1925 in the United States
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Events from the year 1925 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal Government
- President: Calvin Coolidge (R-Massachusetts)
- Vice President: vacant (until March 4), Charles G. Dawes (R-Illinois) (starting March 4)
- Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (Ohio)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Frederick H. Gillett (R-Massachusetts) (until March 4), Nicholas Longworth (R-Ohio) (starting December 7)
- Senate Majority Leader: vacant (until March 4), Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) (starting March 4)
- Congress: 68th (until March 4), 69th (starting March 4)
Events
January–March
- January 5 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes Governor of Wyoming, the first female governor in the United States. Twelve days later, Miriam A. Ferguson becomes first female governor of Texas.
- January 27 – February 1 – The 1925 serum run to Nome (the "Great Race of Mercy") relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. territory of Alaska, to combat an epidemic.
- February 21 – First issue of The New Yorker magazine is published by Gaven Sydnes.[1]
- March 4 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio.
- March 15 – The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity (original name "The Aztecs") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teacher's College in Conway, Arkansas (now the University of Central Arkansas).
- March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado rampages through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana. The storm's damage path was indicated at 378 km (235 mi).[2]
- March 21 – Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signs the Butler Act, prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the state's public schools.
- March 31 – Radio station WOWO in Ft. Wayne, Indiana begins broadcasting.
April–June
- April 1 – Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leave Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states.
- April 10 – F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
- April 18 – University of Miami chartered in Coral Gables, Florida.
- May 5 – Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee, biology teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
- May 8 – African American Tom Lee rescues 32 people from the M.E. Norman, a steamboat sinking in the Mississippi.
- 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, D.C. The images are viewed by representatives of the National Bureau of Standards, the U.S. Navy, the Department of Commerce, and others. Jenkins calls this "the first public demonstration of radiovision".
- June 27 – The 6.6 Mw Montana earthquake affects the central part of the state with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). Because the affected area is mostly rural, financial losses are limited to $150,000, though the damage is considered severe.[3]
- June 29 – The 6.8 Mw Santa Barbara earthquake affects the central coast of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), destroying much of downtown Santa Barbara, California and leaving 13 people dead.
July–September
- 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 21 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
- August 14 – The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
- September 3 – The U.S. Navy dirigible Shenandoah breaks up in a squall line over Ohio en route to Scottfield, St. Louis; 14 crewmen are killed.
- September 1 to 30 – In the first year for which statewide data are reliable, this month with a statewide average water equivalent of 7.54 inches (191.5 mm) remains Alaska’s wettest calendar month on record.[4]
October–December
- November 28 – The weekly country music radio program Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "WSM Barn Dance".
- December 16 – Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity, is founded at Lafayette College.
Undated
- New York City becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from London.[5]
- The motel concept originates with the Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo, California, originally called the Milestone Mo-Tel, constructed by Arthur Heineman.
- The National Football League adds 5 teams: the New York Giants, Detroit Panthers, Providence Steam Roller, a new Canton Bulldogs team, and the Pottsville Maroons.
- Calvin Coolidge signs into law the act establishing a U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services System.[6]
Ongoing
- Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
- U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
- Prohibition (1919–1933)
- Roaring Twenties (1920–1929)
Births
- January 11 – William Styron, writer (died 2006)
- January 17 – Duane Hanson, sculptor (died 1996)
- January 26
- Joan Leslie, actress (died 2015)
- Paul Newman, film actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist (died 2008)
- January 29
- Harold C. Agerholm, soldier, posthumous Medal of Honor recipient (killed in action 1944 in the Mariana Islands)
- Robert W. McCollum, epidemiologist (died 2010)
- January 30
- Douglas Engelbart, pioneer in human–computer interaction (died 2013)
- Dorothy Malone, screen actress (died 2018)
- February 3 – Shelley Berman, comedian (died 2017)
- February 8 – Jack Lemmon, actor and film director (died 2001)
- February 18 – George Kennedy, actor (died 2016)
- February 22 – Edward Gorey, illustrator and writer (died 2000)
- March 25 – Flannery O'Connor, author (died 1964)
- April 14
- Gene Ammons, jazz saxophonist (died 1974)
- Rod Steiger, film actor (died 2002)
- April 18 – Bob Hastings, actor (died 2014)
- April 19 – Hugh O'Brian, actor (died 2016)
- May 1 – Scott Carpenter, astronaut (died 2013)
- May 11 – William Glasser, American psychiatrist and author (died 2013)
- May 12 – Yogi Berra, baseball player (died 2015)
