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'''1925''' ('''
Roman numerals MCMXXV''') was a
common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
{{Year D}}
January-May
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January 1 -
Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other
galaxy galaxies.
*
January 3 -
Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over
Italy.
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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
Alaska Territory U.S. territory of Alaska to combat an
epidemic
*
February 21 - ''
The New Yorker'' publishes its first issue.
*
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 31 -
WOWO radio station in
Ft. Wayne, Indiana begins broadcasting.
*
May 5 -
Scopes Trial:
Dayton, Tennessee, biology teacher
John Scopes is arrested for teaching
Charles Darwin's
Theory of Evolution.
*
May 25 -
Scopes Trial:
John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching
Charles Darwin 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 River Amazon.
June-September
*
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 Bureau of Standards, the
United States Navy 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 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 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.
*
September 3 - US dirigible ''Shenandoah'' breaks up en route to
Scottfield,
St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis - 14 crewmen dead.
October-December
* October - Major money forgery and fraud of
Alves Reis exposed in
Portugal.
*
October 30 -
John Logie Baird creates
United Kingdom Britain's first
television transmitter.
*
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 -
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.
Unknown dates
*
New York City becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from
London.[http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm]
*
Thompson submachine gun sells for $175 in the
Sears mail order catalog.
*
Vladimir Zworykin takes out the first patent for colour television.
* Introduction of
London 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.
Births
January-April
*
January 6 -
John De Lorean, American car maker (d.
2005)
*
January 7 -
Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (d.
1995)
*
January 11 -
Grant Tinker, American television executive
*
January 14 -
Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (b.
1970)
*
January 25 -
Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (d.
1995)
*
January 26 -
Paul Newman, American actor
*
January 30 -
Dorothy Malone, American actress
*
February 8 -
Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (d.
2001)
*
February 17 -
Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (d.
2003)
*
February 17 -
Hal Holbrook, American actor
*
February 18 -
George Kennedy, American actor
*
February 20 -
Robert Altman, American film director
*
February 21 -
Sam Peckinpah, American director (d.
1984)
*
February 27 -
Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (d.
2004)
*
March 12 -
Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics 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
*
March 26 -
Pierre Boulez, French composer
*
April 14 -
Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (d.
1974)
*
April 14 -
Rod Steiger, American actor (d.
2002)
*
April 20 -
Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (d.
2006)
*
April 24 -
Eugen Weber, Romanian-born historian
*
April 25 -
Kay E. Kuter, American actor (d.
2003)
May-July
*
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 (tenor) 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)
*
June 3 -
Tony Curtis, American actor
*
June 8 -
Barbara Bush,
First Lady of the United States
*
June 14 -
Pierre Salinger,
John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary (d.
2004)
*
June 21 -
Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d.
2006)
*
July 1 -
Farley Granger, American actor
*
July 6 -
Merv Griffin, American game show developer and host
*July 6 -
Bill Haley, American musician (
Bill Haley and the Comets) (d.
1981)
*
July 10 -
Mahathir bin Mohamad, fourth Prime Minister of Maylasia
*
July 28 -
Baruch S. Blumberg, American scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
August-September
*
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 12 -
Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the ''Guinness Book of Records'' (d.
2004)
*
August 12 -
Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the ''Guinness Book of Records'' (d.
1975)
*
August 21 -
Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d.
2003)
*
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 8 -
Peter Sellers, English comedian and actor (d.
1980)
*
September 10 -
Boris Tchaikovsky Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d.
1996)
*
September 24 -
Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d.
2004)
*
September 28 -
Arnold Stang, American actor
October-December
*
October 13 -
Margaret Thatcher,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
*
October 16 -
Angela Lansbury, American actress
*
October 23 -
Johnny Carson, American comedian and television host (d.
2005)
*
October 24 -
Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d.
2003)
*
October 24 -
Al Feldstein, American artist and comic book creator
*
October 27 -
Albert Medwin, American inventor
*
October 31 -
John Anthony Pople, English chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2004)
*
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
*
November 24 -
Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate
*
November 26 -
Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d.
2003)
*
November 27 -
John Maddox, Welsh science writer
*
December 1 -
Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1998)
*
December 3 -
Kim Daejung,
President of South Korea, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
*
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 13 -
Dick Van Dyke, American actor
*
December 14 -
Gloria Malgarini, American actress
*
December 19 -
Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter
Unknown
*
William H. Gates, Sr., American attorney, father of
Bill Gates
*
Gildo Massó, Puerto Rican housebuilder.
Deaths
*
January 4 -
Nellie Cashman, Irish-born actress (b.
1845)
*
January 8 -
George Bellows, American artist (b.
1882)
*
January 14 -
Camille Decoppet, Swiss Federal Councilor (b.
