:1925

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Events

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=February=

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=March=

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=April=

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=June=

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=July=

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= August =

{{Main|August 1925}}

  • August 1 – The New Cape Central Railway between Worcester and Voorbaai is incorporated into the South African Railways.Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 189, ref. no. 200954-13
  • August 8 – The Ku Klux Klan, the largest fraternal racist organization in the United States, demonstrates its popularity by holding a parade with an estimated 30,000-35,000 marchers in Washington, D.C.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/17/the-day-30000-white-supremacists-in-kkk-robes-marched-in-the-nations-capital/ The day 30,000 white supremacists in KKK robes marched in the nation's capitalWashington Post].
  • August 14 – The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse in California is completed and goes on line.
  • August 25 – The French complete their evacuation of the Ruhr region of Germany.{{cite web|url=http://www.indiana.edu/~league/1925.htm|title=Chronology 1925|date=2002|website=indiana.edu|access-date=January 2, 2015|archive-date=April 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402163002/http://www.indiana.edu/~league/1925.htm|url-status=dead}}
  • August 31 – Anthropologist Margaret Mead lands in American Samoa to begin nine months of field work that will culminate in her 1928 book Coming of Age in Samoa. The bestselling book will become the first popular anthropological study and will change many attitudes towards tribal peoples.

=September=

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=October=

{{Main|October 1925}}

  • October – The major money forgery and fraud of Alves dos Reis is exposed in Portugal.
  • October 1 – The US Congress grants permission for Gutzon Borglum to begin constructing Mount Rushmore National Memorial on federal land in South Dakota.
  • October 2 – In London, UK, John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image.{{cite book|first=R. W.|last=Burns|title=Television: An International History of the Formative Years|year=1998|location=London|publisher=Institution of Electrical Engineers|isbn=978-0-85296-914-4|page=264}}
  • October 4S2, a Finnish Sokol class torpedo boat, is sunk during a fierce storm near the coast of Pori in the Gulf of Bothnia, taking with her the whole crew of 53.{{cite web|url=http://www.kaslib.fi/MARE/HIST/s2_1.htm|title=Torpedovene S2:n tuho 4.10.1925|first=Antero|last=Honkasalo|publisher=Wayback Machine|date=2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060830015005/http://www.kaslib.fi/MARE/HIST/s2_1.htm|access-date=October 4, 2021|archive-date=August 30, 2006|language=fi}}
  • October 516 – The Locarno Treaties are negotiated.

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=November=

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=December=

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  • New York City becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from London.{{cite web|title=Largest Cities Through History|publisher=About.com|first=Matt|last=Rosenberg|url=http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm|access-date=2008-11-13|archive-date=August 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818124242/http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm|url-status=dead}}{{Unreliable source?|date=November 2008}}
  • Islamic Bektashi Order lodges in Turkey are closed down by order of the country's President, Atatürk, and the leadership moves to Albania.{{cite book|last=Elsie|first=Robert|title=The Albanian Bektashi: history and culture of a Dervish order in the Balkans|publisher=I.B. Tauris|year=2019|isbn=978-1-78831-569-2|publication-place=London|oclc=1108619669|author-link=Robert Elsie}}
  • Lion Feuchtwanger's novel Jud Süß (translated as Jew Süss or Power) is published in Germany.{{cite book|first=Q. D.|last=Leavis|author-link=Q. D. Leavis|title=Fiction and the Reading Public|edition=rev.|location=London|publisher=Chatto & Windus|year=1965}}
  • Ernest Blythe, Minister for Finance in the Irish Free State, arranges an annual government subsidy of £850 for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, making it the first state-supported theatre in the English-speaking world.{{cite book|last=Kavanagh|first=Peter|authorlink=Peter Kavanagh (writer)|title=The Story of the Abbey Theatre|location=New York|publisher=Devin-Adair|year=1950|pages=125–126}}

