1925

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.

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 enroute to Scottfield, St. Louis - 14 crewmen dead

October-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

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 - 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)
• March 12 - Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• March 26 - Pierre Boulez, French composer
• April 14 - Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002)

May-September

• May 12 - Yogi Berra, baseball player
• May 19 - Pol Pot, Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader (d. 1998)
• May 19 - Malcolm X, American civil-rights activist (d. 1965)
• June 3 - Tony Curtis, American actor
• June 8 - Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States
• July 6 - Merv Griffin, American game show developer and host
• July 6 - Bill Haley, American musician (Bill Haley and the Comets) (d. 1981)
• August 27 - Nat Lofthouse, English footballer
• 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 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 31 - John Anthony Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
• 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 27 - John Maddox, Welsh science writer
• December 8 - Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, musician, and actor (d. 1990)
• December 13 - Dick Van Dyke, American actor

Unknown

• William H. Gates, Sr., American attorney, father of Bill Gates

Deaths

• January 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 25 - Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877)
• December 27 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (b. 1895)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - James Franck and Gustav Ludwig Hertz
• Chemistry - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
• Physiology or Medicine - not awarded
• Literature - George Bernard Shaw
• Peace - Austen Chamberlain and Charles Gates Dawes