Historical Events in 1925

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• Jan 1 11th Rose Bowl: Notre Dame beats Stanford, 27-10

• Jan 1 Norway's capital Christiania changes name to Oslo
• Jan 2 Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR)

• Jan 4 French psychologist Emil Coué brings his self-esteem therapy to US "Every day in every way I am getting better & better"
• Jan 5 England cricket openers Herbert Sutcliffe (176) and Jack Hobbs (154) display heroics in their 1st innings but the tourists sink to an 81 run defeat in the 2nd Test against Australia in Melbourne; Sutcliffe also adds 127 in the England 2nd innings
• Jan 5 French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, & Hugh Jennings
• Jan 5 James Gleason & Richard Tabers "Is zat so?" premieres in NYC
• Jan 5 Nellie Tayloe Ross sworn in as Governor of Wyoming, 1st woman governor in USA
• Jan 5 Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdańsk post office

• Jan 6 Mussolini forms a cabinet composed entirely of Fascists in Italy

• Jan 8 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas
• Jan 8 England cricket opening batsman Herbert Sutcliffe follows his 1st innings 176 with 127 in the 2nd innings but his team cannot avoid an 81 run defeat to Australia in the 2nd Test in Melbourne
• Jan 9 German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption
• Jan 10 Allies refuse to evacuate the Cologne area of Germany as agreed
• Jan 10 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Governor of Texasr, 2nd US woman governor, 1st ever elected

• Jan 12 John Howard Lawson's "Processional" premieres in NYC
• Jan 14 Alban Berg's atonale opera "Wozzeck" premieres in Berlin
• Jan 15 Hans Luther forms German government, with DNVP
• Jan 19 -48°F (-44°C), Van Buren, Maine (state record)
• Jan 20 The Soviet and Japan sign a convention resuming relations: Russia agrees to limit revolutionary activity of the Third Communist International, while Japan agrees to leave the Sakhalin
• Jan 21 Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe president
• Jan 22 Albania Republic proclaimed under President Achmed Zogu
• Jan 24 Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island
• Jan 24 Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden
• Jan 28 -46°F (-43°C), Pittsburgh, New Hampshire (state record)

• Jan 30 Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople

• Jan 31 Australasian Championships Women's Tennis, Sydney: Daphne Akhurst wins 1st of 5 home titles; beats fellow Australian Esna Boyd 1-6, 8-6, 6-4
• Jan 31 Premier Ahmed Zogu becomes president of Angola
• Feb 1 1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkämpferbund in Berlin
• Feb 2 Belgian episcopacy rejects liberalism, communism & socialism
• Feb 2 Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km
• Feb 2 NL holds Golden Jubilee Year meeting at same hotel where NL began

• Feb 9 Haifa Technion (Israel) opens
• Feb 10 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Indiana
• Feb 10 AL decides to alternate leagues for game 1 of World Series each year
• Feb 12 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress
• Feb 12 E. Thieffry departs with Handley Page for the Belgian Congo
• Feb 12 Estonia passes Law on Cultural Self-Government for National Minorities, allowing a unique degree of autonomy to ethnic and religious groups of 3,000 or more
• Feb 13 US Congress makes Supreme Court appeals more difficult
• Feb 14 State of emergency crisis in Bavaria ends, NSDAP re-allowed
• Feb 16 Rescuers finally reach the body of caver Floyd Collins too late, 18 days after he became trapped in Sand Cave, Kentucky, bringing a tragic end to a story that had captured the nation [1]
• Feb 21 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published
• Feb 21 Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg
• Feb 24 Thermite explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington, NY
• Feb 25 Diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union established
• Feb 25 Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska

• Feb 25 US Women's Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
• Feb 26 Jihad against Turkish government

• Feb 27 Test Cricket debut of Clarrie Grimmett, who took 5-45 & 6-37 v England
• Feb 28 "Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hits #1
• Feb 28 Congress authorizes a special handling stamp
• Feb 28 Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games)
• Feb 28 Theater Museum of Amsterdam forms
• Mar 2 Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament
• Mar 2 Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage
• Mar 2 Nationwide road numbering system & US shield marker adopted
• Mar 2 SDAP-Second-Faction of parliament demands drastic disarmament
• Mar 4 Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by US
• Mar 4 US President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
• Mar 6 Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmö dy & Sankt Vith
• Mar 7 American Negro Congress organizes
• Mar 9 Pink's War, the first RAF operation conducted independently of the Army or Navy, begins

• Mar 13 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games
• Mar 13 Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution
• Mar 18 Great Tri-State Tornado: Monstrous F5 (over 300MPH) tornado roars 219 miles across southeast Missouri, southern Illinois, and southwest Indiana; kills 695, injures over 2000, and destroys 15,000 homes [1] [2]

• Mar 21 Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens
• Mar 21 Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijri calendar
• Mar 21 Tennessee governor Austin Peay passes the "Butler Act," making Tennessee the 1st state to outlaw teaching the theory of evolution (repealed 1967)
• Mar 24 KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions
• Mar 27 84th Grand National: Major John Wilson wins aboard 100/9 shot Double Chance; first year a tape, known then as a 'gate', used at the start line
• Mar 30 Stanley Cup Final, Patrick Arena, Victoria, BC: Victoria Cougars (WCHL) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 6-1 for a 3-1 series win; last non-NHL team to win trophy
• Mar 31 WOWO-AM, Ft Wayne Indiana begins radio transmission (500 watts)
• Apr 1 1st transmission of Danish state radio
• Apr 1 Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated [see May 9, 1925]
• Apr 3 Great Britain goes back to gold standard
• Apr 3 Netherlands & Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde
• Apr 5 Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election

