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January 3 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.

January 5 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States.

January 27–February 1 - The 1925 serum run to Nome, or the "Great Race of Mercy", relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. territory of Alaska to combat an epidemic

February 21 - The New Yorker publishes its first issue.

March 4 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcasted on radio.

March 6 - Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded

March 13 - Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.

March 18 - The Tri-State Tornado raked through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana and killed 695 people.

March 31 - WOWO radio station in Ft. Wayne, Indiana begins broadcasting.

April 10 - F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby

April 16 - The Communist St Nedelya Church assault claims the lives of 150 and injures 500 in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.

May 5 - Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee, biology teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

May 5 - General Election Law was passed in Japan.

May 8 - Tom Lee rescues 32 people from the M.E. Norman, a sinking steamboat.

May 25 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.

May 25 - The National Forensics League is founded.

May 29 - Last communication from the British explorer Percy Fawcett, a telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.

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June 1 - Percy and Florence Arrowsmith were married. Celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary June 1, 2005 - Percy is now 105, and wife Florence is 100. Guinness Book of Records said the pair held records for the longest marriage for a living couple and the oldest aggregate age of a married couple

June 6 - The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.

June 13 - Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines, and a mechanical system. A 10-minute film of a miniature windmill in motion is sent across 5 miles from Anacostia to Washington, DC. The images were viewed by representatives of the National Bureau of Standards, the U.S. Navy, the Commerce Department, and others. Jenkins called this "the first public demonstration of radiovision".

June 29 - Santa Barbara Earthquake of 1925: a 6.3 earthquake destroys downtown Santa Barbara, California.

July 10 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.

July 18 - Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.

July 21 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.

July 25 - Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.

August 14 - The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.

August 25 - French Evacuation of the Ruhr region of Germany.

September 3 - US dirigible ''Shenandoah'' breaks up en route to Scottfield, St. Louis - 14 crewmen dead.

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October - Major money forgery and fraud of Alves Reis exposed in Portugal.

October 30 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

November 26 - Prajadhipok (Rama VII) crowned as King of Siam.

November 28 - Country-variety show Grand Ole Opry makes its radio debut on station WSM (it would later become the longest-running live music show).

December 16 - Colombo Radio broadcasting was launched in Ceylon the station subsequently known as Radio Ceylon.

December 26 - The Sphinx was finally dug out in 1925, to the great pleasure of its numerous visitors.

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New York City becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from London.*

Thompson submachine gun sells for $175 in the Sears mail order catalog.

Vladimir Zworykin takes out the first patent for colour television.

Introduction of London's first double decker buses.

The Royal Tweed Bridge in Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, is completed.

The National Football League adds five teams: New York Giants, Detroit Panthers, Providence Steam Roller, a new Canton Bulldogs team, and Pottsville Maroons

The Shueisha Publishing Company is founded.

Scotch Tape is invented

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January 6 - John De Lorean, American car maker (d. 2005)

January 7 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (d. 1995)

January 11 - Grant Tinker, American television executive

January 14 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970)

January 25 - Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (d. 1995)

January 26 - Paul Newman, American actor

January 30 - Dorothy Malone, American actress

February 3 - Leon Schlumpf, member of the Swiss Federal Council

February 8 - Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (d. 2001)

February 17 - Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (d. 2003)

February 17 - Hal Holbrook, American actor

February 18 - George Kennedy, American actor

February 20 - Robert Altman, American film director

February 21 - Sam Peckinpah, American director (d. 1984)

February 27 - Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (d. 2004)

March 12 - Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

March 16 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist (d. 2004)

March 23 - David Watkin, British cinematographer

March 25 - Flannery O'Connor, American writer (d. 1964)

March 26 - Pierre Boulez, French composer

April 14 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1974)

April 14 - Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002)

April 20 - Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (d. 2006)

April 22 - George Cole, British actor

April 24 - Eugen Weber, Romanian-born historian

April 25 - Kay E. Kuter, American actor (d. 2003)

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May 2 - Yogi Berra, baseball player

May 4 - Maurice R. Greenberg, American businessman

May 5 - Charles Chaplin Jr., American actor (d. 1968)

May 19 - Pol Pot, Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader (d. 1998)

May 19 - Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)

May 22 - James King, American tenor (d. 2005)

May 23 - Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

May 25 - Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003)

June 3 - Tony Curtis, American actor

June 8 - Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States

June 11 - William Styron, American writer (d. 2006)

June 14 - Pierre Salinger, White House Press Secretary (d. 2004)

June 21 - Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)

July 1 - Farley Granger, American actor

July 6 - Merv Griffin, American game show developer and host

July 6 - Bill Haley, American musician (Bill Haley and the Comets) (d. 1981)

July 10 - Mahathir bin Mohamad, fourth Prime Minister of Maylasia

July 28 - Baruch S. Blumberg, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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August 3 - Dom Um Romão, Brazilian jazz drummer

August 7 - M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist

August 8 - Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (d. 2003)

August 9 - David A. Huffman, American computer scientist (d. 1999)

August 11 - Mike Douglas, American entertainer (d. 2006)

August 12 - Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 2004)

August 12 - Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 1975)

August 15 - Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist

August 21 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003)

August 27 - Nat Lofthouse, English footballer

August 28 - Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 2003)

