1925 Details, Meaning 1925 Article and Explanation Guide

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1 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 1 – Ahmet Zogu becomes president of Albania
February 21 - The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
March 1 - Earthquake in Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada
March 1 - Edgar Varèse's Intégrales is premiered in New York City
March 2 - Male suffrage in Japan
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.
March 18 - The Tri-State Tornado raked through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana and killed 695 people.
March 18 - Two floors of the Madame Tussaud's waxworks in London are destroyed by fire
May 1 - Cyprus becomes a British crown colony
May 18 - Trade Union Congress in Britain declares Zinoviev letter a fake
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 6 - The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.
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".
June 23 - First ascent of Mount Logan, the highest mountain in Canada.
June 25 - Military coup in Greece lead by general Theodoros Pengalos
July 10 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
July 10 - The official news agency of the Soviet Union called the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
July 18 - Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
July 21 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
August 8 – Ku Klux Klan marches in Washington DC
August 20 - Public transportation strike in Paris
September 3 - US dirigible Shenandoah breaks up enroute to Scottfield, St. Louis - 14 crewmen dead

October 30 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
October 31 - Ahmad Shah Qajar , Persian Shah of the Qajar dynasty is officialy deposed along with his dynasty.
November 4 - NKVD executes would-be-spy Sidney Reilly (in secret - revealed after Cold War)
November 28 - Country-variety show Grand Ole Opry makes its radio debut on station WSM (it would later become the longest-running live music show).
December 1 - World War I aftermath: Locarno Treaties - The final Locarno Pact is signed in London, establshing post-war territorial settlements in return for normalizing relations with defeated Germany.
December 1 - Locarno Pact signed
December 12 - New Iranian parliament transfer hereditary monarchy rights to Reza Khan - Pahlavi dynasty begins
December 15 - Reza Pahlavi takes his imperial oath and becomes Shah of Iran.

Asa Helgesen became the first Norwegian woman mayor in Ustira
British government instigates Coloured Seamen's Order that means that black sailors are registered as aliens
Popocatépetl volcano erupts
Thompson submachinegun sells for $175 in Sears mail order
Modern revival of ancient Latvian mythology begins, called Dievturiba
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 cooperation, founded in London.
Introduction of London's first double decker buses.
Britain returns to the Gold Standard.