1925

January 1

• American astronomer Edwin Hubble announces the discovery of galaxies outside the Milky Way. (December 31, 1924 [1]) [5]
• Norway's capital Christiania changes name to Oslo. [1] [88.22]

January 2

• Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR). [1]

January 3

• Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator. [1]

January 4

• French psychologist Emil Coué brings his self-esteem therapy to US "Every day in every way I am getting better and better". [1]

January 5

• James Gleason and Richard Tabers "Is zat so?" premieres in New York City, New York. [1]
• Nellie Taylor Ross became Governor of Wyoming, first woman governor in USA. [1]
• Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office. [1]

January 7

• Musical "Big Boy" with Al Jolson premieres in New York City, New York. [1]

January 8

• First all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas. [1]

January 9

• German Postal Minister A Höfle resigns due to corruption. [1]

January 10

• France-Saarland forms. [1]
• Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Texas Governor, nation's second woman governor. [1]

January 11

• Franc B Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes on as US Secretary of State. [1]

January 12

• John Howard Lawson's "Processional" premieres in New York City, New York. [1]
• Oskar Brefeld German botanist, dies at age 85. [1]

January 14

• Alban Berg's atonale opera "Wozzeck" premieres in Berlin. [1]
• Willem Devout self employed (V and Dreesmann), dies. [1]

January 15

• Hans Luther forms German government, with DNVP. [1]

January 16

• General M Froense replaces Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Defense. [1]
• Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council. [1]

January 19

• -48 degrees F (-44 degrees C), Van Buren Maine (state record). [1]

January 20

• USSR and Japan sign treaty of Peking, Seychelles back to USSR. [1]

January 21

• Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe President. [1]

January 22

• Albania Republic proclaimed under President Achmed Zogu. [1]

January 24

• Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island. [1]
• Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden. [1]

January 28

• -46 degrees F (-43 degrees C), Pittsburgh New Hampshire (state record). [1]

January 29

• British Liberals choose David Lloyd George as party leader. [1]

January 30

• Jakab Gyula Major composer, dies at age 66. [1]
• John F Mellaerts Flemish social founder (Boerenbond), dies at age 79. [1]
• Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople. [1]

January 31

• Premier Ahmed Zogu (Zogu I) becomes President of Albania. [1]

February 1

• First national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkämpferbund in Berlin. [1]

February 2

• Antti Aarne Finnish sociologist, dies at age 57. [1]
• Belgian episcopacy rejects liberalism, communism and socialism. [1]
• Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km. [1]

February 8

• Kaufman and Berlin's "Coconuts" premieres in New York City, New York. [1]
• Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta Georgia. [1]

February 9

• German Minister Stresemann proposes security treaty with France. [1]
• Haifa Technion (Israel), opens. [1]

February 10

• First waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City Indiana. [1]

February 12

• First federal arbitration law approved byUS Congress. [1]
• E Thieffry departs with Handley Page for the Belgian Congo. [1]
• Estonia forbids Communist Party. [1]

February 13

• US Congress makes Surpreme Court appeal more difficult. [1]

February 14

• State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed. [1]

February 17

• Birth of Fritz Behrendt German/Dutch cartoon character (The Slogan). [1]

February 18

• James Lane Allen US writer (Choir Invisible), dies at age 75. [1]

February 21

• First issue of "New Yorker" magazine published. [1]
• Alfred Baldwin Sloan composer, dies at age 52. [1]
• Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg. [1]

February 22

• Georges/Joris Helleputte Belgian Catholic minister, dies at age 72. [1]
• Nina David [Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon], poet/author, dies. [1]
• Thomas C Allbutt English physiologist, dies at age 88. [1]

February 24

• Thermit explosive first used to break up ice jam, Waddington New York. [1]

February 25

• Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska. [1]
• Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia composer, dies at age 81. [1]

February 26

• Jihad-Saint war against Turkish government. [1]

February 27

• Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich. [1]

February 28

• "Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hit #1. [1]
• US Congress authorizes a special handling stamp. [1]
• Friedrich Ebert Social-Democrat president of Germany, dies. [1]
• Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games). [1]
• Theater Museum of Amsterdam forms. [1]

March 2

• Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage. [1]
• Nationwide road numbering system and US shield marker adopted. [1]
• SDAP-Second-Faction (Dutch Socialists) of parliament demands drastic disarmament. [1]

March 4

• Moritz Moszkowski Polish/German composer, dies at age 70. [1]
• President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations. [1]
• Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by US. [1]

March 6

• Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmédy and Sankt Vith. [1]

March 7

• American Negro Congress organizes. [1]

March 10

• Walter Mittelholzer is first to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran. [1]