August 30 - Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator

September 8 - Peter Sellers, English comedian and actor (d. 1980)

September 10 - Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1996)

September 16 - Charles Haughey, sixth Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2006)

September 24 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)

September 23 - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (d. 2006)

September 28 - Arnold Stang, American actor

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October 11 - Elmore Leonard, American novelist

October 13 - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

October 16 - Angela Lansbury, American actress

October 20 - Art Buchwald, American political humorist and columnist

October 23 - Johnny Carson, American comedian and television host (d. 2005)

October 24 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d. 2003)

October 24 - Al Feldstein, American artist and comic book creator

October 27 - Albert Medwin, American inventor

October 31 - John Anthony Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)

November 11 - Jonathan Winters, American actor and comedian

November 18 - Gene Mauch, baseball manager (d. 2005)

November 20 - Robert Kennedy, American politician and Attorney General of the United States (d. 1968)

November 24 - William F. Buckley, Jr., American journalist, author, and commentator

November 24 - Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

November 26 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d. 2003)

November 27 - John Maddox, Welsh science writer

December 1 - Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1998)

December 8 - Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, musician, and actor (d. 1990)

December 11 - Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

December 13 - Dick Van Dyke, American actor

December 14 - Gloria Malgarini, American actress

December 19 - Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter

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William H. Gates, Sr., American attorney, father of Bill Gates

Gildo Massó, Puerto Rican housebuilder.

Godrej Sidhwa, Pakistani theologist.

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January 4 - Nellie Cashman, Irish-born actress (b. 1845)

January 8 - George Bellows, American artist (b. 1882)

January 14 - Camille Decoppet, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1852)

January 31 - George Washington Cable, American writer (b. 1844)

February 2 - Jaap Eden, Dutch speed skater (b. 1873)

February 3 - Oliver Heaviside, English mathematician (b. 1850)

February 4 - Robert Koldewey, German architect and archaeologist (b. 1855)

February 10 - Aristide Bruant, French singer and nightclub owner (b. 1851)

February 18 - James Lane Allen, American writer (b. 1849)

February 24 - Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)

February 25 - Louis Feuillade, French silent film director (b. 1873)

February 28 - Friedrich Ebert, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1871)

March 2 - Luigj Gurakuqi, Albanian freedom fighter (assassinated) (b. 1879)

March 4 - John Ward, baseball player (b. 1860)

March 4 - Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (b. 1854)

March 7 - Georgy Evgenyevich Lvov, Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1861)

March 12 - Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1866)

March 14 - Walter Camp, American football coach (b. 1859)

March 20 - George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India (b. 1859)

March 25 - Tikhon of Moscow, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (b. 1865)

March 28 - Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, British general (b. 1864)

April 14 - John Singer Sargent, American artist (b. 1856)

April 15 - Fritz Haarmann, German serial killer (b. 1879)

April 19 - John Walter Smith, American politician (b. 1845)

April 22 - André Caplet, French composer and conductor (b. 1878)

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May 2 - Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (b. 1848)

May 2 - Antun Branko Simic, Croatian poet (b. 1898)

May 10 - William Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b.1856)

May 12 - Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)

May 14 - H. Rider Haggard, English writer (b. 1856)

May 20 - Elias M. Ammons, Governor of Colorado (b. 1860)

May 22 - John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, British World War I field marshal (b. 1852)

June 1 - Thomas R. Marshall, Vice President of the United States (b. 1854)

June 2 - James Ellsworth, American mine owner and banker (b. 1849)

June 16 - Emmett Hardy, American jazz cornetist (b. 1903)

June 18 - Robert M. La Follette, Sr., American politician (b. 1855)

June 22 - Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849)

June 29 - Christian Michelsen, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1857)

July 1 - Erik Satie, French composer (b. 1866)

July 26 - Antonio Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1888)

July 26 - William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1860)

July 26 - Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1848)

August 6 - Jazz tenor saxophonist Gene Ammons dies in Chicago

August 17 - Ioan Slavici, Romanian writer (b. 1848)

August 25 - Franz Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian field marshal (b. 1852)

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September 7 - René Viviani, Prime Minister of France (b. 1863)

September 16 - Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian mathematician (b. 1888)

September 29 - Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1851)

October 7 - Christy Mathewson, baseball player (b. 1880)

October 31 - Mikhail Frunze, Russian Bolshevik leader (b. 1885)

October 31 - Max Linder, French silent film actor (b. 1883)

November 20 - Alexandra of Denmark, queen of Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1844)

November 25 - King Vajiravudh of Siam (b. 1880)

December 5 - Wladyslaw Reymont, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)

December 9 - Pablo Iglesias, co-founder of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (b. 1850)

December 15 - Battling Siki, Senegalese boxer (b. 1897)

December 19 - Jose Ignacio Quinton, Puerto Rican composer and pianist (b. 1881)

December 21 - Jules Méline, Prime Minister of France (b. 1838)

December 22 - Alice Heine, American wife of Albert I of Monaco (b. 1858)

December 25 - Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877)

December 27 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (b. 1895)

Unknown date: Charles Mangin, French general (b. 1866)

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Physics - James Franck and Gustav Ludwig Hertz

Chemistry - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy

Physiology or Medicine - not awarded

Literature - George Bernard Shaw

Peace - Austen Chamberlain and Charles Gates Dawes

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List of ship launches in 1925