1925

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Years:	1922 1923 1924 - 1925 - 1926 1927 1928

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1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar).

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January 3 - Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.

January 5 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States.

February 21: The New Yorker

February 25 - Art Gillham records for Columbia Records the first Western Electric masters to be commercially released.

March 4 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcasted on radio.
March 6 - Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded
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 21 - Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signs the Butler Act, prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the state's public schools.
March 31 - WOWO radio station in Ft. Wayne, Indiana begins broadcasting.

April 1 - Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leave Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states.
April 10 - F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby
April 16 - The Communist St Nedelya Church assault claims the lives of 150 and injures 500 in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.

May 5 - Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee, biology teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
May 5 - General Election Law was passed in Japan.
May 8 - Tom Lee rescues 32 people from the M.E. Norman, a sinking steamboat.
May 25 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
May 25 - The National Forensics League is founded.
May 29 - Last communication from the British explorer Percy Fawcett, a telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.

June 1 - Percy and Florence Arrowsmith were married. Celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary June 1, 2005 - Percy is now 105, and wife Florence is 100. Guinness Book of Records said the pair held records for the longest marriage for a living couple and the oldest aggregate age of a married couple
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 National Bureau of Standards, the U.S. Navy, the Commerce Department, and others. Jenkins called this "the first public demonstration of radiovision".
June 29 - Santa Barbara Earthquake of 1925: a 6.3 earthquake destroys downtown Santa Barbara, California.

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 - Meher Baba begins his 44 year silence.
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.
July 25 - Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.

August 14 - The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
August 25 - French Evacuation of the Ruhr region of Germany.

September 3 - US dirigible Shenandoah breaks up en route to Scottfield, St. Louis - 14 crewmen dead.

November 26 - Prajadhipok (Rama VII) crowned as King of Siam.
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 16 - Colombo Radio broadcasting was launched in Ceylon the station subsequently known as Radio Ceylon.
December 26 - The Sphinx was finally dug out in 1925, to the great pleasure of its numerous visitors.

Queensland introduces a 44 hour week.
New York City becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from London.[1]
Thompson submachine gun sells for $175 in the 1925 Sears, Roebuck and Company mail order catalog.
Vladimir Zworykin takes out the first patent for colour television.
Introduction of London's first double decker buses.
The Royal Tweed Bridge in Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, is completed.
The National Football League adds five teams: New York Giants, Detroit Panthers, Providence Steam Roller, a new Canton Bulldogs team, and Pottsville Maroons
The Shueisha Publishing Company is founded.
Scotch Tape is invented.