List of 1925 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1925
Date | Event |
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January 5, 1925 | Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States. |
January 21, 1925 | Albania declares itself a republic. |
January 30, 1925 | The Government of Turkey expels Patriarch Constantine VI from Istanbul. |
February 2, 1925 | Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race. |
February 15, 1925 | The 1925 serum run to Nome: The second delivery of serum arrives in Nome, Alaska. |
February 21, 1925 | The New Yorker publishes its first issue. |
February 28, 1925 | The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America. |
March 18, 1925 | The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people. |
March 21, 1925 | The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee. |
March 21, 1925 | Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. |
April 4, 1925 | The Schutzstaffel (SS) is founded under Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party in Germany. |
April 10, 1925 | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons. |
April 16, 1925 | During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded. |
April 26, 1925 | Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic. |
April 30, 1925 | Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146 million plus $50 million for charity. |
May 1, 1925 | The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134 million members. |
May 16, 1925 | The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria occurred in Paris. |
May 25, 1925 | Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching human evolution in Tennessee. |
May 30, 1925 | May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers. |
June 6, 1925 | The original Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter Chrysler from the remains of the Maxwell Motor Company. |
June 16, 1925 | Artek, the most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, is established. |
July 10, 1925 | Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. |
July 18, 1925 | Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf. |
July 21, 1925 | Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching human evolution in class and fined $100. |
July 21, 1925 | 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). |
July 25, 1925 | Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established. |
August 5, 1925 | Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out. |
August 9, 1925 | A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India, by the Indian independence revolutionaries, against British government. |
September 3, 1925 | USS Shenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne. |
September 8, 1925 | Rif War: Spanish forces including troops from the Foreign Legion under Colonel Francisco Franco landing at Al Hoceima, Morocco. |
October 4, 1925 | Great Syrian Revolt: Rebels led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji captured Hama from the French Mandate of Syria. |
October 4, 1925 | S2, a Finnish Sokol class torpedo boat, sinks during a fierce storm near the coast of Pori in the Gulf of Bothnia, taking with it the whole crew of 53. |
November 5, 1925 | Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union. |
November 28, 1925 | The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance. |
December 11, 1925 | Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King. |