March 11

• Andreas Hallen composer, dies at age 78. [1]

March 12

• British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement. [1]
• Sun Yat-Sen Chinese revolutionary president, dies at age 58. [1]

March 13

• Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution. [1]

March 18

• (8) 60-MPH tornadoes speed through Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee killing 689. [1]

March 19

• Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a bishop. [1]

March 20

• George N Curzon British Foreign minister (1919-22), dies at age 66. [1]

March 21

• Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijrah calendar. [1]

March 23

• Aleksei Kuropatkin Russian General/minister of War, dies at age 76. [1]
• Tennessee becomes first state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution. [1]

March 24

• KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions. [1]

March 27

• Carl G Neumann German mathematician/physicist, dies at age 92. [1]

March 30

• Rudolf Steiner Austrian philosopher (anthroposophy), dies at age 64. [1]
• Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians. [1]

March 31

• WOWO-AM, Fort Wayne IN begins radio transmission (500 watts). [1]

April 1

• First transmission of Danish state radio. [1]
• Francis William Davenport composer, dies at age 77. [1]

April 3

• Great Britain goes back to gold standard. [1]
• Netherlands and Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde. [1]

April 5

• Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election. [1]

April 6

• First film shown on an airplane (British Air). [1]

April 9

• Babe Ruth rushed to hospital. [1]

April 10

• Czarina re-christens Stalingrad (now Volgograd). [1]
• F Scott Fitzgerald publishes "The Great Gatsby". [1]
• Scribners publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald. [1]

April 11

• Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco. [1]

April 13

• Virginia Theater (ANTA, Guild) opens at 245 W 52nd Steet New York City, New York. [1]

April 14

• First regular-season Chicago Cubs game to be broadcast on radio (WGN). [1]
• Pieter D van Essen Dutch artillery officer, dies at age 54. [1]

April 15

• John Singer Sargent US portrait painter, dies at age 69. [1]

April 17

• Paul Painlevé follows Edouard Herriot on as French premier. [1]

April 18

• World's fair opens in Chicago. [1]

April 21

• Chuvash Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Chuvash ASSR. [1]
• Noël Coward's "Fallen Angels", premieres in London. [1]

April 23

• First London performance of operetta "Fasquita" staged. [1]
• André Caplet French composer (Le miroir de Jésus), dies at age 45. [1]
• Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO) forms. [1]

April 24

• 88 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland Ohio in April. [1]

April 25

• George Stephanescu composer, dies at age 81. [1]
• Paul von Hindenburg elected second President of Germany (Adolf Hitler is third). [1]

April 26

• Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big". [1]

April 28

• Kurd rebels surrender to Turkish army. [1]
• Louis F J Bouwmeester actor (Shakespeare), dies. [1]
• Netherlands and Great Britain return to gold standard. [1]

April 29

• Netherlands returns to gold standard. [1]

May 1

• Oakland Athletics Jimmie Foxx, 17, first game; he pinch-hits a single. [1]
• Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony. [1]

May 3

• Clément Ader French engineer (steam engine airplane), dies at age 84. [1]

May 4

• League of Nations conference on arms control and poison gas usage. [1]

May 5

• John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee. [1]

May 8

• French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco. [1]

May 9

• Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid. [1]

May 11

• Communist Party of Holland splits. [1]
• Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region constituted in RSFSR. [1]

May 12

• Alfred Milner British Governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at age 71. [1]
• Amy Lowell writer, dies at age 51. [1]
• Artur Napoleao dos Santos composer, dies at age 82. [1]
• Uzbekistan and Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics. [1]

May 13

• Boris V Savinkov Russian writer/terrorist, dies. [1]

May 14

• Henry Rider Haggard English writer (Dawn, She), dies. [1]

May 17

• Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit. [1]

May 21

• Canadians allow to beer sales. [1]
• George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt. [1]
• Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with two seaplanes to North Pole. [1]

May 22

• John [Denton Pinkstone] French British field marshall (WWI), dies at age 72. [1]

May 26

• Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, five weeks after ulcer surgery. [1]

May 30

• British mariners shoot on demonstrators. [1]
• Peter DePaolo became first man to average over 100 mph at Indianapolis 500. [1]

June 3

• Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" makes first flight (first with enclosed cabin). [1]

June 6

• Walter Percy Chrysler founds the Chrysler Corporation. [1] [5]

June 15

• B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #1093 Freda. [1]

June 22

• G Shajn discovers asteroid #1058 Grubba. [1]

June 23

• Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming). [1]

July 1

• Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in United Kingdom. [1]

July 4

• 44 die when the Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses. [1]

