1925 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1925?
- January 21, 1925 – Albania declares itself a republic.
- January 24, 1925 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Ox in Chinese astrology.
- January 30, 1925 – The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
- February 2, 1925 – The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
- February 21, 1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
- 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 & Company for $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 5, 1925 – The government of South Africa declares Afrikaans an official language
- May 30, 1925 – May 30 Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shot 13 protesting workers to death.
- June 10, 1925 – Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
- June 16, 1925 – The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
- July 10, 1925 – 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 the Butler Act.
- August 9, 1925 – A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India
- October 14, 1925 – An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.)
- October 30, 1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain’s first television transmitter.
- 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.
- December 11, 1925 – Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas Primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.
- December 12, 1925 – The Majlis of Iran votes to crown Reza Khan as the new Shah of Persia.
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