1925 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1925?
- January 5, 1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
- January 24, 1925 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Ox in Chinese astrology.
- January 30, 1925 – The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
- February 2, 1925 – The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
- February 21, 1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
- March 9, 1925 – Pink’s War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
- March 13, 1925 – Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
- April 10, 1925 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
- May 1, 1925 – The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134 million members.
- May 5, 1925 – Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
- May 30, 1925 – May 30 Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shot 13 protesting workers to death.
- July 10, 1925 – Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
- July 21, 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
- July 25, 1925 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
- August 9, 1925 – A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India
- 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.
- October 30, 1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain’s first television transmitter.
- December 11, 1925 – Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas Primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.
- December 12, 1925 – The Majlis of Iran votes to crown Reza Khan as the new Shah of Persia.
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