelo Roncalli, later Pope John XXIII who convened the Second Vatican Council, was born to a farming family at Sotto il Monte, Lombardy.

Before the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Albert Einstein presented 'The Field Equations of Gravitation,' the last of four November lectures completing general relativity.