1925 TimelineThis Year - Commercial picture facsimile radio service across the U.S.
This Year - All-electric phonograph is built.
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This Year - From France, a wide-screen film.
This Year - Wolfgang Pauli forms Excluson Principle.
This Year - Ho Chi Minh founds the Vietnamese Nationalist Party l. Indochinese Communist party.
This Year - Chrysler Corporation founded by Walter Chrysler.
This Year - Milestone Motel, world's first motel, opens in Monterey, California.
This Year - John Dos Passos', Manhattan Transfer is published.
This Year - Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy is published.
This Year - Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway is published.
This Year - Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans is published.
This Year - Franz Kafka's, "Trial" is published posthumously, establishing the fame he didn't have in life. (He died the previous year).
This Year - Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck premieres.
This Year - Emily Dickinson's Complete Poems, published posthumously.
This Year - Serge Voronoff uses monkey gland injections to extend the life of his wealthy and famous patients.
This Year - Louis Armstrong returns to Chicago and forms his own group, Louis Armstrong's Hot Five.
This Year - Aviation ?+ Ford Motor Company buys the Stout Metal Airplane Company, leads to the production of the Ford Trimotor aircraft in
This Year - John B. Watson publishes Behaviorism.
This Year - The Big Parade, Americas first big war movie
This Year - Walter S. Gifford is elected president of AT&T Company.
This Year - Buster Keaton b.oct 04 1895- d.feb 01 1966 in The Seven Chance.
This Year - USA ?+Politics ?+ Frank B. Kellogg b.dec 22 1856-d.dec 21 1937 becomes secretary of state u.1929.
This Year - Alain Locke's anthology, The New Negro is published.
This Year - The Bahaus design school moves into its new headquarters, a signature sleek and boxy building in Dessau designed by the movement's leader Walter Gropius.
This Year - George Balanchine becomes chief choreographer for the "Ballets Russes" in France.
This Year - Fischer-Tropsch reaction, the hydrocarbon synthesis needed for development of synthetic gasoline, is discovered in Germany.
This Year - Physicists W.K. Heisenberg and Niels Bohr develop quantum mechanics, a key concept in modern physics.
This Year - Soviet scientist N.I. Vavilov forwards theory of gene centers.
This Year - The photoelectric cell, which can convert light into electricity, is first demonstrated, in the U.S.
This Year - USA Cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere are first discovered by R.A. Milliken.
This Year - Vladimir Zworykin files for color television patent, which he receives in 1928.
This Year - The Charleston and the cloche become American fads.
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This Year - Jean Arp and El Lissitzky publish The Isms of Art, about contempory art movements.
This Year - Reza Shah Pahlavi deposes the Qajar Dynesty in Persia.
This Year - Greece becomes a republic.
This Year - Western Electric Research Laboratories and part of the engineering department of AT&T are consolidated to form Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.
January01 - Norway's capital Christiania changes name to Oslo.
03 - Mussolini ?+ dissolves Italian parliament and becomes dictator.
05 - Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman gov in USA.
07 - Musical "Big Boy" with Al Jolson premieres in NYC.
08 - 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas.
11 - Franc B Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes on as US Sect of State.
12 - John Howard Lawson's "Processional," premieres in NYC.
16 - Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council.
16 - Gen M Froense replaces Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Defense.
20 - USSR & Japan sign treaty of Peking, Seychelles back to USSR.
24 - Oxford Baggy Pants become college fashion fad
24 - Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden.
24 - Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Is.
30 - Turkish govt throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople.
31 - Premier Ahmed Zogu becomes president of Angola.
February02 - A team of sled dogs, led by the husky Balto, race 650 miles with medicine and save the diphtheria ravaged citizens of isolated, snowed in Nome, Alaska. The story captivates the public.
12 - 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress.
12 - Estonia forbids communist Party.
13 - US Congress makes Surpreme Court appeal more difficult.
16 - Floyd Collins, trapped for 18 days in Sand Cave in Kentucky, dies. A media circus surroundedthe ongoing rescue effort, and supposedly respectable newspapers acted like tabloids with daily cliffhanger updates.
17 - Harold Ross publishes the first issue of The New Yorker magazine, a weekly for "caviar sophisticates" that extolled urban twenties New York City.
21 - 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published.
25 - Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska.
27 - Hitler's resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich.
28 - "Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hit #1.
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March00 - Johnny Torrio leaves Chicago for New York and leaves control of the Chicago mob to Al Capone.
02 - Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage.
02 - Nationwide road numbering system & US shield marker adopted.
04 - President Calvin Coolidge takes the Oath of Office.
