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1925 - Definition and Overview |
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Events
January-May
June-September
- 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 16 - The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek, established.
- 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.
- July 29 - Werner Heisenberg submits his paper on matrix mechanics, initiating the modern theory of quantum mechanics.
- 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-December
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Births
January
- January 6 - John De Lorean, auto maker
- January 7 - Gerald Durrell naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter
- January 8 - James Saunders, dramatist
- January 10 - Max Roach, drummer, composer
- January 11:
- January 13 - Gwen Verdon, actress, dancer (d. 2000)
- January 14 - Yukio Mishima, writer (d. 1970)
- January 17 - Robert Cormier, writer (d. 2000)
- January 20 - Ernesto Cardenal, theologian, author and politician
- January 24 - Maria Tallchief, prima ballerina
- 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-April
- February 1 - Alfred Grosser, political scientist and publicist
- February 2 - Elaine Stritch, actress
- February 4 - Russell Hoban, writer
- February 8 - Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (d. 2001)
- February 11:
- February 12 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician
- February 17 - Hal Holbrook, American actor
- February 18 - George Kennedy, actor
- February 20:
- February 21 - Sam Peckinpah, director (d. 1984)
- February 25 - Edward Gorey, illustrator (d. 2000)
- March 4 - Paul Mauriat, musician
- March 25 - Flannery O'Connor, American author (d. 1964)
- March 26 - Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor
- April 2:
- April 3 - Tony Benn, British politician
- April 14 - Rod Steiger, actor (d. 2002)
- April 25 - Sammy Drechsel, journalist, film director and cabaretist (d. 1986)
May-September
- May 6 - Hanns Dieter Hüsch, cabaretist
- May 12 - Yogi Berra, American Baseball Hall of Famer
- May 19:
- May 22 - Jean Tinguely, kinetic artist (d. 1991)
- May 28 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone
- June 3 - Tony Curtis, American actor
- June 5 - Art Donovan, American football player
- June 26 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (d. 1970)
- July 6:
- July 11 - Nicolai Gedda, Swedish tenor
- July 18 - Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete
- July 29 - Ted Lindsay, ice hockey Hall of Fame player
- August 15:
- August 19 - Claude Gauvreau, Quebec playwright, poet and polemist
- September 8 - Peter Sellers, comedian, actor (d. 1980)
- September 16 - Charles Haughey, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
- September 20 - James Galanos, fashion designer
October-December
- October 1 - Bob Boyd, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004)
- October 3 - Gore Vidal, American author
- October 13 - Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister (1979-1990)
- October 16 - Angela Lansbury, American actress
- October 23 - Johnny Carson, American comedian, television host (d. 2005)
- October 24 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d. 2003)
- November 17 - Charles Mackerras, American conductor
- November 20 - Robert Kennedy, American politician, Attorney General of the United States (d. 1968)
- November 24 - William F. Buckley, Jr., American author, commentator
- November 26 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d. 2003)
- December 8 - Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, musician, actor (d. 1990)
- December 13 - Dick Van Dyke, American actor
- December 28 - Hildegard Knef, actress, singer and writer (d. 2002)
- William H. Gates, Sr., American attorney, father of Bill Gates
Deaths
- February 2 - Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (b. 1873)
- February 10 - Aristide Bruant, French cabaret singer and comedian (b. 1851)
- March 12 - Sun Yat Sen, Chinese revolutionary, politician (b. 1866)
- March 20 - George Nathaniel Curzon (Lord Curzon), British statesman (b. 1859)
- April 14 - John Singer Sargent, English artist (b. 1856)
- May 3 - Clément Ader, French engineer and inventor (b. 1841)
- May 12 - Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)
- May 14 - H. Rider Haggard, English author (b. 1856)
- June 16 - Emmett Hardy, jazz musician (b. 1903)
- July 1 - Erik Satie - French composer (b. 1866)
- July 26 - William Jennings Bryan, American politician (b. 1860)
- August 25 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian Chief of Staff, WWI (b. 1852)
- September 4 - Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, American horseman, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1880)
- November 20 - Queen Alexandra, widow of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1825)
- George Washington Cable - American writer
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Example Usage of 1925 |
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