Significant Events
- Jan 3 Benito Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator
- Jul 18 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice")
- Jul 21 John T. Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution in the “Scopes monkey trial”, Dayton, Tennessee, fined $100 & costs
- Aug 8 1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, D.C.
- Dec 12 Last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rezā Shāh Pahlavi takes over
World Leaders in 1925
Calvin Coolidge
30th US President
Joseph Stalin
Soviet General Secretary
Stanley Baldwin
British Prime Minister
B.B. King
Malcolm X
Margaret Thatcher
Paul Newman
Robert F. Kennedy
Yogi BerraFamous Weddings
- Jan 26 Politician Seán MacBride (21) weds Catalina Bulfin in Dublin, Ireland
- Jan 28 Actress Gloria Swanson (25) weds aristocrat Henri de la Falaise (26) in Paris, France
- Feb 7 Heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey (29) weds actress Estelle Taylor (30)
- Apr 2 Lawyer Hans Frank (24) weds secretary Brigitte Herbst (29) in Munich, Germany
- Apr 15 Russian writer ("Lolita") Vladimir Nabokov (26) marries fellow Russian writer Vera Evseevna Slonim (23) in Berlin
Famous Divorces
- Aug 5 Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (44) divorces wife Latife Hanim after 2 years of marriage
Jaap Eden
Sun Yat-sen
William Jennings Bryan