1925

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

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[?]