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1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1925th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 925th year of the 2nd millennium, the 25th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1920s decade. Events January January 1 – The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria. January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies which will be regarded by historians as the beginning of his dictatorship. January 5 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor (Wyoming) in the United States. Twelve days later, Ma Ferguson becomes first female governor of Texas. January 25 – Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden because of ill health, and is replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler. January 27–February 1 – The 1925 serum run to Nome (the "Great Race of Mercy") relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. Territory of Alaska to combat an epidemic. February February 25 – Art Gillham records (for Columbia Records) the first Western Electric masters to be commercially released. February 28 – The 1925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America. March March 1 – New York City Fire Department Rescue 2 is put in service in Brooklyn. March 4 İsmet İnönü is appointed prime minister in Turkey (Turkey's 4th and İnönü's 3rd government). Calvin Coolidge is sworn in for a full term as President of the United States, in the first inauguration to be broadcast on radio. March 6 – Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded in the Soviet Union. March 9–May 1 – Pink's War: The British Royal Air Force bombards mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan. March 15 – The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity (original name "The Aztecs") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teachers' College in Conway, Arkansas (the modern-day University of Central Arkansas). March 16 – At 22:42 local time a 7.0 earthquake shakes the Chinese province of Yunnan killing 5,000 people. March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history, rampages through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; West Frankfort, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana. March 31 – The Bauhaus closes in Weimar and moves to a building in Dessau designed by Walter Gropius. April April–October – The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes is held in Paris, giving a name to the Art Deco style. April 1 – In the United States: Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leave Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states. The Patent and Trademark Office is transferred to the Department of Commerce. April 10 – F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes his novel The Great Gatsby in New York. April 15 – Fritz Haarmann, a serial killer convicted of the murder of 24 boys and young men, is guillotined in Germany. April 16 – A communist assault on St Nedelya Church claims roughly 150 lives in Sofia, Bulgaria. April 19 – Colo-colo, a well-known football club of Chile, is founded in Macul, suburb of Santiago. April 20 – Iranian forces of Reza Shah occupy Ahvaz and arrest Sheikh Khazʽal Ibn Jabir. April 28 – Presenting the Stanley Baldwin government's budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill announces Britain's return to the gold standard. May May 1 In the Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi Arabia, the al-Baqi' mausoleums are destroyed by King Ibn Saud. Barcelona S.C. founded in Ecuador. The All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the world's largest trade union organisation, is founded in Guangzhou, Republic of China. May 5 – The General Election Law is passed in Japan, extending suffrage to all males aged 25 and over. May 8 – African American Tom Lee rescues 32 people from the sinking steamboat M.E. Norman on the Mississippi River. May 16 – The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1639/40) takes place in Paris. May 29 – English explorer Percy Fawcett sends a last telegram to his wife before he disappears in the Amazon. June June 6 – The Chrysler Corporation is founded as an automobile manufacturer by Walter Percy Chrysler in the United States. June 13 – American engineer Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines and a mechanical system in "the first public demonstration of radiovision". June 14 The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece is founded. The Turkish football club Göztepe is founded. June 29 – The 6.8 Mw  Santa Barbara earthquake affects the central coast of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), destroying much of downtown Santa Barbara, California and leaving 13 people dead. July July 10–21 – Scopes Trial: In a staged test case (the "Monkey Trial") in Dayton, Tennessee, John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher (technically arrested on May 5 and indicted on May 25) is accused of assigning a reading from a state-mandated textbook on Darwinian evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law, the "Butler Act". He is found guilty and fined $100, though the verdict is later overturned on a technicality. The trial makes explicit the fundamentalist–modernist controversy within the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, with William Jennings Bryan (who dies on July 26) being challenged by the liberal Clarence Darrow. July 10 – Meher Baba begins his 44-year silence. July 18 – Adolf Hitler publishes Volume 1 of his personal manifesto Mein Kampf in Germany. July 21 – English racing motorist Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph (241 km/h) on land when at Pendine Sands in Wales he drives a Sunbeam 350HP automobile at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h). July 25 The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established. The Temporary Slavery Commission of the League of Nations filed their report on their global investigation of slavery and slave trade, preparing the ground for the introduction of the 1926 Slavery Convention. August August 1 – The New Cape Central Railway between Worcester and Voorbaai is incorporated into the South African Railways. August 8 – The Ku Klux Klan, the largest fraternal racist organization in the United States, demonstrates its popularity by holding a parade with an estimated 30,000-35,000 marchers in Washington, D.C. August 14 – The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse in California is completed and goes on line. August 25 – The French complete their evacuation of the Ruhr region of Germany. August 31 – Anthropologist Margaret Mead lands in American Samoa to begin nine months of field work that will culminate in her .... Discover the Lucien Young Leavis Carroll popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Lucien Young Leavis Carroll books.