Births

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=January=

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  • January 1Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and ambassador (d. 2005){{cite book|author=Raph Uwechue|title=Africa Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9EAOAQAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Africa Journal Limited|isbn=978-0-903274-17-3|page=359}}
  • January 4Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross-country skier (d. 2003){{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/veikko-hakulinen| title=Veikko Hakulinen|website=IOC|access-date=March 17, 2021}}
  • January 6John DeLorean, American car maker (d. 2005){{cite book|author=Geoff Tibballs|title=Business blunders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QN5gCpksHZgC|date=1 September 1999|publisher=Robinson|isbn=978-1-84119-011-2|page=282}}
  • January 7
  • Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter (d. 1995){{cite book|title=Deus Loci|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VO0fAQAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Okanagan College|page=3}}
  • Harry Stradling Jr., American cinematographer (d. 2017){{cite news |last1=Barnes |first1=Mike |title=Famed Cinematographer Harry Stradling Jr. Dies at 92 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harry-stradling-jr-dead-way-we-were-little-big-man-cinematographer-was-92-1052315 |accessdate=26 May 2019 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=October 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190526023549/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harry-stradling-jr-dead-way-we-were-little-big-man-cinematographer-was-92-1052315 |archivedate=26 May 2019 |url-status=live }}
  • January 8Bernardo Ruiz, Spanish road cycling racer
  • January 9Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989){{cite book|author=Mike Malloy|title=Lee Van Cleef: A Biographical, Film, and Television Reference|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sIUdAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-0437-7|page=3}}
  • January 10Peter Colotka, Slovak academic, lawyer and politician, Prime Minister 1969–1988 (d. 2019){{cite web|title=Index Co-Cz|url=http://rulers.org/indexc4.html|work=Rulers|accessdate=6 September 2013}}
  • January 12Katherine MacGregor, American actress (d. 2018){{cite web |title=California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGL7-RNQ1 |accessdate=November 14, 2018 |publisher=www.familysearch.org}}
  • January 13
  • Rosemary Murphy, American actress (d. 2014)
  • Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (d. 2000){{cite book|title=Dancing Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pXcnVYn7ysgC|year=2000|publisher=Dancing Times|page=265}}
  • January 14Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970){{cite book | last = Stokes | first = Henry | title = The life and death of Yukio Mishima | publisher = Cooper Square Press Distributed by National Book Network | location = New York Place of publication not identified | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780815410744 | page=37}}
  • January 15
  • August Englas, Estonian wrestler (d. 2017)
  • Ruth Slenczynska, American pianist
  • Ignacio López Tarso, Mexican actor (d. 2023)
  • January 16Shafik Wazzan, 27th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1999)
  • January 17Duane Hanson, American sculptor (d. 1996)
  • January 20Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest, poet and politician (d. 2020)
  • January 24Maria Tallchief, American ballerina (d. 2013){{cite news |title=Maria Tallchief, ballet star who was inspiration for Balanchine, dies at 88 |date=April 12, 2013 |newspaper=The Washington Post |first=Sarah |last=Halzack |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/maria-tallchief-ballet-star-who-was-inspiration-for-balanchine-dies-at-88/2013/04/12/5888f3de-c5dc-11df-94e1-c5afa35a9e59_story.html|access-date=April 14, 2013}}
  • January 25Barbara Carroll, American jazz pianist (d. 2017)
  • January 26
  • Joan Leslie, American actress (d. 2015)
  • Paul Newman, American actor, film director, entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 2008)
  • January 27Sufi Abu Taleb, President of Egypt (d. 2008)
  • January 29Robert W. McCollum, American epidemiologist (d. 2010)
  • January 30Douglas Engelbart, American inventor (d. 2013)
  • January 31
  • Bernardino Rivera Álvarez, Bolivian bishop (d. 2010)
  • Micheline Lannoy, Belgian figure skater (d. 2023)

=February=

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=March=

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File:Pierre Boulez (1968).jpg]]

=April=

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File:Sally Perel (2016) (cropped).jpg]]

=May=

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=June=

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=July=

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=August=

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File:Alija Izetbegovic (cropped).jpg]]

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File:Honor Blackman 2000.jpg]]

File:Juanita Reina, Alginet (País Valencià), 1955 (cropped).jpg]]

File:Katyna Ranieri 1962.jpg]]

=September=

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=October=

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=November=

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=December=

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File:Henri Oreiller 1948.jpg]]

File:Higashikuni Shigeko (1959).jpg]]

File:Sammy Davis Jr. 1972.jpg]]

File:Dick Van Dyke by Gage Skidmore.jpg]]

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Deaths

=January=

=February=

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=March=

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=April=

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=May=

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=June=

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=July=

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=August=

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=September=

=October=

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File:King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) in British General's uniform.jpg]]

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=November=

=December=

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Nobel Prizes

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