1925
1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-MayJanuary 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 epidemicFebruary 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 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. May 25 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. May 25 - The National Forensics League is founded.
June-September 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 enroute to Scottfield, St. Louis - 14 crewmen deadOctober-December 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).Unknown dates Thompson submachinegun 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.
Births JanuaryJanuary 6 - John De Lorean, auto maker (d. 2005)January 11 - Grant Tinker, television executiveJanuary 26 - Paul Newman, actorJanuary 30 - Dorothy Malone, actress
February-AprilFebruary 8 - Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (d. 2001)February 17 - Hal Holbrook, American actorFebruary 18 - George Kennedy, actorFebruary 20 - Robert Altman, film directorFebruary 21 - Sam Peckinpah, director (d. 1984)April 14 - Rod Steiger, actor (d. 2002)
May-SeptemberMay 12 - Yogi Berra, American Baseball Hall of FamerMay 19 - Malcolm X American civil-rights activist (d. 1965) May 19 - Pol Pot - Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)June 3 - Tony Curtis, American actorJuly 6 - Merv Griffin, game show developer, TV show hostJuly 6 - Bill Haley, rock and roll musician. (d. 1981)August 27 - Nat Lofthouse, footballer, English Footballer of the Year in 1953September 8 - Peter Sellers, comedian, actor (d. 1980)
October-DecemberOctober 13 - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United KingdomOctober 16 - Angela Lansbury, American actressOctober 23 - Johnny Carson, American comedian, television host (d. 2005)October 24 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d. 2003)November 20 - Robert Kennedy, American politician, Attorney General of the United States (d. 1968)November 24 - William F. Buckley, Jr, American author and commentatorNovember 27 - John Maddox, science writerDecember 8 - Sammy Davis Jr, American singer, dancer, musician, and actor (d. 1990)December 13 - Dick Van Dyke, American actor
UnknownWilliam H. Gates, Sr, American attorney, father of Bill Gates
DeathsJanuary 4 - Nellie Cashman, Irish-born actress (b. 1845)January 8 - George Bellows, American artist (b. 1882)January 14 - Camille Decoppet, member of the Swiss Federal Council (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 and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (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 Hall of Famer (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 World War I 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 marshall (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 general (b. 1852)September 7 - René Viviani, Prime Minister of France (b. 1863)September 16 - Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian mathematician (b. 1888)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 and 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 27 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (b. 1895)
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