1925

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Events of 1925

January-February

January 3 - Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
January 5 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States.
January 27–February 1 - The 1925 serum run to Nome, or the "Great Race of Mercy", relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. territory of Alaska to combat an epidemic.

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Jan.27: serum run.

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February 21: The New Yorker

February 21 - The New Yorker magazine publishes its first issue.
February 25 - Art Gillham records for Columbia Records the first Western Electric masters to be commercially released.

March-April

March 4 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcasted on radio.
March 6 - Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded
March 13 - Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
March 18 - The Tri-State Tornado rampaged through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana and killed 695 people and injured 2027. It hit the towns Murphysboro, Illinois Gorham, Illinois Ellington, Missouri and Griffin, Indiana
March 21 - Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signs the Butler Act, prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the state's public schools.
March 31 - WOWO radio station in Ft. Wayne, Indiana begins broadcasting.
April 1 - Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leave Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states.
April 10 - F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby
April 16 - The Communist St Nedelya Church assault claims the lives of 150 and injures 500 in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.

May-June

May 5 - Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee, biology teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
May 5 - General Election Law was passed in Japan.
May 8 - Tom Lee rescues 32 people from the M.E. Norman, a sinking steamboat.
May 19 - Birth of Malcolm X
May 25 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
May 25 - The National Forensics League is founded.
May 29 - Last communication from the British explorer Percy Fawcett, a telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.
June 1 - Percy and Florence Arrowsmith are married. This couple, who celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary June 1, 2005 (Percy aged 105, and wife Florence 100, are acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records as record-holders for the longest marriage for a living couple and the greatest aggregate age of a married couple.
June 6 - The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.
June 13 - Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines, and a mechanical system. A 10-minute film of a miniature windmill in motion is sent across 5 miles from Anacostia to Washington, DC. The images were viewed by representatives of the National Bureau of Standards, the U.S. Navy, the Commerce Department, and others. Jenkins called this "the first public demonstration of radiovision".
June 29 - Santa Barbara Earthquake of 1925: a 6.3 earthquake destroys downtown Santa Barbara, California.

July-August

July 10
- Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
- Meher Baba begins his 44 year silence.
July 18 - Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
July 21 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
July 25 - Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
August 14 - The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
August 25 - French evacuation of the Ruhr region of Germany.

September-October

September 3 - US dirigible Shenandoah breaks up en route to Scottfield, St. Louis - 14 crewmen dead.
October - Major money forgery and fraud of Alves Reis exposed in Portugal.
October 30 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

November-December

November 6 - Secret agent Sidney Reilly executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
November 26 - Prajadhipok (Rama VII) crowned as King of Siam.
November 28 - Country-variety show Grand Ole Opry makes its radio debut on station WSM (it would later become the longest-running live music show).
December 16 - Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity, founded at Lafayette College.
December 16 - Colombo Radio launches in Ceylon; the station is subsequently known as Radio Ceylon.
December 26 - The Great Sphinx of Giza is unearthed after restoration.

Undated

Queensland introduces a 44-hour working week.
New York City becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from London.[1]
Thompson submachine gun sells for $175 in the 1925 Sears, Roebuck and Company mail order catalog.
Vladimir Zworykin takes out the first patent for colour television.
Introduction of London's first Double-decker buses.
The Royal Tweed Bridge in Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, is completed.
The National Football League adds five teams: New York Giants, Detroit Panthers, Providence Steam Roller, a new Canton Bulldogs team, and Pottsville Maroons
The Shueisha Publishing Company is founded.
Scotch Tape is invented.
Brisbane City Council is created from the amalgamation of 20 smaller cities, towns and shires.

Births

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January-February

January 6 - John De Lorean, American car maker (d. 2005)
January 7 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (d. 1995)
January 8 - Helmuth Hubener, Youth political activist against the Hitler regime (d. 1942)
January 11 - Grant Tinker, American television executive
January 14 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970)
January 25 - Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (d. 1995)
January 26 - Paul Newman, American actor
January 30 - Dorothy Malone, American actress
February 3 - Leon Schlumpf, Swiss Federal Councillor
February 8 - Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (d. 2001)
February 11 - Kim Stanley, American actress (d. 2001)
February 17
- Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (d. 2003)
- Hal Holbrook, American actor
February 18 - George Kennedy, American actor
February 20 - Robert Altman, American film director (d. 2006)
February 21 - Sam Peckinpah, American director (d. 1984)
February 27 - Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (d. 2004)

