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'''1925''' '''(MCMXXV)''' was a [[common year starting on Thursday]] (link will take you to calendar).

== Events ==
{{Year D}}
===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 [[Alaska Territory|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 [[Charles Darwin|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 River|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 [[United States Navy|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.
* [[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 en route to [[Scottfield]], [[St. Louis]] - 14 crewmen dead

===October-December===
* October - Major money forgery and fraud of [[Alves Reis]] exposed in [[Portugal]]
* [[October 30]] - [[John Logie Baird]] creates [[United Kingdom|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).
* [[December 16]] - [[Colombo Radio]] broadcasting was launched in Ceylon the station subsequently known as [[Radio Ceylon]].

===Unknown dates===
* [[Thompson submachine gun]] sells for $175 in the [[Sears]] mail order catalog.
* [[Vladimir Zworykin]] takes out the first patent for colour television.
* Introduction of [[London|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]]

== 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]] - [[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 in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[March 16]] - [[Luis E. Miramontes]], Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the [[contraceptive pill]]
*[[March 23]] - [[David Watkin]], British cinematographer
*[[March 26]] - [[Pierre Boulez]], French composer
*[[April 13]] - [[Marco Marquez]], Puerto-Rican actor
*[[April 14]] - [[Gene Ammons]], American jazz saxophonist (d. [[1974]])
*[[April 14]] - [[Rod Steiger]], American actor (d. [[2002]])
*[[April 24]] - [[Eugen Weber]], Professor at UCLA and Prominent 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 (tenor)|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]])
*[[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 Tchaikovsky|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 in Chemistry|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 author and commentator. Founder of National Review Magazine
*[[November 24]] - [[Simon van der Meer]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|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, spokesperson

===Unknown===
*[[Charles Mangin]], French general (b. [[1866]])
*[[William H. Gates, Sr.]], American attorney, father of [[Bill Gates]]
*[[Gildo Massó]], Puerto Rican housebuilder.

==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]] - [[Monte Ward|John Ward]], baseball player (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 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 [[King of Siam| Siam]] (b. [[1880]])
*[[December 5]] - [[Wladyslaw Reymont]], Polish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|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==
*[[Nobel Prize for Physics|Physics]] - [[James Franck]] and [[Gustav Ludwig Hertz]]
*[[Nobel Prize for Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Richard Adolf Zsigmondy]]
*[[Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - not awarded
*[[Nobel Prize for Literature|Literature]] - [[George Bernard Shaw]]
*[[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Austen Chamberlain]] and [[Charles Gates Dawes]]

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PoC at 09:49, 17 January 2006