1925

**1925 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1925; MCMXXV
Ab urbe condita	2678
Armenian calendar	1374; ԹՎ ՌՅՀԴ
Bahá'í calendar	81 – 82
Berber calendar	2875
Buddhist calendar	2469
Burmese calendar	1287
Byzantine calendar	7433 – 7434
Chinese calendar	甲子年十二月初七日; (4561/4621-12-7) — to — 乙丑年十一月十六日; (4562/4622-11-16)
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)
Korean calendar	4258
Thai solar calendar	2468
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Paris Montmartre in 1925

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

Contents:
Events of 1925 - Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April - May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug. - Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec. - Undated ^. Ongoing Births Deaths Nobel prizes Ship events See also - Notes - External links

[edit] Events of 1925

[edit] 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.

Jan.27: serum run.

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-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 15 - Phi Lambda Chi fraternity was founded, with their original name "The Aztecs" on the campus of Arkansas State Teacher's College in Conway, Arkansas, now known as the University of Central Arkansas.
March 18 - The Tri-State Tornado rampages through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana and kills 695 people and injures 2027. It hits 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 publishes 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 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 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 14 - Turkish football club Göztepe is founded.
June 29 - Santa Barbara Earthquake of 1925: a 6.3 earthquake destroys downtown Santa Barbara, California.

[edit] July-October

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 3 - US dirigible Shenandoah breaks up en route to Scottfield, St. Louis - 14 crewmen dead.
September 9- Warren Harding High School opens in Bridgeport, CT
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-December

November 6 - Secret agent Sidney Reilly executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
November 24 - Hussar of the Dead was released in Santiago de Chile.
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.

[edit] Undated

Queensland, an Australian state, 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, (Brisbane, Australia), is created from the amalgamation of 20 smaller cities, towns and shires.

[edit] Births

[edit] January

January 2 - Larry Harmon, American entertainer and TV producer, Bozo the Clown (d. 2008)
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 (d. 2008)
January 30 - Dorothy Malone, American actress

[edit] February-March

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 25 - Shehu Shagari, President of Nigeria
February 27 - Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (d. 2004)
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

[edit] April-May

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 2 - Yogi Berra, baseball player
May 4 - Maurice R. Greenberg, American businessman
May 5 - Charles Chaplin Jr., American actor (d. 1968)
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)

[edit] June-July

June 1 - Dilia Díaz Cisneros, Venezuelan teacher
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 1 - Farley Granger, American actor
July 2 - Medgar Evers , African american civil rights activist
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)

[edit] August

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 (d. 2007, Canadian jazz pianist
- Bill Pinkney, American performer and singer (b. 2007)
August 16
- Kirke Mechem, American composer (b. 1925)
August 21 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003)
August 22 - Honor Blackman, English actress
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

[edit] September

September 3 - Shoista Mullojonova, Shashmakom singer
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

[edit] October

October 11 - Elmore Leonard, American novelist
October 13 -
- Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Lenny Bruce, American comedian. (d. 1966)
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)

[edit] 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 (d. 2008)
- 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.

[edit] Deaths

[edit] 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

[edit] Ship events

List of ship launches in 1925

[edit] Notes

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Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years:	1922 1923 1924 - 1925 - 1926 1927 1928

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[edit] Events of 1925

[edit] January-February

[edit] March-April

[edit] May

[edit] June

[edit] July-October

[edit] November-December

[edit] Undated

[edit] Births

[edit] January

[edit] February-March

[edit] April-May

[edit] June-July

[edit] August

[edit] September

[edit] October

[edit] November-December

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January - February

[edit] March-April

[edit] May-June

[edit] July - December

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Gregorian calendar	1925 MCMXXV
Ab urbe condita	2678
Armenian calendar	1374 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԴ
Bahá'í calendar	81 – 82
Berber calendar	2875
Buddhist calendar	2469
Burmese calendar	1287
Byzantine calendar	7433 – 7434
Chinese calendar	甲子年十二月初七日 (4561/4621-12-7) — to — 乙丑年十一月十六日 (4562/4622-11-16)
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)
Korean calendar	4258
Thai solar calendar	2468
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