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1925 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.
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".
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.
September 3 - US dirigible Shenandoah breaks up en route to Scottfield, St. Louis - 14 crewmen dead
October-December
Unknown dates
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 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 laureate
March 26 - Pierre Boulez , French composer
April 14 - Rod Steiger , American actor (d. 2002 )
May-July
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 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 27 - Albert Medwin , American inventor
October 31 - John Anthony Pople , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004 )
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 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 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 13 - Dick Van Dyke , American actor
Unknown
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 - John Ward , baseball player (b. 1860 )
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 - Vajiravudh , King of Siam (b. 1880 )
December 5 - Wladyslaw Reymont , Polish writer, 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 of Monaco (b. 1858 )
December 25 - Karl Abraham , German psychoanalyst (b. 1877 )
December 27 - Sergei Yesenin , Russian poet (b. 1895 )
Nobel Prizes
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