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Nov. 10, 1925: The lawyer for spurned wife Alice Jones Rhinelander responds to accusations she tricked millionaire’s son Leonard “Kip” Rhinelander into marrying her by hiding her biracial identity. Yes, Alice is Black, her team declares at the divorce trial, and Kip knew it. 1/3
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Nov. 10, 1925: The lawyer for spurned wife Alice Jones Rhinelander responds to accusations she tricked millionaire’s son Leonard “Kip” Rhinelander into marrying her by hiding her biracial identity. Yes, Alice is Black, her team declares at the divorce trial, and Kip knew it. 1/3
Nov. 10, 1925: “The world’s richest young woman,” Abby Rockefeller Milton, and her husband, David Milton, return to New York from a honeymoon in Europe on the liner Leviathan.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Nov. 10, 1925: “The world’s richest young woman,” Abby Rockefeller Milton, and her husband, David Milton, return to New York from a honeymoon in Europe on the liner Leviathan.
Nov. 10, 1925: Richard Burton, a storied Shakespearian actor and movie star with a stentorian voice and a world-weary aspect, is born in Pontrhydyfen, Wales. Nominated eight times for Oscars with no wins, he made headlines over his tempestuous relationship with Elizabeth Taylor.
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Nov. 10, 1925: Richard Burton, a storied Shakespearian actor and movie star with a stentorian voice and a world-weary aspect, is born in Pontrhydyfen, Wales. Nominated eight times for Oscars with no wins, he made headlines over his tempestuous relationship with Elizabeth Taylor.
Nov. 10, 1925: Craftsmen work on “Divinity of Light,” a 23-foot gilded bronze statue that will go atop the Alabama Power Building in Birmingham. The graceful goddess grasping lightning bolts is being completed in a New York studio under sculptor Edward Field Sanford.
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Nov. 10, 1925: Craftsmen work on “Divinity of Light,” a 23-foot gilded bronze statue that will go atop the Alabama Power Building in Birmingham. The graceful goddess grasping lightning bolts is being completed in a New York studio under sculptor Edward Field Sanford.
Nov. 10, 1925: Ross Gorman gives saxophone lessons to his pupil August Sarentino, a painter, on the Brooklyn Bridge during the latter's lunch hour. According to International News Service, the bridge worker refuses to leave his scaffold, so his teacher comes to him.
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Nov. 10, 1925: Ross Gorman gives saxophone lessons to his pupil August Sarentino, a painter, on the Brooklyn Bridge during the latter's lunch hour. According to International News Service, the bridge worker refuses to leave his scaffold, so his teacher comes to him.
Nov. 10, 1925: On the day before Armistice Day, traders at the Paris Bourse observe a moment of silence to honor France's war dead.
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Nov. 10, 1925: On the day before Armistice Day, traders at the Paris Bourse observe a moment of silence to honor France's war dead.
Nov. 10, 1925: Members of the Rabbinical Board of New York on the White House lawn after they had a meeting with President Coolidge. Among them are two prominent Orthodox rabbis from Eastern Europe, Gavriel Margolis and Abraham Yudelovitch.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Nov. 10, 1925: Members of the Rabbinical Board of New York on the White House lawn after they had a meeting with President Coolidge. Among them are two prominent Orthodox rabbis from Eastern Europe, Gavriel Margolis and Abraham Yudelovitch.
Nov. 10, 1925: Women factory workers have a snowball fight after the first snowfall of the season in Bedford, England.
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Nov. 10, 1925: Women factory workers have a snowball fight after the first snowfall of the season in Bedford, England.
Nov. 9, 1925: An unidentified group of Japanese-Americans and billiards equipment in Seattle.
November 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Nov. 9, 1925: An unidentified group of Japanese-Americans and billiards equipment in Seattle.
Nov. 9, 1925: Initiates into the Phi Kappa Phi honor society at Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts at Amherst) with a professor and the school's president.
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Nov. 9, 1925: Initiates into the Phi Kappa Phi honor society at Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts at Amherst) with a professor and the school's president.
Nov. 9, 1925: Two journalists in the southern French city of Grasse fight a pistol duel over an exchange of insults in their respective newspapers. Neither is wounded, and they reconcile.
November 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Nov. 9, 1925: Two journalists in the southern French city of Grasse fight a pistol duel over an exchange of insults in their respective newspapers. Neither is wounded, and they reconcile.
Nov. 9, 1925: Earl Jellicoe, first sea lord of Britain during WWI, is presented with a cup emblematic of the freedom of the city on a visit to Newcastle.
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Nov. 9, 1925: Earl Jellicoe, first sea lord of Britain during WWI, is presented with a cup emblematic of the freedom of the city on a visit to Newcastle.
