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1925 (''' MCMXXV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-May
- January 1 - Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other Galaxies .
- 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.
- April 16 - The Communist St Nedelya Church Assault claims the lives of 150 and injures 500 in the Bulgaria n capital Sofia .
- 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
- 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.
- , biology teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin 's Theory Of Evolution .
- 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".
- .
- , 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 ''.
- , high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching Evolution in class and fined $100.
- July 25 - Telegraph Agency Of The Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
- 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 14 - Yukio Mishima , Japanese writer (b. 1970 )
- 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 16 - Luis E. Miramontes , Mexican chemist (d. 2004 )
- March 23 - David Watkin , British cinematographer
- March 25 - Flannery O'Connor , American writer (d. 1964 )
- March 26 - Pierre Boulez , French composer
- April 14 - Gene Ammons , American jazz saxophonist (d. 1974 )
- April 14 - Rod Steiger , American actor (d. 2002 )
- April 20 - Ernie Stautner , German-born American football player (d. 2006 )
- April 22 - George Cole , British actor
- April 24 - Eugen Weber , Romanian-born historian
- April 25 - Kay E. Kuter , American actor (d. 2003 )
May-July
- May 2 - Yogi Berra , baseball player
- May 4 - Maurice R. Greenberg , American businessman
- May 5 - Charles Chaplin Jr. , American actor (d. 1968 )
- May 19 - Pol Pot , Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader (d. 1998 )
- May 19 - Malcolm X , American civil rights activist (d. 1965 )
- May 22 - James King , American tenor (d. 2005 )
- May 23 - Joshua Lederberg , American molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- May 25 - Jeanne Crain , American actress (d. 2003 )
- June 3 - Tony Curtis , American actor
- June 8 - Barbara Bush , First Lady Of The United States
- June 14 - Pierre Salinger , John F. Kennedy 's White House Press Secretary (d. 2004 )
- June 21 - Maureen Stapleton , American actress (d. 2006 )
- July 1 - Farley Granger , American actor
- July 6 - Merv Griffin , American game show developer and host
- July 6 - Bill Haley , American musician ( Bill Haley And The Comets ) (d. 1981 )
- July 10 - Mahathir Bin Mohamad , fourth Prime Minister of Maylasia
- July 28 - Baruch S. Blumberg , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
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 24 - Al Feldstein , American artist and comic book creator
- October 27 - Albert Medwin , American inventor
- October 31 - John Anthony Pople , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004 )
- November 11 - Jonathan Winters , American actor and comedian
- 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 journalist, 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 1 - Martin Rodbell , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1998 )
- 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 11 - Paul Greengard , American neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- December 13 - Dick Van Dyke , American actor
- December 14 - Gloria Malgarini , American actress
- December 19 - Robert B. Sherman , American songwriter
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 4 - Moritz Moszkowski , Polish/German composer (b. 1854 )
- 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 - King Vajiravudh 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 )
- Unknown date: Charles Mangin , French general (b. 1866 )
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