Historical Events in 1925 - On This Day

September 18, 2024

1925 Calendar

Events 1 - 200 of 287

Ponsford 1st Double Test Century

Jan 1 Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford becomes the first batsman to score a century in each of his first 2 Tests when he hits 128 against England in the 2nd Test in Melbourne; Australia wins by 81 runs

Jan 1 Norway's capital Christiania changes name to Oslo
Jan 2 Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR)

Il Duce the Dictator

Jan 3 Benito Mussolini dissolves the Italian parliament and proclaims himself dictator of Italy, taking the title "Il Duce" (the Leader)

Jan 4 French psychologist Emil Coué brings his self-esteem therapy to US "Every day in every way I am getting better & better"
Jan 5 England cricket openers Herbert Sutcliffe (176) and Jack Hobbs (154) display heroics in their 1st innings but the tourists sink to an 81 run defeat in the 2nd Test against Australia in Melbourne; Sutcliffe also adds 127 in the England 2nd innings
Jan 5 French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, & Hugh Jennings
Jan 5 James Gleason & Richard Tabers "Is zat so?" premieres in NYC
Jan 5 Nellie Tayloe Ross sworn in as Governor of Wyoming, 1st woman governor in USA
Jan 5 Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdańsk post office

Jan 6 Mussolini forms a cabinet composed entirely of Fascists in Italy

Nurmi's Indoor Record

Jan 6 Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4:13.6 mile & 14:44.6 5,000m

Jan 8 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas
Jan 8 England cricket opening batsman Herbert Sutcliffe follows his 1st innings 176 with 127 in the 2nd innings but his team cannot avoid an 81 run defeat to Australia in the 2nd Test in Melbourne
Jan 9 German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption
Jan 10 Allies refuse to evacuate the Cologne area of Germany as agreed
Jan 10 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Governor of Texasr, 2nd US woman governor, 1st ever elected

Secretary of State Kellogg

Jan 11 Frank Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes as US Secretary of State

Jan 12 John Howard Lawson's "Processional" premieres in NYC
Jan 14 Alban Berg's atonale opera "Wozzeck" premieres in Berlin

Jan 16 Hans Luther becomes Chancellor of Germany.
Jan 19 -48°F (-44°C), Van Buren, Maine (state record)
Jan 20 The Soviet and Japan sign a convention resuming relations: Russia agrees to limit revolutionary activity of the Third Communist International, while Japan agrees to leave the Sakhalin
Jan 21 Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe president
Jan 22 Albania Republic proclaimed under President Achmed Zogu
Jan 24 Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island
Jan 24 Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden
Jan 28 -46°F (-43°C), Pittsburgh, New Hampshire (state record)

Jan 30 Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople
Jan 31 Premier Ahmed Zogu becomes president of Angola
Feb 1 1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkämpferbund in Berlin
Feb 2 Belgian episcopacy rejects liberalism, communism & socialism
Feb 2 Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km
Feb 2 NL holds Golden Jubilee Year meeting at same hotel where NL began

Feb 9 Haifa Technion (Israel) opens
Feb 10 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Indiana
Feb 12 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress
Feb 12 E. Thieffry departs with Handley Page for the Belgian Congo
Feb 12 Estonia passes Law on Cultural Self-Government for National Minorities, allowing a unique degree of autonomy to ethnic and religious groups of 3,000 or more
Feb 13 US Congress makes Supreme Court appeals more difficult
Feb 14 State of emergency crisis in Bavaria ends, NSDAP re-allowed
Feb 16 Rescuers finally reach the body of caver Floyd Collins too late, 18 days after he became trapped in Sand Cave, Kentucky, bringing a tragic end to a story that had captured the nation [1]
Feb 21 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published
Feb 21 Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg
Feb 24 Thermite explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington, NY
Feb 25 Diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union established
Feb 25 Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska
Feb 26 Jihad against Turkish government

Feb 27 Test Cricket debut of Clarrie Grimmett, who took 5-45 & 6-37 v England
Feb 28 "Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hits #1
Feb 28 Congress authorizes a special handling stamp
Feb 28 Hans Luther assumes the role of acting head of state following the death of President Friedrich Ebert
Feb 28 Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games)
Feb 28 Theater Museum of Amsterdam forms
Mar 2 Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament
Mar 2 Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage
Mar 2 Nationwide road numbering system & US shield marker adopted
Mar 2 SDAP-Second-Faction of parliament demands drastic disarmament
Mar 4 Swain's Island, a remote coral atoll, is annexed by the United States and incorporated into American Samoa
Mar 4 US President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
Mar 6 Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmö dy & Sankt Vith
Mar 7 American Negro Congress organizes
Mar 9 Pink's War, the first RAF operation conducted independently of the Army or Navy, begins

