1925 - Wikipedia

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s

Years: 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 - 1925 - 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930

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1 Events

2 Art, Culture & Fashion

3 Births

4 Deaths

5 Science

6 Nobel Prizes

Events

January 3 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
January 5 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States.
January 21 - Albania declares itself a republic
January 30 - Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI[?] out of Istanbul
February 21 - The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
March 4 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcasted on radio.
March 13 - Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
May 25 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
May 25 - The National Forensics League is founded.
June 13 - Charles Francis Jenkins[?] achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines, and a mechanical system. A 10-minute film of a miniature windmill in motion is sent across 5 miles from Anacostia to Washington, DC. The images were viewed by representatives of the Bureau of Standards[?], the U.S. Navy, the Commerce Department[?], and others. Jenkins called this "the first public demonstration of radiovision"
Modern revival of ancient Latvian mythology begins, called Dievturiba
Scopes Trial testing a law favouring Creationism over Evolution.
Sweden decides on extensive disarmament.
Spanish and French expeditionary forces landing at Alhucemas[?] during the war of the Rif.
Vladimir Zworykin takes out the first patent for colour television
The Woodcraft Folk, an organisation for young people to promote equality, peace, social justice and co-operation, founded in London.

Art, Culture & Fashion

1925 in film
1925 in literature
1925 in music
- Victor, Columbia, HMV phonograph companies switch from old acoustic mechanical recording methods to new electric microphone technology
1925 in sports[?]

Births

January 6 - John DeLorean, auto maker
January 8 - James Saunders[?], dramatist
January 10 - Max Roach, drummer, composer
February 4 - Russell Hoban[?], writer
February 8 - Jack Lemmon, actor and film director (+ 2001)
January 11 - Grant Tinker[?], television executive
January 11 - William Styron, writer
January 24 - Maria Tallchief[?], prima ballerina
January 13 - Gwen Verdon, actress, dancer (+ 2000)
January 20 - Ernesto Cardenal[?], theologian, author and politician
January 21 - Benny Hill, comedian, actor (+ 1992)
January 26 - Paul Newman, actor
January 30 - Dorothy Malone[?], actress
January 31 - Benjamin Hooks[?], head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
February 1 - Alfred Grosser[?], political scientist and publicist
February 2 - Elaine Stritch[?], actress
February 8 - Jack Lemmon, actor and film director (+ 2001)
February 11 - Peter Berger[?], British Vice-Admiral.
February 11 - Kim Stanley, actress.
February 11 - Virginia Johnson[?], doctor/sexologist.
February 12 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician
February 17 - Hal Holbrook[?], actor
February 18 - George Kennedy[?], actor
February 20 - Robert Altman, film director
February 20 - Heinz Kluncker[?], labor union leader
February 21 - Sam Peckinpah, director (+ 1984)
February 25 - Edward Gorey, illustrator (+ 2000)
March 4 - Paul Mauriat[?], musician
March 25 - Flannery O'Connor, author (+ 1964)
March 26 - Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor
April 2 - Hans Rosenthal[?], showmaster (+ 1987)
April 2 - George MacDonald Fraser[?], author
April 3 - Tony Benn, British politician
April 14 - Rod Steiger, actor
April 25 - Sammy Drechsel[?], journalist, film director and cabaretist (+ 1986)
May 6 - Hanns Dieter Hüsch[?], cabaretist
May 12 - Yogi Berra, Baseball Hall of Famer
May 19 - Pol Pot - Cambodian dictator (+ 1998)
May 19 - Malcolm X (+ 1965)
May 22 - Jean Tinguely, kinetic artist (+ 1991)
May 28 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau[?], bariton
June 26 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (+1970)
July 6 - Bill Haley, rock and roll musician.
August 15 - Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist
October 13 - Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister (1979-1990)
October 24 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer
November 20 - Robert Kennedy (+ 1968)
December 28 - Hildegard Knef, actress, singer and writer

Deaths

March 12 - Sun Yat Sen, Chinese revolutionary, politician
March 20 - George Nathaniel Curzon (Lord Curzon), British statesman
April 14 - John Singer Sargent, artist
May 12 - Amy Lowell, poet
May 14 - H. Rider Haggard, author
July 1 - Erik Satie - French composer
July 26 - William Jennings Bryan - American politician.
November 20 - Queen Alexandra, widow of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
George Washington Cable[?] - American writer

Science

Modern quantum mechanics is independently formulated by Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger

Nobel Prizes

Main article: Nobel Prizes

Physics - James Franck[?], Gustav Ludwig Hertz[?]
Chemistry - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy[?]
Medicine - not awarded
Literature - George Bernard Shaw
Peace - Sir Austen Chamberlain Charles Gates Dawes[?]