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.
- 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.
- March 21, 1925 – Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
- 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.
- June 10, 1925 – Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
- June 16, 1925 – The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
- July 10, 1925 – Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
- 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.
- August 9, 1925 – A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India
- October 2, 1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
- 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 28, 1925 – The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee as WSM Barn Dance.
- December 1, 1925 – World War I aftermath: The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements.
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