• Apr 6 1st film shown on an airplane (British Air)
• Apr 9 Babe Ruth rushed to hospital

• Apr 10 Tsaritsyn renamed Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
• Apr 11 Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco
• Apr 13 Virginia Theater (ANTA, Guild) opens at 245 W 52nd St NYC
• Apr 14 First regular-season Chicago Cubs game broadcast on radio (WGN) by caller Quin Ryan; Cubs beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 8-2
• Apr 15 NHL's NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1
• Apr 16 During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 wounded
• Apr 17 NY Yankee Babe Ruth has ulcer surgery
• Apr 17 Paul Painlevé succeeds Edouard Herriot as French premier
• Apr 18 World's Fair opens in Chicago
• Apr 20 29th Boston Marathon won by Charles Mellor in 2:33:00.6
• Apr 21 Chuvash Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Chuvash ASSR
• Apr 21 No baseball games played in NL due to Charles Ebbets' funeral

• Apr 23 Having badly defeated Spain and driven her out of Spanish Morocco, the native Riffi, led by Abd-el-Krim, turn on the French in French Morocco
• Apr 23 Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO)
• Apr 24 88°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April

• Apr 26 Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big"
• Apr 28 Kurdish rebels surrender to Turkish army
• Apr 28 Netherlands & Great Britain return to gold standard
• Apr 30 Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity
• May 1 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony

• May 2 Kezar Stadium opens in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park
• May 4 League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage
• May 5 Afrikaans is established as an official language in South Africa.

• May 5 Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak
• May 6 Ty Cobb hits his 5th HR in 2 games tying Cap Ansons record of 1884
• May 7 MBA Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play
• May 7 Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row

• May 8 French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco
• May 9 Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem, laid
• May 10 To control demonstrations against foreigners, British troops in Shanghai fire into a crowd, leading to a boycott against British goods
• May 11 Communist Party of Holland splits
• May 11 Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region constituted in RSFSR

• May 12 Uzbekistan & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics

• May 21 George Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, becomes British High Commissioner in Egypt
• May 21 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes for the North Pole
• May 26 Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, 5 weeks after ulcer surgery
• May 26 Future Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder Ty Cobb is first to collect 1,000 extra-base hits when he doubles in Detroit Tigers' 8-1 win against the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park
• May 30 British mariners shoot on demonstrators
• May 30 In China protests erupt against the Great Powers infringing on Chinese sovereignty.
• May 30 Indianapolis 500: Race winner Peter DePaolo becomes first driver to complete 500 miles in under 5 hours, and have an average over 100 mph; Norman Batten drives 21 laps of relief while DePaolo has his hands bandaged due to blisters
• May 30 Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy

• Jun 3 Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" is the first to have an enclosed cabin

• Jun 10 Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches held in Toronto Arena
• Jun 13 57th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8
• Jun 13 American William DeHart Hubbard sets men's long jump world record at 7.89m (25 ft 10 3⁄4 in) in Chicago, Illinois
• Jun 13 Charles Jenkins demonstrates the transmission of synchronized pictures and sound (early television)
• Jun 15 Philadelphia As go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland 17-15
• Jun 16 The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek, is established
• Jun 16 The Union Government rejects a round-table conference with India on the grounds that it will constitute interference in South African affairs
• Jun 22 Spain and France fight Morocco
• Jun 23 British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers
• Jun 23 Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming)
• Jun 25 Military putsch under General Theodorus Pangulos in Greece

• Jun 29 Canada House opens in London, England
• Jun 30 Charles Jenkins is granted the U.S. patent for Transmitting Pictures over Wireless (early television)
• Jul 1 SDAP wins 4 chairs in Dutch Second-Parliamentary election
• Jul 1 Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK
• Jul 3 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen of France takes her 6th Wimbledon singles title with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Briton Joan Fry
• Jul 4 MLB New York Yankees Herb Pennock beats Philadelphia A's Lefty Grove 1-0 in 15 innings in first game of a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium
• Jul 4 The former Dreyfus Hotel collapses in Boston, Massachusetts, killing 44 of an estimated 200 patrons dancing in the second floor Pickwick Club
• Jul 4 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In an all-French final René Lacoste beats Jean Borotra 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 8-6
• Jul 10 Jury selection takes place in US John T. Scopes evolution trial
• Jul 10 Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
• Jul 10 USSR's official news agency TASS forms

• Jul 13 French occupation force begins evacuating country
• Jul 16 The first parliament in Iraq opened by King Feisal in Baghdad
• Jul 17 Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits
• 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 19 19th Tour de France won by Ottavio Bottecchia of Italy
• Jul 20 Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France
• Jul 20 Italian-Serbian/Croatian/Slav treaty about Dalmatie

• Jul 23 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers
• Jul 31 Last allied occupying troops leave German Ruhr region
• Jul 31 Unemployment Insurance Act passed in Britain
• Aug 1 Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk and Netherland East-Indies
• Aug 3 Last US troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912)
• Aug 4 1st Dutch government of Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn forms
• Aug 4 US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation
• Aug 5 Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language, which is in danger of dying out
• Aug 7 League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied
• Aug 8 1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (between 25,000 and 40,000 marchers) in Washington, D.C.

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