Historical Events In 1925

Feb 28 Congress authorizes a special handling stamp

Feb 20 The birth of Robert Altman American director

Feb 21 Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg

Feb 25 US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran

Feb 24 Thermit explosive first used to break up ice jam, Waddington NY

Feb 25 US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles

Feb 14 State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed

Apr 08 First planned night landings on a carrier, USS Langley, by VF-1

Apr 09 Babe Ruth rushed to hospital

Apr 21 Chuvash Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Chuvash ASSR

Apr 03 Netherlands & Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde

Apr 08 Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated [see May 9, 1925]

Apr 19 The birth of Hugh O'Brien, American actor

Apr 01 Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated [see May 9, 1925]

Apr 25 Hindenburg takes office as president of Germany

Apr 03 Great Britain goes back to gold standard

Apr 05 Yankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in North Carolina due to an ulcer

Apr 10 F Scott Fitzgerald publishes "The Great Gatsby"

Apr 14 The birth of Rod Steiger, American film actor

Apr 22 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1042 Amazone & #1043 Beate

Apr 18 World's fair opens in Chicago

Apr 05 Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election

Nov 11 Robert Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays

Nov 20 Queen Alexandra, widow of King Edward VII and mother of King George V dies in England

Nov 24 The birth of Alun Owen, American script writer

Nov 20 American politician Robert F. Kennedy is born

Nov 11 Louis Armstrong records first of Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings

Nov 28 Famed NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses in a game and dies of TB 4months later

Nov 20 The birth of Robert Kennedy, American politician

Nov 20 The birth of Maya Plisetskaya, Russian Ballerina

Nov 10 The birth of Richard Burton, Welsh actor

Sep 05 112ø F (44ø C), Centerville, Alabama (state record)

Sep 26 Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead

Sep 03 Dirigible "Shenandoah" crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die

Sep 26 Country singer Marty Robbins born

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