1925 - What happened in 1925 ?

January 1925

Saturday 03:

Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.

Monday 05:

Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States.

Wednesday 21:

Albania declares itself a republic.

Friday 30:

Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.

February 1925

Monday 02:

Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.

Saturday 21:

The New Yorker publishes its first issue.

Tuesday 24:

A thermite (magnesium) bomb is used for the first time to break up a 250,000-ton ice jam clogging the St. Lawrence River near Waddington, New York.

Wednesday 25:

Glacier Bay National Monument is established in Alaska.

March 1925

Friday 06:

Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded

Friday 13:

Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.

Wednesday 18:

The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.

April 1925

Sunday 26:

Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected Reichspräsident, the head of state of the Weimar Republic.

Thursday 30:

Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for USD $146 million plus $50 million for charity.

May 1925

Tuesday 05:

Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee, biology teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

Monday 25:

The National Forensics League of the U.S. is founded.

June 1925

Monday 01:

Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees plays the first game in his record streak of 2,130 consecutive games, an endurance record in major league baseball that stands till Cal Ripken, Jr. broke it in 1995.

Tuesday 02:

Wally Pipp, first baseman of the New York Yankees, asks for a day off due to a headache. He is replaced in the lineup by Lou Gehrig, who also starts the next 2,128 consecutive games.

Saturday 06:

The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.

Wednesday 10:

Inagural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches held in Toronto arena

Tuesday 16:

The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek established.

July 1925

Friday 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.

Saturday 18:

Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.

Monday 20:

In Cleveland, Tennessee, Clarence Darrow questions William Jennings Bryan in the Scopes Monkey Trial during a session held out of doors about the literal truth of the Bible.

Tuesday 21:

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

October 1925

Sunday 18:

The Grand Ole Opry opens.

Friday 30:

John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

November 1925

Saturday 28:

Country-variety show Grand Ole Opry makes its radio debut on station WSM.

December 1925

Tuesday 01:

The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establshing post-war territorial settlements.

Thursday 03:

George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F is premiered at Carnegie Hall.

Saturday 12:

Reza Pahlavi takes control of Iran as Shah

Saturday 26:

Turkey adopts Gregorian Calendar