1925 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1925?
- January 3, 1925 – Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
- 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 24, 1925 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Ox in Chinese astrology.
- February 2, 1925 – Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
- March 9, 1925 – Pink’s War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
- March 18, 1925 – The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
- 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 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, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
- April 30, 1925 – Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity.
- May 14, 1925 – Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
- May 25, 1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
- June 10, 1925 – Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
- July 21, 1925 – Sir Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to break the 150 mph land barrier at Pendine Sands in Wales. He drove a Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph.
- September 3, 1925 – USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), 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.
- 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 WSM Barn Dance.
- December 12, 1925 – The Majlis of Iran votes to crown Reza Khan as the new Shah of Persia.
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