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1925 Calendar

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•  January 24, 1925 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Ox in Chinese astrology.
•  February 2, 1925 – Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
•  March 18, 1925 – The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
•  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.
•  May 1, 1925 – The first Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer is held at the University of Toronto, Canada.
•  May 30, 1925 – May 30 Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shot 13 protesting workers to death.
•  July 21, 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
•  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.
•  December 1, 1925 – World War I aftermath: The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements.
•  December 11, 1925 – Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas Primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.

•  January 1, 1925 – Raymond Pellegrin, French actor (d. 2007)
•  February 6, 1925 – Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian author (d. 2006)
•  April 2, 1925 – George MacDonald Fraser, English author (d. 2008)
•  April 4, 1925 – Claude Wagner, French-Canadian politician and judge (d. 1979)
•  May 28, 1925 – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone
•  June 14, 1925 – Pierre Salinger, American journalist; John F. Kennedy’s Press Secretary (d. 2004)
•  June 29, 1925 – Chan Parker, American memoir writer, wife of Charlie Parker and of Phil Woods (d. 1999)
•  September 7, 1925 – Allan Blakeney, Canadian politician
•  October 20, 1925 – Roger Hanin, French actor
•  December 11, 1925 – Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist, Nobel laureate