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Nov. 9, 1925: “Body and Soul,” a movie with an all-Black cast including Paul Robeson in his debut playing both an imposter preacher and his earnest brother, is released. It’s directed, produced, written and distributed by Oscar Micheaux, a tireless pioneer of Black cinema. 1/3
November 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Nov. 9, 1925: “Body and Soul,” a movie with an all-Black cast including Paul Robeson in his debut playing both an imposter preacher and his earnest brother, is released. It’s directed, produced, written and distributed by Oscar Micheaux, a tireless pioneer of Black cinema. 1/3
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Nov. 9, 1925: Col. Billy Mitchell opens his defense before an Army court martial trying him in Washington on insubordination charges. The officer's lawyer Frank Reid reads a long analysis of Mitchell's criticism of War Department aviation policy to show his charges are true. 1/2
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Nov. 9, 1925: Col. Billy Mitchell opens his defense before an Army court martial trying him in Washington on insubordination charges. The officer's lawyer Frank Reid reads a long analysis of Mitchell's criticism of War Department aviation policy to show his charges are true. 1/2
Nov. 9, 1925: The pulpit, organ and choir seats of the First Presbyterian Church of Edmonton are decorated for Canadian Thanksgiving.
November 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Nov. 9, 1925: The pulpit, organ and choir seats of the First Presbyterian Church of Edmonton are decorated for Canadian Thanksgiving.
Nov. 9, 1925: Nobel-winning Caltech physicist Robert Millikan gives a name to near-light-speed entities observed coming to Earth from space: cosmic rays. He confirms a 1912 find made by Austria's Carl Hess. Millikan believes these are photons; they're now known to be particles.
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Nov. 9, 1925: Nobel-winning Caltech physicist Robert Millikan gives a name to near-light-speed entities observed coming to Earth from space: cosmic rays. He confirms a 1912 find made by Austria's Carl Hess. Millikan believes these are photons; they're now known to be particles.
Nov. 9, 1925: Children at recess outside their school in Zolfo Springs, Fla.
November 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Nov. 9, 1925: Children at recess outside their school in Zolfo Springs, Fla.
Nov. 9, 1925: Miron Cristea (right, foreground) leaves his palace in Bucharest before being enthroned as the first Orthodox patriarch of Romania by King Ferdinand. He is attended by other Eastern patriarchs.
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Nov. 9, 1925: Miron Cristea (right, foreground) leaves his palace in Bucharest before being enthroned as the first Orthodox patriarch of Romania by King Ferdinand. He is attended by other Eastern patriarchs.
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Nov. 9, 1925: The divorce trial of white millionaire's son Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander and his biracial wife, Alice Jones Rhinelander, opens in White Plains, N.Y. The husband claims he was tricked into thinking she was white when they eloped last year. 1/2
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Nov. 9, 1925: The divorce trial of white millionaire's son Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander and his biracial wife, Alice Jones Rhinelander, opens in White Plains, N.Y. The husband claims he was tricked into thinking she was white when they eloped last year. 1/2
Nov. 9, 1925: Naval forces in the Pacific. The Dutch cruiser Sumatra, which is stationed to defend the East Indies, and a prototype of a Japanese navy seaplane, the E2N, taking off during a test flight off Yokosuka.
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Nov. 9, 1925: Naval forces in the Pacific. The Dutch cruiser Sumatra, which is stationed to defend the East Indies, and a prototype of a Japanese navy seaplane, the E2N, taking off during a test flight off Yokosuka.
Nov. 9, 1925: Armenian refugee children living in an orphanage run by Near East Relief in Corinth, Greece, spell out a message of Christian charity.
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Nov. 9, 1925: Armenian refugee children living in an orphanage run by Near East Relief in Corinth, Greece, spell out a message of Christian charity.
Nov. 9, 1925: Edith Maida Lessing is sentenced to two years in prison for using the mail to distribute "obscene" material: a pamphlet urging abolition of marriage, free love and shared property. The 50-year-old chooses jail time rather than accept probation in Los Angeles.
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Nov. 9, 1925: Edith Maida Lessing is sentenced to two years in prison for using the mail to distribute "obscene" material: a pamphlet urging abolition of marriage, free love and shared property. The 50-year-old chooses jail time rather than accept probation in Los Angeles.
Nov. 9, 1925: A bomb explodes at the home of a Chicago police officer, killing him. The department is at a loss for a motive in the murder of "square policeman" Frederick Schmitz, using a weapon usually employed by bootleggers or labor racketeers. The case has never been solved.
November 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Nov. 9, 1925: A bomb explodes at the home of a Chicago police officer, killing him. The department is at a loss for a motive in the murder of "square policeman" Frederick Schmitz, using a weapon usually employed by bootleggers or labor racketeers. The case has never been solved.
Nov. 9, 1925: Edith Rogers, a newly elected member of the House, calls on President Coolidge at the White House. She urges the president, a fellow Massachusetts Republican, to try to set up arbitration in the anthracite coal strike that threatens a cold winter in the Northeast.
November 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Nov. 9, 1925: Edith Rogers, a newly elected member of the House, calls on President Coolidge at the White House. She urges the president, a fellow Massachusetts Republican, to try to set up arbitration in the anthracite coal strike that threatens a cold winter in the Northeast.
Nov. 9, 1925: A construction crew for a new housing subdivision in Los Angeles unearths an old Indian burial ground. John Comstock, director of the Southwest Museum, holds a mortar that was found at the site.
November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Nov. 9, 1925: A construction crew for a new housing subdivision in Los Angeles unearths an old Indian burial ground. John Comstock, director of the Southwest Museum, holds a mortar that was found at the site.