1925 Calendar
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1925 Historical Event(s)
January 3, 1925
– Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
January 24, 1925
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Ox in Chinese astrology.
January 30, 1925
– The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
February 2, 1925
– The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
March 21, 1925
– Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
July 10, 1925
– Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
July 18, 1925
– Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
July 21, 1925
– Sir Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to break the 150 mph land barrier at Pendine Sands in Wales. He drove a Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph.
September 3, 1925
– USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), 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.
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.
Who Were Born On 1925?
January 14, 1925
– Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970)
February 17, 1925
– Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (d. 2003)
February 22, 1925
– Edward Gorey, American illustrator (d. 2000)
April 30, 1925
– Corinne Calvet, French actress (d. 2001)
May 22, 1925
– James King, American tenor (d. 2005)
June 3, 1925
– Thomas Joseph Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2001)
June 29, 1925
– Hale Smith, American composer and editor (d. 2009)
June 30, 1925
– Fred Schaus, American basketball coach and executive (d. 2010)
July 6, 1925
– Merv Griffin, American television show host (d. 2007)
November 4, 1925
– Ritwik Ghatak, Indian Filmmaker and script writer (d. 1976)