1925

1925 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1925; MCMXXV
Ab urbe condita	2678
Armenian calendar	1374; ԹՎ ՌՅՀԴ
Assyrian calendar	6675
Bahá'í calendar	81–82
Bengali calendar	1332
Berber calendar	2875
British Regnal year	14 Geo. 5 – 15 Geo. 5
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
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- 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
Minguo calendar	ROC 14; 民國14年
Thai solar calendar	2468
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Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events

[edit] January

January 3 – Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
January 5 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor (Wyoming) in the United States. Fifteen days later, Ma Ferguson becomes first female governor of Texas.
January 27–February 1 – The 1925 serum run to Nome (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 2 – The 1925 Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
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
- İsmet İnönü is appointed as the prime minister in Turkey (Turkey's 4th and İnönü's 3rd government).
- Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio.
March 6 – Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded in the Soviet Union.
March 15 – The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity (original name "The Aztecs") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teacher's College in Conway, Arkansas (now the University of Central Arkansas).
March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history, rampages through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of 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 – Radio station WOWO in Ft. Wayne, Indiana begins broadcasting.

[edit] April

April–October – Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris, giving a name to the Art Deco style.
April 1
- Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leave Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states.
- Patent and Trademark Office transferred to the Department of Commerce.
April 3 – United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia return to the (bullion) gold standard.
April 10 – F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
April 15 – Fritz Haarmann, a serial killer convicted of the murder of 24 boys and young men, is beheaded in Germany.
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.
- The General Election Law is 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.
- The National Forensic League is founded.
May 29 – The British explorer Percy Fawcett sends a last 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 are viewed by representatives of the National Bureau of Standards, the U.S. Navy, the Commerce Department, and others. Jenkins calls this "the first public demonstration of radiovision".
June 14
- The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece is founded.
- The Turkish football club Göztepe is founded.
June 29 – Santa Barbara Earthquake of 1925: A 6.3 earthquake destroys downtown Santa Barbara, California.

[edit] July

July 9 – In Dublin, Oonagh Keogh becomes the first female member of a stock exchange in the world.
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 – The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.

[edit] August

August 8 – The Ku Klux Klan demonstrate their popularity by holding a parade in Washington DC; as many as 40,000 male and female members of the Klan march down Pennsylvania Avenue. In 1925, an estimated 5,000,000 members belong to the Ku Klux Klan, making it the largest fraternal organization in the United States.
August 14 – The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin^{[disambiguation needed ]} Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
August 25 – The French evacuate the Ruhr region of Germany.

[edit] September

September 3 – The U.S. dirigible Shenandoah breaks up near Caldwell, Ohio; 14 crewmen are killed.
September 27 – Feast of the Cross according to the Old Calendar; A celestial cross appears over Athens, Greece, while the Greek Police pursues a group of Greek Old Calendarists. The phenomenon lasts for half an hour.^[1]

[edit] October

October – The major money forgery and fraud of Alves Reis is exposed in Portugal.
October 1 – Mount Rushmore is dedicated.
October 2 – London's first enclosed double-decker buses are introduced.
October 5–16 – Locarno Treaties negotiated.
October 8 – Cubana de Aviación founded.
October 30 – John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

[edit] November

November 6 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
November 24 – The silent film Hussar of the Dead is released in Santiago de Chile.
November 26 – Prajadhipok (Rama VII) is crowned as King of Siam.
November 28 – The country-variety show "WSM Barn Dance," later re-named the Grand Ole Opry, makes its radio debut. It will go on to become the longest-running live music show.

[edit] December

December 1 – Locarno Treaties are signed in London.
December 16
- Reza Shah becomes shah of Persia.
- Alpha Phi Omega, a National service fraternity, is founded at Lafayette College.
- Colombo Radio launches in Ceylon; the station is subsequently known as Radio Ceylon.
December 25 – IG Farben formed by merger of six chemical companies in Germany.
December 26 – The Great Sphinx of Giza is unearthed at the start of a complete excavation.

Paris Rue de Montmartre in 1925

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The Australian state of Queensland introduces a 44-hour working week.
New York City becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from London.^[2]^{[unreliable source?]}
The Thompson submachine gun sells for $175 in the 1925 Sears, Roebuck and Company mail order catalog.
The National Football League adds 5 teams: the New York Giants, Detroit Panthers, Providence Steam Roller, a new Canton Bulldogs team, and the Pottsville Maroons.
First Surrealist exhibition in Paris.
In Germany, the Bauhaus moves to a building in Dessau designed by Walter Gropius.
Lion Feuchtwanger's novel Jud Süß published.^[3]
The Shueisha Publishing Company is founded in Tokyo.
The Brisbane City Council, (Brisbane, Australia), is created from the amlgamation of 20 smaller cities, towns and shires.