March-April

March 4 - Paul Mauriat, French musician (d. 2006)
March 12 - Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 16 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist (d. 2004)
March 23 - David Watkin, British cinematographer
March 25 - Flannery O'Connor, American writer (d. 1964)
March 26 - Pierre Boulez, French composer
April 4 - Fariza Magomadova, Chechen teacher
April 14
- Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1974)
- Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002)
April 20 - Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (d. 2006)
April 22 - George Cole, British actor
April 24 - Eugen Weber, Romanian-born historian
April 25 - Kay E. Kuter, American actor (d. 2003)

May-June

May 2 - Yogi Berra, baseball player
May 4 - Maurice R. Greenberg, American businessman
May 5 - Charles Chaplin Jr., American actor (d. 1968)
May 10 - Sugako Hashida, Japanese writer, mainly television drama
May 19 - Pol Pot, Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader (d. 1998)
May 19 - Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
May 22 - James King, American tenor (d. 2005)
May 23 - Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
May 25 - Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003)
May 28 - Pavel Štěpán, Czech pianist (d. 1998)
June 3 - Tony Curtis, American actor
June 8 - Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States
June 11 - William Styron, American writer (d. 2006)
June 14 - Pierre Salinger, White House Press Secretary (d. 2004)
June 21 - Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)

July-August

July 1 - Farley Granger, American actor
July 6
- Merv Griffin, American game show developer and host (d. 2007)
- Bill Haley, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (d. 1981)
July 10 - Mahathir bin Mohamad, fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia
July 12 - Roger Bonham Smith, Former chairman and CEO of General Motors (d. 2007)
July 28 - Baruch S. Blumberg, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
July 29 - Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer
July 30 - Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (d. 1984)
August 3 - Dom Um Romão, Brazilian jazz drummer
August 7 - M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist
August 8 - Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (d. 2003)
August 9 - David A. Huffman, American computer scientist (d. 1999)
August 11 - Mike Douglas, American entertainer (d. 2006)
August 12
- Norris McWhirter (d. 2004) and his twin brother,
- Ross McWhirter (d. 1975), Scottish co-founders of the Guinness Book of Records
August 15
- Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist
- Bill Pinkney, American performer and singer (b. 2007)
August 21 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003)
August 25 - Thea Astley, Australian writer (d. 2004)
August 26 - Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (d. 2005)
August 27 - Nat Lofthouse, English footballer
August 28 - Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 2003)
August 30 - Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator

September-October

September 7 - Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (d. 1985)
September 8 - Peter Sellers, English comedian and actor (d. 1980)
September 10 - Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1996)
September 16
- Charles Haughey, sixth Taoiseach (head of government of the Republic of Ireland) (d. 2006)
- B. B. King, American guitarist
September 23 - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (d. 2006)
September 24 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)
September 25 - Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (d. 2007)
September 28 -
- Arnold Stang, American actor
- Cromwell Everson, South African composer
October 11 - Elmore Leonard, American novelist
October 13 - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
October 16 - Angela Lansbury, English actress
October 20
- Art Buchwald, American humorist and columnist (d. 2007)
- Gene Wood, American game show announcer (d. 2004)
October 23 - Johnny Carson, American comedian and television host (d. 2005)
October 24
- Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d. 2003)
- Al Feldstein, American artist and comic book creator
October 27 - Albert Medwin, American inventor
October 31 - John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)

November-December

November 10 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
November 11 - Jonathan Winters, American actor and comedian
November 18 - Gene Mauch, baseball manager (d. 2005)
November 20 - Robert Kennedy, American politician and Attorney General of the United States (d. 1968)
November 24
- William F. Buckley, Jr., American journalist, author, and commentator
- Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 26 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d. 2003)
November 27 - John Maddox, Welsh science writer
November 30 - William H. Gates, Sr., American attorney, father of Bill Gates
December 1 - Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1998)
December 8 - Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, musician, and actor (d. 1990)
December 11 - Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
December 12 - Vladimir Shainsky, Soviet and Russian composer
December 13 - Dick Van Dyke, American actor, singer, dancer and comedian
December 14 - Gloria Malgarini, American actress
December 19 - Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter
December 29 - Pete Dye, American golf course architect
date unknown - Godrej Sidhwa, Pakistani theologist.

Deaths

Nobel prizes

Physics - James Franck and Gustav Ludwig Hertz
Chemistry - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
Physiology or Medicine - not awarded
Literature - George Bernard Shaw
Peace - Austen Chamberlain and Charles Gates Dawes

Ship events

List of ship launches in 1925

Notes

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1925

From Includipedia, the inclusionist encyclopedia

Events of 1925

January-February

March-April

May-June

July-August

September-October

November-December

Undated

Births

January-February

March-April

May-June

July-August

September-October

November-December

Deaths

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Nobel prizes

Ship events

Notes

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