Important Historical Events of the year 1925, Year 1925 in History

List of 1925 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1925

What happened in the year 1925?

Date Event
January 5, 1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
January 21, 1925 Albania declares itself a republic.
January 30, 1925 The Government of Turkey expels Patriarch Constantine VI from Istanbul.
February 2, 1925 Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
February 15, 1925 The 1925 serum run to Nome: The second delivery of serum arrives in Nome, Alaska.
February 21, 1925 The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
February 28, 1925 The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
March 18, 1925 The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
March 21, 1925 The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
March 21, 1925 Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
April 4, 1925 The Schutzstaffel (SS) is founded under Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party in Germany.
April 10, 1925 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
April 16, 1925 During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
April 26, 1925 Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
April 30, 1925 Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146 million plus $50 million for charity.
May 1, 1925 The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134 million members.
May 16, 1925 The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria occurred in Paris.
May 25, 1925 Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching human evolution in Tennessee.
May 30, 1925 May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers.
June 6, 1925 The original Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter Chrysler from the remains of the Maxwell Motor Company.
June 16, 1925 Artek, the most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, is established.
July 10, 1925 Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
July 18, 1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.
July 21, 1925 Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching human evolution in class and fined $100.
July 21, 1925 Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph (241 km/h) on land. At Pendine Sands in Wales, he drives Sunbeam 350HP built by Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h).
July 25, 1925 Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
August 5, 1925 Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.
August 9, 1925 A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India, by the Indian independence revolutionaries, against British government.
September 3, 1925 USS Shenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.
September 8, 1925 Rif War: Spanish forces including troops from the Foreign Legion under Colonel Francisco Franco landing at Al Hoceima, Morocco.
October 4, 1925 Great Syrian Revolt: Rebels led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji captured Hama from the French Mandate of Syria.
October 4, 1925 S2, a Finnish Sokol class torpedo boat, sinks during a fierce storm near the coast of Pori in the Gulf of Bothnia, taking with it the whole crew of 53.
November 5, 1925 Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
November 28, 1925 The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance.
December 11, 1925 Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.