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next turn year 1925

events

January[edit] Main article: January 1925 January 1 Kristiania, the capital of Norway, reverts to its original name of Oslo.

January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies.[1] Historians now trace this speech to the beginning of Mussolini's dictatorship.[2]

January 5 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor (Wyoming) in the United States. Twelve days later, Ma Ferguson becomes first female governor of Texas.

January 25 – Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden because of ill health, and is replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler.

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. February[edit]

Main article: February 1925 February 15 – The Alice Comedy Alice Solves the Puzzle is released by Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, introducing Bootleg Pete (an early prototype for Pegleg Pete) for the first time.

February 21 – The cover date of the very first issue of The New Yorker.[3]

February 25 – Art Gillham records (for Columbia Records) the first Western Electric masters to be commercially released.

February 28 – The 1925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America. March[edit]

Main article: March 1925 March 4

March 9–May 1 – Pink's War: The British Royal Air Force bombards mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan.

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; West Frankfort, 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 The Bauhaus closes in Weimar and moves to a building in Dessau designed by Walter Gropius.

Radio station WOWO in Fort Wayne, Indiana begins broadcasting.

April[edit] Main article: April 1925 April–October – The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes is held in Paris, giving a name to the Art Deco style.

April 1 Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leaves Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states.

The Patent and Trademark Office is transferred to the Department of Commerce.

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.

St Nedelya Church after assault

April 16 – The Communist assault on St Nedelya Church claims roughly 150 lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.

April 19 – Colo-colo, a well-known football club of Chile, is founded in Macul, suburb of Santiago.[5]

April 20 – Iranian forces of Rezā Shāh occupies Ahvaz and arrests Sheikh Khaz'al.

May[edit] Main article: May 1925 May 1 In the Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi Arabia, the al-Baqi' mausoleums are destroyed by King Ibn Saud.

Barcelona S.C. founded in Ecuador.

The All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the world's largest trade union organisation, is founded in Guangzhou, Republic of China.

May 5 Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee, biology teacher John T. Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

The General Election Law is passed in Japan.

May 8 – African American Tom Lee rescues 32 people from the sinking steamboat M.E. Norman on the Mississippi River.

May 25 Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.

The National Forensic League is founded.

May 29 – British explorer Percy Fawcett sends a last telegram to his wife before he disappears in the Amazon.

June[edit] Main article: June 1925 June 1 – Percy and Florence Arrowsmith are married.

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 in "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 – The 6.8 Mw  Santa Barbara earthquake affects the central coast of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), destroying much of downtown Santa Barbara, California and leaving 13 people dead.

July[edit] Main article: July 1925 July 9 – In Dublin, Ireland, 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 Volume 1 of his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.

July 21

Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph (241 km/h) on land. At Pendine Sands in Wales, he drives Sunbeam 350HP built by Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h).[7]

Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.

August[edit] Main article: August 1925

August 1 – The New Cape Central Railway between Worcester and Voorbaai is incorporated into the South African Railways.[8]

August 8 – The Ku Klux Klan, the largest fraternal organization in the United States, demonstrates its popularity by holding a parade with an estimated 30,000-35,000 marchers in Washington DC.[9]

August 14 – The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.

August 31 – Anthropologist Margaret Mead lands in American Samoa to begin nine-months of field work that will culminate in her 1928 book Coming of Age in Samoa. The bestselling book will become the first popular anthropological study and will change many attitudes towards tribal peoples.

September[edit] Main article: September 1925 September 3 – The U.S. Navy dirigible Shenandoah breaks up in a squall line near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14 crewmen.

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.[11]

October[edit] Main article: October 1925 October – The major money forgery and fraud of Alves dos Reis is exposed in Portugal.

October 1 – Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated in South Dakota.

Locarno Treaties with Gustav Stresemann, Austen Chamberlain and Aristide Briand October 2 – In London John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image.[12]

The city's first enclosed double-decker buses are introduced.

October 5–16 – The Locarno Treaties are negotiated.

October 8 – Cubana de Aviación is founded.

November[edit] Main article: November 1925

November 9 – Formal foundation date of the Schutzstaffel (SS) as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in danubia.

November 14 1925 Australian federal election: Stanley Bruce's Nationalist/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by Matthew Charlton.

The first Surrealist art exhibition opens in Paris.[13]

November 24 – The silent film El Húsar de la Muerte is released in Santiago, Chile.

November 26 – Prajadhipok (Rama VII) is crowned as King of Siam.

November 28 – The weekly country music-variety radio program Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "WSM Barn Dance".

December[edit] Main article: December 1925 December 1 – The Locarno Treaties are signed in London.

December 11 – Pope Pius XI's encyclical Quas primas, on the Feast of Christ the King, is promulgated.[14]

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 subsequently becomes known as Radio Ceylon.

December 25 – IG Farben is formed by the merger of six chemical companies in Germany.

Paris Rue de Montmartre in 1925 December 26 – Communist party of India was founded at Kanpur, India