British Refuse Geneva Agreement

Mar 12 British government of Stanley Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement

Mar 13 Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution

Big Boy

Mar 14 James F. Hanley, Joseph Meyer, and Buddy DeSylva's musical "Big Boy", starring Al Jolson, closes at the Winter Garden Theatre, NYC, after 56 performances

Mar 18 Great Tri-State Tornado: Monstrous F5 (over 300MPH) tornado roars 219 miles across southeast Missouri, southern Illinois, and southwest Indiana; kills 695, injures over 2000, and destroys 15,000 homes [1] [2]

Roncalli Made Bishop

Mar 19 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (future Pope John XXIII) becomes a bishop, appointed as Apostolic Visitor to Bulgaria

Mar 21 Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens
Mar 21 Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijri calendar
Mar 21 Tennessee governor Austin Peay passes the "Butler Act," making Tennessee the 1st state to outlaw teaching the theory of evolution (repealed 1967)
Mar 24 KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions
Mar 30 Stanley Cup Final, Patrick Arena, Victoria, BC: Victoria Cougars (WCHL) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 6-1 for a 3-1 series win; last non-NHL team to win trophy
Mar 31 WOWO-AM, Ft Wayne Indiana begins radio transmission (500 watts)
Apr 1 1st transmission of Danish state radio
Apr 1 Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated [see May 9, 1925]
Apr 3 Great Britain goes back to gold standard
Apr 3 Netherlands & Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde
Apr 5 Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election

Babe Ruth Collapses

Apr 5 Yankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in NC due to an ulcer

Apr 6 1st film shown on an airplane (British Air)
Apr 9 At the height of his fame Babe Ruth rushed to hospital with a mysterious condition labelled “the bellyache heard round the world". Ruth reported dead by some newspapers. [1]

Apr 10 Tsaritsyn renamed Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
Apr 11 Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco
Apr 13 Virginia Theater (ANTA, Guild) opens at 245 W 52nd St NYC
Apr 14 First regular-season Chicago Cubs game broadcast on radio (WGN) by caller Quin Ryan; Cubs beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 8-2
Apr 15 NHL's NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1
Apr 16 During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 wounded
Apr 17 NY Yankee Babe Ruth has ulcer surgery

Event of Interest

Apr 17 Paul Painlevé succeeds Edouard Herriot as French premier

Apr 18 World's Fair opens in Chicago
Apr 21 Chuvash Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Chuvash ASSR
Apr 21 No baseball games played in NL due to Charles Ebbets' funeral

Fallen Angels

Apr 21 Noël Coward's controversial comedy play "Fallen Angels" premieres in London, after initially being refused a license due to the loose morals of the female characters

Apr 23 Having badly defeated Spain and driven her out of Spanish Morocco, the native Riffi, led by Abd-el-Krim, turn on the French in French Morocco
Apr 23 Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO)
Apr 24 88°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April

Diego Rivera Leaves Communist Party

Apr 26 Artist Diego Rivera resigns from the Mexican Communist Party

Apr 26 Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big"
Apr 28 Kurdish rebels surrender to Turkish army
Apr 28 Netherlands & Great Britain return to gold standard
Apr 30 Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity
May 1 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony

Jimmie Foxx MLB Debut

May 1 Future Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Jimmie Foxx makes his MLB debut at 17 for Philadelphia A's; pinch-hits a single in 9-4 loss v Washington

May 2 Kezar Stadium opens in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park
May 4 League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage
May 5 Afrikaans is established as an official language in South Africa

John Scopes Arrested for Teaching Evolution

May 5 Dayton teacher John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee

Cobb Six for Six

May 5 Detroit center fielder Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6 with 4 runs, 5 RBI and 16 TBs in Tigers' 14-8 win over the Browns at Sportsman's Park III, St. Louis

May 5 Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak
May 6 Ty Cobb hits his 5th HR in 2 games tying Cap Ansons record of 1884
May 7 1st projection planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich, Germany
May 7 MBA Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play
May 7 Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row
May 8 French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco
May 9 Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem, laid
May 10 To control demonstrations against foreigners, British troops in Shanghai fire into a crowd, leading to a boycott against British goods
May 11 Communist Party of Holland splits
May 11 Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region constituted in RSFSR

