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 (between 25,000 and 40,000 marchers) in Washington, D.C.
- Dec 12 Last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rezā Shāh Pahlavi takes over
1925 in Music
- Nov 11 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five record begin their first recording session
- Nov 28 Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville, Tennessee
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
Pol Pot
Robert F. KennedyFamous 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