1852)
*
January 31 -
George Washington Cable, American writer (b.
1844)
*
February 2 -
Jaap Eden, Dutch speed skater (b.
1873)
*
February 3 -
Oliver Heaviside, English mathematician (b.
1850)
*
February 4 -
Robert Koldewey, German architect and archaeologist (b.
1855)
*
February 10 -
Aristide Bruant, French singer and nightclub owner (b.
1851)
*
February 18 -
James Lane Allen, American writer (b.
1849)
*
February 24 -
Hjalmar Branting,
Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1860)
*
February 25 -
Louis Feuillade, French silent film director (b.
1873)
*
February 28 -
Friedrich Ebert,
Chancellor of Germany (b.
1871)
*
March 2 -
Luigj Gurakuqi, Albanian freedom fighter (assassinated) (b.
1879)
*
March 4 -
Monte Ward John Ward, baseball player (b.
1860)
*
March 4 -
Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (b.
1854)
*
March 7 -
Georgy Evgenyevich Lvov,
Prime Minister of Russia (b.
1861)
*
March 12 -
Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary (b.
1866)
*
March 14 -
Walter Camp, American football coach (b.
1859)
*
March 20 -
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India (b.
1859)
*
March 25 -
Tikhon of Moscow, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (b.
1865)
*
March 28 -
Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, British general (b.
1864)
*
April 14 -
John Singer Sargent, American artist (b.
1856)
*
April 15 -
Fritz Haarmann, German serial killer (b.
1879)
*
April 19 -
John Walter Smith, American politician (b.
1845)
*
April 22 -
André Caplet, French composer and conductor (b.
1878)
*
April 23 -
Rupert Brooke, English poet (b.
1887)
*
May 2 -
Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (b.
1848)
*
May 2 -
Antun Branko Simic, Croatian poet (b.
1898)
*
May 10 -
William Massey,
Prime Minister of New Zealand (b.
1856)
*
May 12 -
Amy Lowell, American poet (b.
1874)
*
May 14 -
H. Rider Haggard, English writer (b.
1856)
*
May 20 -
Elias M. Ammons, Governor of Colorado (b.
1860)
*
May 22 -
John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, British World War I field marshal (b.
1852)
*
June 1 -
Thomas R. Marshall,
Vice President of the United States (b.
1854)
*
June 2 -
James Ellsworth, American mine owner and banker (b.
1849)
*
June 16 -
Emmett Hardy, American jazz cornetist (b.
1903)
*
June 18 -
Robert M. La Follette, Sr., American politician (b.
1855)
*
June 29 -
Christian Michelsen,
Prime Minister of Norway (b.
1857)
*
July 1 -
Erik Satie, French composer (b.
1866)
*
July 26 -
Antonio Ascari, Italian race car driver (b.
1888)
*
July 26 -
William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician (b.
1860)
*
July 26 -
Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (b.
1848)
*
August 17 -
Ioan Slavici, Romanian writer (b.
1848)
*
August 25 -
Franz Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian field marshal (b.
1852)
*
September 7 -
René Viviani,
Prime Minister of France (b.
1863)
*
September 16 -
Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian mathematician (b.
1888)
*
September 29 -
Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1851)
*
October 7 -
Christy Mathewson, baseball player (b.
1880)
*
October 31 -
Mikhail Frunze, Russian Bolshevik leader (b.
1885)
*
October 31 -
Max Linder, French silent film actor (b.
1883)
*
November 20 -
Alexandra of Denmark, queen of
Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b.
1844)
*
November 25 - King
Vajiravudh of
King of Siam Siam (b.
1880)
*
December 5 -
Wladyslaw Reymont, Polish writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1867)
*
December 9 -
Pablo Iglesias, co-founder of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (b.
1850)
*
December 15 -
Battling Siki, Senegalese boxer (b.
1897)
*
December 19 -
Jose Ignacio Quinton, Puerto Rican composer and pianist (b.
1881)
*
December 21 -
Jules Méline,
Prime Minister of France (b.
1838)
*
December 22 -
Alice Heine, American wife of
Albert I, Prince of Monaco Albert I of Monaco (b.
1858)
*
December 25 -
Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b.
1877)
*
December 27 -
Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (b.
1895)
*Unknown date:
Charles Mangin, French general (b.
1866)
Nobel prizes
*
Nobel Prize for Physics Physics -
James Franck and
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
*
Nobel Prize for Chemistry Chemistry -
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
*
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine Physiology or Medicine - not awarded
*
Nobel Prize for Literature Literature -
George Bernard Shaw
*
Nobel Peace Prize Peace -
Austen Chamberlain and
Charles Gates Dawes
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