1925

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Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents (full)

1 Events of 1925

- Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

- May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug.

- Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec.

- Undated ^. Ongoing ^. Fictional

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Nobel prizes - Ship events

5 See also - Notes - External links

[edit] Events of 1925

[edit] January

Jan.27: serum run.

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.

Jan.3

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.

[edit] February

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.

[edit] March

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 raked through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana and killed 695 people.
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.

[edit] April

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.

[edit] May

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.

[edit] June

June 1 - Percy and Florence Arrowsmith were married. Celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary June 1, 2005 - Percy is now 105, and wife Florence is 100. Guinness Book of Records said the pair held records for the longest marriage for a living couple and the oldest 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.

[edit] July

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.
July 10 - 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.

[edit] August

August 14 - The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
August 25 - French Evacuation of the Ruhr region of Germany.

[edit] September

September 3 - US dirigible Shenandoah breaks up en route to Scottfield, St. Louis - 14 crewmen dead.

[edit] October

October - Major money forgery and fraud of Alves Reis exposed in Portugal.
October 30 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

[edit] November

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).

[edit] December

December 16 - Colombo Radio broadcasting was launched in Ceylon the station subsequently known as Radio Ceylon.
December 26 - The Sphinx was finally dug out in 1925, to the great pleasure of its numerous visitors.

[edit] Undated

Queensland introduces a 44 hour week.
New York City becomes the largest city of 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.

[edit] Ongoing

(none)

[edit] Fictional

The following are references to year 1925 in fiction: (unknown).

[edit] Births

**1925 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1925 MCMXXV
Ab urbe condita	2678
Armenian calendar	1374 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԴ
Bahá'í calendar	81 – 82
Buddhist calendar	2469
Chinese calendar	4561/4621-12-7 (甲子年十二月初七日) — to — 4562/4622-11-16 (乙丑年十一月十六日)
Coptic calendar	1641 – 1642
Ethiopian calendar	1917 – 1918
Hebrew calendar	5685 – 5686
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1980 – 1981
- Shaka Samvat	1847 – 1848
- Kali Yuga	5026 – 5027
Holocene calendar	11925
Iranian calendar	1303 – 1304
Islamic calendar	1343 – 1344
Japanese calendar	Taishō 14 (大正14年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2585 (皇紀2585年)
- Jōmon Era	11925
Julian calendar	1970
Korean calendar	4258
Thai solar calendar	2468
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