Historical Events In 1925

Jul 06 The birth of Janet Leigh, American film actress

Jul 10 USSR's official news agency TASS established

Jul 10 Jury selection took place in John T Scopes evolution trial

Jul 01 Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK

Jul 22 Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher

Jul 18 First edition of Mein Kampf is published.

Jul 24 Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 & costs

Jul 24 Insulin successfully used for the first time to treat a patient

Mar 02 SDAP-Second-Faction (Dutch Socialists) of parliament demands drastic disarmament

Mar 21 Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijrah calendar

Mar 12 The birth of Gordon McRae, American actor

Mar 13 Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution

Mar 04 President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations

Mar 06 Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmédy &Sankt Vith

Mar 23 The teaching of Darwins theory of evolution banned in Tennessee schools

Mar 04 Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by US

Mar 23 Tennessee becomes first state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution

Mar 01 In the Charlevoix-Kamouraska area, Canada a 6.7 earthquake occured at local time 9:19:20 p.m. The earthquake was so strong that the shock was felt more than 1,000 kilometres from the epicentre

Mar 12 British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement

Mar 16 Yunnan, China a 7.1 earthquake caused5,000 deaths. Talifu almost completely destroyed.

Mar 12 Death of Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary leader.

Mar 18 The worst tornado in U.S. history passes through eastern Missouri, southern Illinois, and southern Indiana, killing 695 people, injuring some 13,000 people, and causing seventeen million dollars in property damage. Known as the "Tri-State Tornado

Mar 02 Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage

Mar 30 Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians

Mar 21 Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens

Mar 02 Nationwide road numbering system &US shield marker adopted

Mar 25 Greece becomes a republic when King George is deposed

Mar 26 The birth of Pierre Boulez, French composer

Mar 01 In the Charlevoix-Kamouraska area, Canada a 6.7 earthquake occured at local time 9 19 20 p.m. The earthquake was so strong that the shock was felt more than 1,000 kilometres from the epicentre

Mar 19 Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a bishop

Mar 10 Walter Mittelholzer is first to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran

Mar 06 12,000 Nova Scotia coal miners go on strike until August 6

Mar 07 American Negro Congress organizes

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