1925

1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar).

Events

January-May

January 3 - Benito Mussolini 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
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.
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 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 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-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 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.
August 14 - The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
September 3 - US dirigible Shenandoah breaks up en route to Scottfield, 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 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.^*
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'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

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 (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, member of the Swiss Federal Council
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 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 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 22 - George Cole, British actor
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, 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 9 - David A. Huffman, Creator of Huffman coding (d. 1999)
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 15 - Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist
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 Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1996)
September 16 - Charles Haughey, Taoiseach (Prime Minister of Ireland) (d. 2006)
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 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 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 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.
Godrej Sidhwa, Pakistani theologist.

Deaths

Gourt Home::Gourt :: 1925

Events

January-May

June-September

October-December

Unknown dates

Births

January-April

May-July

August-September

October-December

Unknown

Deaths

January-April

May-August

September-December

Nobel prizes