04 - Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by US.
04 - Pres Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations.
07 - American Negro Congress organizes.
10 - Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to fly over Demawend mountain, Iran.
12 - Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president, dies at 58.
12 - British govt of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement.
13 - Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution.
14 - Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at 65.
18 - Worst tornadoes in U.S. history kills 700 to more than 800 people in the Midwest.sources vary on numbers
21 - Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens.
23 - Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War, dies at 76.
23 - Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution.
27 - Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92.
30 - Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians.
31 - Radio WOWO-AM, Ft Wayne Indiana begins radio transmission (500 watts).
April00 - POLITICS Adolf Hitler ?+ founds the SS (Schutz Staffel), his protective guard and eventually the elite police corps of the Nazis.
01 - 1st transmission of Danish state radio.
03 - Great Britain goes back to gold standard.
10 - F Scott Fitzgerald ?+*'s novel The Great Gatsby ?+* is published by Scribners. It is acclaimed by critics, but is not a popular success in its day.
15 - German serial killer Fritz Haarmann, "The Butcher of Hanover," who murdered at least 26 young boys and sold the flesh of some as meat, is executed by decapitation.
17 - NY Yankee Babe Ruth has ulcer surgery.
18 - World's fair opens in Chicago.
26 - POLITICS Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg is elected Chancellor of Germany.
28 - Kurd rebels surrender to Turkish army. 29 - Netherlands returns to gold standard.
May00 - Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald ?+* meet for first time at Paris' Dingo Bar.
02 - Kezar Stadium in SF's Golden Gate Park opens.
04 - League of Nations ?+ conference on arms control & poison gas usage.
05 - John Scopes + arrested in Tenessee for teaching evolution. Clarence Darrow of the ACLU defends Scopes
30 - Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy.
June02 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak.
06 - Walter Percy Chrysler founds Chrysler Corp.
13 - Image of revolving model windmill is transmitted from Anacostia, Maryland to Washington, D.C. in first public demonstration of a television system,developed by Charles Francis Jenkins.
17 - Nations agree to ban the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons in war. Agreement is signed at an international arms control and trade convention in Geneva.
23 - British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers.
July01 - A crowd of 4,000 turns out at Mather Field to watch the first transcontinental airmail plane land.
04 - 44 die when Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses.
10 - USSR's official news agency TASS forms.
18 - Hitler ?+ publishes volume 1 of Mein Kampf ?+*.
18 - First comprehensive art deco + fair opens in Paris.
21 - John Scopes + found guilty of teaching evolution.
31 - Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England.
August03 - Indianapolis driver convicted of manslaughter; sentenced to spend one hour with deceased
04 - US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation.
08 - 40,000 Klansmen march on Washington 14 - Mount Rushmore 1st proposed.
15 - Norway annexes Spitsbergen.
16 - Chaplin's film The Gold Rush premiers
25 - Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem NY).
September03 - The navy dirigible Shenandoah + crashes in Ohio and kills 14 airmen.
13 - 1st US University for Blacks, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans.
30 - Harold Lloyd's comedy classic film The Freshman premieres.
October16 - Peace accord of Locarno signed (Rhine Pact).
19 - Italian army takes Somalia.
25 - Rightist German ministers disavows Treaty of Locarno.
27 - Duke proclaimed richest university
27 - Water skis patented by Fred Waller.
November00 - India Gandhi commences writing his autobiography, The Story of my Experiments with Truth ?+*.
00 - U.S. expatriate entertainer Josephine Baker takes the stage for the Revue Negre at Paris' prestigious Theatre des Champs-Elysees. Her risque' "jungle" numbers would become the rage of Paris, and soon thereafter all of Europe.
00 - Flapper dress becomes tremendously popular
05 - Mussolini ?+ disbands Italian socialist parties.
11 - Louis Armstrong records 1st of Hot Five & Hot Seven recordings.
11 - Robert Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays.
12 - US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts.
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16 - German film director E.A. Dupont's expressionistic classic Variety premieres.
16 - American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY).
20 - Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain, dies at 80.
22 - Sports ?+ University of Illinois football star Red Grange ?+ turns pro, joining the Chicago Bears.
27 - German Parliament ratifies treaty of Locarno.
28 - Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville Tn.
December00 - Communist Party of the Soviet Union announces plans to change from agricultural to industrial society.
01 - Treaty of Locarno signed.
07 - Noel Coward's "Easy Virtue," premieres in NYC.
11 - Pope Pius XI ?+ publishes encyclical Quas Primas.
26 - Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar.
29 - The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association is organized.
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