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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 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 foundedMarch 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 coupleJune 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
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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 executiveJanuary 25 - Gilles Deleuze , French philosopher (d. 1995 )January 26 - Paul Newman , American actorJanuary 30 - Dorothy Malone , American actressFebruary 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 actorFebruary 20 - Robert Altman , American film directorFebruary 21 - Sam Peckinpah , American director (d. 1984 )February 27 - Samuel Dash , American Congressional counsel (d. 2004 )March 12 - Leo Esaki , Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureateMarch 26 - Pierre Boulez , French composerApril 14 - Rod Steiger , American actor (d. 2002 )
May-July
August-September
August 3 - Dom Um Romão , Brazilian jazz drummerAugust 7 - M. S. Swaminathan , Indian scientistAugust 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 footballerAugust 28 - Donald O'Connor , American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 2003 )August 30 - Laurent de Brunhoff , French writer and illustratorSeptember 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 actressOctober 23 - Johnny Carson , American comedian and television host (d. 2005 )October 24 - Luciano Berio , Italian composer (d. 2003 )October 27 - Albert Medwin , American inventorOctober 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 commentatorNovember 24 - Simon van der Meer , Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 26 - Eugene Istomin , American pianist (d. 2003 )November 27 - John Maddox , Welsh science writerDecember 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
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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 )
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