July 10

• In Dayton, Tennessee, the "Monkey Trial" begins with John Thomas Scopes, a high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. [1] [129]
• USSR's official news agency TASS established. [1]

July 13

• Walt Disney marries Lillian Bounds at her brother's house, in Lewiston, Idaho. [6]

July 19

• V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1059 Mussorgskia. [1]

July 21

• John Thomas Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law, and fined US$100. Scopes' lawyer had recommended a guilty verdict, to allow for an appeal. In 1927, Tennessee Supreme Court overturns the verdict. [129] (July 24 [1])

July 26

• Death of William Jennings Bryan, Christian fundamentalist, five days after public humiliation at the "Monkey Trial" of John Scopes. [1] [129]

July 31

• Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England. [1]

August 4

• US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation. [1]

August 9

• Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out. [1]

August 12

• KMA-AM in Shenandoah Iowa begins radio transmissions. [1]

August 14

• The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line. [5]

August 20

• WJR-AM in Detroit Michigan begins radio transmissions. [1]

August 25

• Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem New York). [1]

September 3

• Dirigible "Shenandoah" crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die. [1]

September 5

• 112 degrees F (44 degrees C), Centerville, Alabama (state record). [1]

September 22

• Yank Ben Paschal hits two inside-the-park homers. [1]

September 26

• Italian submarine "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead. [1]

October 2

• John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system. [5]

October 5

• WSM-AM in Nashville Tenn begins radio transmissions. [1]

October 16

• In Locarno, Switzerland, the Pact of Locarno is signed by Germany, Belgium, Great Britain, France, Italy, Poland, and Czechslovakia. The nations agree to a mutual guarantee of existing borders, and to make peaceful settlements of disputes. [10]
• In Locarno, the Treaty of Mutual Guarantee is signed by Great Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, and Italy. Germany and Belgium, and Germany and France agree to not attack or invade each other. [10]
• France and Poland sign a Treaty of Mutual Guarantee, to immediately aid the other if attacked by Germany. [10]
• Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution. [1]

October 27

• Water skis patented by Fred Waller. [1]

October 30

• KUT-AM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions. [1]

November 11

• Louis Armstrong records first of Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings. [1]
• Robert Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays. [1]

November 16

• American Association for the Advancement of Atheism formed in New York. [1]

November 21

• Red Grange plays final Univ of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears. [1]

November 22

• Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college. [1]

December 1

• Treaty of Locarno signed. [1]
• Vicente Arregui Garay composer, dies at age 54. [1]

December 2

• Julio Garreta composer, dies at age 50. [1]

December 5

• German government of Luther falls. [1]
• Wilhelmina E Drucker [Lensing] Dutch feminist, dies at age 78. [1]

December 6

• Italy, Britain and Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy). [1]

December 7

• Biltmore Theater opens at 261 W 47th Steet New York City. [1]
• Noel Coward's "Easy Virtue" premieres in New York City, New York. [1]

December 9

• Eugene Gigout composer, dies at age 81. [1]

December 10

• George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel. [1]

December 11

• Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quas Primas. [1]

December 12

• Arthur Heinman coins term "motel", opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo. [1]
• Cossack officer/ex-premier Reza Chan becomes shah of Persia. [1]
• Last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rexa Shah Pahlavi takes over. [1]

December 15

• First road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic. [1]

December 17

• Colonel William "Billy" Mitchell court-martial for insubordination. [1]
• Russia and Turkey sign non-aggresion pact. [1]

December 19

• Jose Ignacio Quinton composer, dies at age 44. [1]

December 20

• Birth of Bob de Moor Flemish comic strip artist (Kuifje, Lion of Flanders). [1]

December 21

• Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow. [1]

December 23

• A S C Wallis [Adèle von Antal-Opzoomer] writer (Vorstengunst), dies. [1]
• Sultan Ibn Saud of Nedzjed conquers Djeddah. [1]

December 25

• Sergei Jessenin writer, dies at age 30. [1]

December 26

• New York's Jake Forbes makes 67 saves, Pittsburgh's Ray Waters makes 70. [1]
• Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar. [1]

December 27

• Louis Dosfel Flemish lawyer/literary (Assault!), dies at age 44. [1]

December 28

• George/Ira Gershwin's musical "Tip-Toes" premieres in New York City, New York. [1]

December 29

• Félix E Vallotton Swiss painter/writer (Chaste Susanne), dies at age 60. [1]

December 30

• New South Wales score 705 against Victoria, go from 8-475 to 9-701. [1]

December 31

• 14th congress of CPSU decides to accelerate industry. [1]