1925 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1925?
- 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.
- March 9, 1925 – Pink’s War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
- March 18, 1925 – The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
- April 26, 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
- May 1, 1925 – The first Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer is held at the University of Toronto, Canada.
- May 25, 1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
- June 16, 1925 – The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
- July 21, 1925 – Sir Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to break the 150 mph land barrier at Pendine Sands in Wales. He drove a Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph.
- July 25, 1925 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
- 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 14, 1925 – An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.)
- October 30, 1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain’s first television transmitter.
- November 5, 1925 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first “super-spy” of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
- November 28, 1925 – The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee as WSM Barn Dance.
- December 12, 1925 – The Majlis of Iran votes to crown Reza Khan as the new Shah of Persia.
- December 26, 1925 – Turkey adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
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