1925 Calendar
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1925 Historical Event(s)
January 3, 1925
– Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
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 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.
April 16, 1925
– During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
May 1, 1925
– The first Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer is held at the University of Toronto, Canada.
July 10, 1925
– Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
October 2, 1925
– John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
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 24, 1925
– Maria Tallchief, American ballerina
March 8, 1925
– Warren Bennis, American educator and author
March 13, 1925
– Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer
March 26, 1925
– Ben Mondor, Canadian-born American baseball executive (d. 2010)
April 14, 1925
– Abel Muzorewa, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (d. 2010)
August 9, 1925
– David A. Huffman, American computer scientist (d. 1999)
October 29, 1925
– Robert Hardy, English actor
October 30, 1925
– Tommy Ridgley, American R&B singer (d. 1999)
October 31, 1925
– John Pople, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
December 8, 1925
– Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author (d. 2000)