Canonization of Jean Vianney

May 12 French priest Jean Vianney (1786-1859) canonized as Saint John Vianney by Pope Pius XI

May 12 Uzbekistan & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics

May 21 George Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, becomes British High Commissioner in Egypt
May 21 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes for the North Pole
May 26 Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, 5 weeks after ulcer surgery
May 26 Future Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder Ty Cobb is first to collect 1,000 extra-base hits when he doubles in Detroit Tigers' 8-1 win against the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park
May 30 British mariners shoot on demonstrators
May 30 In China protests erupt against the Great Powers infringing on Chinese sovereignty.
May 30 Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy

Gehrig Begins Record Run

Jun 1 Future NY Yankees Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig pinch hits for shortstop Pee-Wee Wanninge in a 5-3 loss to Washington; first of record 2,130 consecutive games

Jun 3 Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" is the first to have an enclosed cabin

Jun 10 Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches held in Toronto Arena
Jun 13 American William DeHart Hubbard sets men's long jump world record at 7.89m (25 ft 10 3⁄4 in) in Chicago, Illinois
Jun 13 Charles Jenkins demonstrates the transmission of synchronized pictures and sound (early television)
Jun 15 Philadelphia As go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland 17-15
Jun 16 The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek, is established
Jun 16 The Union Government rejects a round-table conference with India on the grounds that it will constitute interference in South African affairs
Jun 22 Spain and France fight Morocco
Jun 23 British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers
Jun 23 Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming)
Jun 25 Military putsch under General Theodorus Pangulos in Greece

Jun 29 Canada House opens in London, England
Jun 30 Charles Jenkins is granted the U.S. patent for Transmitting Pictures over Wireless (early television)
Jul 1 SDAP wins 4 chairs in Dutch Second-Parliamentary election
Jul 1 Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK
Jul 4 MLB New York Yankees Herb Pennock beats Philadelphia A's Lefty Grove 1-0 in 15 innings in first game of a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium
Jul 4 The former Dreyfus Hotel collapses in Boston, Massachusetts, killing 44 of an estimated 200 patrons dancing in the second floor Pickwick Club
Jul 10 Jury selection takes place in US John T. Scopes evolution trial
Jul 10 Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
Jul 10 USSR's official news agency TASS forms

Jul 13 French occupation force begins evacuating country
Jul 16 The first parliament in Iraq opened by King Feisal in Baghdad
Jul 17 Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits
Jul 18 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf, original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice"
Jul 20 Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France
Jul 20 Italian-Serbian/Croatian/Slav treaty about Dalmatie

Jul 21 John T. Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution in the “Scopes monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, fined $100 and costs

Yankees Buy Durocher

Jul 22 NY Yankees buy future Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop Leo Durocher from Hartford Senators (Eastern League)

Jul 23 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers
Jul 31 Last allied occupying troops leave German Ruhr region
Jul 31 Unemployment Insurance Act passed in Britain
Aug 1 Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk and Netherland East-Indies
Aug 3 Last US troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912)
Aug 4 1st Dutch government of Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn forms
Aug 4 US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation
Aug 5 Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language, which is in danger of dying out
Aug 7 League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied
Aug 8 1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (between 25,000 and 40,000 marchers) in Washington, D.C.
Aug 9 Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out
Aug 10 Hurricane strikes Borculo, 4 die
Aug 12 KMA-AM in Shenandoah IA begins radio transmissions
Aug 12 The first cast of Alpha Psi Omega, drawn from The Masquers of Fairmont College, West Virginia, is initiated.
Aug 12 The tariff law comes into force in Germany, setting up tariffs for industry and agriculture based on pre-war rates.
Aug 14 Moccasin Powerhouse along the Hetch Hetchy aqueduct in California is completed
Aug 14 Mount Rushmore Monument first proposed
Aug 15 Norway annexes Spitsbergen
Aug 18 Belgium & US sign treaty about war debts
Aug 18 Cardinal Mercier warns Belgians against socialism/liberalism
Aug 20 WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
Aug 21 Dutch football club FC Emmen is formed in the town of Emmen in north-eastern province of Drenthe in the Netherlands
Aug 25 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem NY)
Aug 25 Last Belgian troops vacate Duisburg
Aug 28 Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil Island
Aug 29 After a night on the town, Babe Ruth shows up late for batting practice Miller Huggins suspends Ruth & slaps a $5,000 fine on him
Aug 30 6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium

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