1925

Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

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Events of 1925

January 3 - Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) 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 magazine publishes its first issue.
February 25 - Art Gillham records for Columbia Records the first Western Electric masters to be commercially released.

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 15 - Phi Lambda Chi fraternity was founded, with their original name "The Aztecs" on the campus of Arkansas State Teacher's College in Conway, Arkansas, now known as the University of Central Arkansas.
March 18 - The Tri-State Tornado rampages through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana and kills 695 people and injures 2027. It hits the towns Murphysboro, 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 - WOWO radio station in Ft. Wayne, Indiana begins broadcasting.
April 1 - Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leave Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states.
April 10 - F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
April 16 - The Communist St Nedelya Church assault claims the lives of 150 and injures 500 in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.

May 5 - Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee, biology teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
May 5 - General Election Law was passed in Japan.
May 8 - Tom Lee rescues 32 people from the M.E. Norman, a sinking steamboat.
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 1 - Percy and Florence Arrowsmith are married. This couple, who celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary June 1, 2005 (Percy aged 105, and wife Florence 100), are acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records as record-holders for the longest marriage for a living couple and the greatest 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 National Bureau of Standards, the U.S. Navy, the Commerce Department, and others. Jenkins called this "the first public demonstration of radiovision".
June 29 - Santa Barbara Earthquake of 1925: a 6.3 earthquake destroys downtown Santa Barbara, California.

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 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.
July 25 - Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
August 14 - The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
August 25 - French evacuation of the Ruhr region of Germany.

September 3 - US dirigible Shenandoah breaks up en route to Scottfield, St. Louis - 14 crewmen dead.
October - Major money forgery and fraud of Alves Reis exposed in Portugal.
October 30 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

November 6 - Secret agent Sidney Reilly executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
November 24 - Hussar of the Dead was released in Santiago de Chile.
November 26 - Prajadhipok (Rama VII) crowned as King of Siam.
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).
December 16 - Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity, founded at Lafayette College.
December 16 - Colombo Radio launches in Ceylon; the station is subsequently known as Radio Ceylon.
December 26 - The Great Sphinx of Giza is unearthed after restoration.

Queensland, an Australian state, introduces a 44-hour working week.
New York City becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from London.[1]
Thompson submachine gun sells for $175 in the 1925 Sears, Roebuck and Company 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.
The National Football League adds five teams: New York Giants, Detroit Panthers, Providence Steam Roller, a new Canton Bulldogs team, and Pottsville Maroons
The Shueisha Publishing Company is founded.
Scotch Tape is invented.
Brisbane City Council, (Brisbane,Australia), is created from the amalgamation of 20 smaller cities, towns and shires.