- May 19 – Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little, African American Muslim minister and human rights activist (killed 1965)
- June 3 – Tony Curtis, film actor (died 2010)
- June 6 – Fitzhugh L. Fulton, pilot (died 2015)
- June 7
- John Biddle, yachting cinematographer (died 2008)
- Robert Smithdas, deaf-blind teacher, advocate and author (died 2014)
- June 8
- Barbara Bush, born Barbara Pierce, First Lady of the United States (died 2018)
- Del Ennis, American baseball player and coach (died 1996)
- Eddie Gaedel, American baseball player with dwarfism (died 1961)
- June 14 – Pierre Salinger, U.S. Senator from California in 1964 (died 2004)
- June 17 – Alexander Shulgin, psychopharmacologist (died 2014)
- June 25 – Robert Venturi, architect
- June 27
- Fiora Contino, opera conductor (died 2017)
- Doc Pomus, born Jerome Solon Felder, songwriter (died 1991)
- July 4 – Cathy Berberian, mezzo-soprano and composer (died 1983)
- July 6 – Bill Haley, pop singer (died 1981)
- July 11 – Mattiwilda Dobbs, African American coloratura soprano (died 2015)
- August 12 – Dale Bumpers, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1975 to 1981 (died 2016)
- August 19 – Frederic Richards, biochemist and biophysicist (died 2009)
- August 29 – Earle Brucker, Jr., baseball player (died 2009)
- September 13 – Mel Tormé, singer (died 1999)
- September 16 – B.B. King, African American blues guitarist (died 2015)
- September 19 – Franklin Sousley, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima (killed in action 1945)
- October 3 – Gore Vidal, writer (died 2012)
- October 5
- Gail Davis, actress (died 1997)
- Robert B. Morgan, U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1975 to 1981 (died 2016)
- October 7 – Mildred Earp, baseball player
- October 11 – Elmore Leonard, novelist (died 2013)
- October 13 – Lenny Bruce, comic (died 1966)
- October 16 – Daniel J. Evans, U.S. Senator from Washington from 1983 to 1989
- October 22 – Robert Rauschenberg, painter (died 2008)
- October 23 – Johnny Carson, television host (died 2005)
- October 24 – Al Feldstein, comic book artist (died 2014)
- October 27 – Warren Christopher, diplomat (died 2011)
- October 29 – Dominick Dunne, writer (died 2009)
- November 11 – Jonathan Winters, actor and comedian (died 2013)
- November 15 – Howard Baker, U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1967 to 1985 (died 2014)
- November 17 – Rock Hudson, born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., film actor (died 1985)
- November 18 – Gene Mauch, baseball manager (died 2005)
- November 20
- Kaye Ballard, comedian
- Robert F. Kennedy, politician and Attorney General of the United States (assassinated 1968)
- Mark Miller, actor
- November 23 – Maria di Gerlando, operatic soprano (died 2010)
- November 24 – William F. Buckley, Jr., journalist (died 2008)
- November 26 – Eugene Istomin, classical pianist (died 2003)
- November 30 – Maryon Pittman Allen, U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1978
- December 1 – Martin Rodbell, biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1998)
- December 2 – Julie Harris, actress (died 2013)
- December 8 – Sammy Davis Jr., African American singer, dancer, musician and actor (died 1990)
- December 11 – Paul Greengard, neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- December 13 – Dick Van Dyke, actor, singer, dancer and comedian (The Dick Van Dyke Show)
- December 15 – Kasey Rogers, actress (died 2006)
- December 19 – Robert B. Sherman, songwriter (died 2012)
- December 21 – Dorothy Kamenshek, baseball player (died 2010)
- December 25 – Dorothy Mueller, baseball player (died 1985)
Deaths
- January 8 – George Bellows, realist painter (born 1882)
- January 22 – Fanny Bullock Workman, geographer, writer and mountain climber (born 1859)
- January 26 – Caspar F. Goodrich, admiral (born 1847)
- January 31 – George Washington Cable, novelist (born 1844)
- February 1 – Ellen Hamlin, Second Lady of the United States as wife of Hannibal Hamlin (born 1835)
- February 7 – Edward Jobson, actor (born 1860)
- February 18 – James Lane Allen, fiction writer (born 1849)
- February 23 – Samuel Berger, Olympic boxer (born 1884)
- March 4 – John Montgomery Ward, baseball player (born 1860)
- March 10 – Myer Prinstein, Olympic long jumper (born 1878 in Poland)
- March 13 – Lucille Ricksen, silent film actress (born 1910)
- March 14 – Walter Camp, American football coach (born 1859)
- March 30 – William J. McConnell, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1890 to 1891 (born 1839)
- April 13 – Elwood Haynes, inventor (born 1857)
- April 14 – John Singer Sargent, portrait painter (born 1856 in Florence; died in London)
- April 19 – John Walter Smith, politician (born 1845)
- May 12 – Amy Lowell, poet (born 1874)
- May 15 – Nelson A. Miles, general (born 1839)
- May 20 – Elias M. Ammons, Governor of Colorado (born 1860)
- May 25 – Henry W. Petrie, popular music composer (born 1857)
- June 1 – Thomas R. Marshall, 28th Vice President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 (born 1854)
- June 2 – James Ellsworth, mineowner and banker (born 1849)
- June 16 – Emmett Hardy, jazz cornet player (born 1903; TB)
- June 18 – Robert M. La Follette Sr., politician (born 1855)
- July 7 – Clarence Hudson White photographer (born 1871)
- July 26 – William Jennings Bryan, lawyer and politician (born 1860)
- July 29 – Mark Fenton, silent film actor (born 1866)
- August 4 – Charles W. Clark, baritone (born 1865)
- August 5 – Jennie Lee, silent film actress (born 1848)
- August 7 – George Gray, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1885 to 1899 (born 1840)
- August 16 – Edna Hicks, blues singer (born 1895; killed in fire)
- August 17 – Junius George Groves, slave-born potato farmer (born 1859)
- September 13 – Emily Elizabeth Holman, architect (born 1854)
- September 17 – Carl Eytel, painter of the Southwest (born 1862 in Württemberg)
- October 7 – Christy Mathewson, baseball player (born 1880)
- October 10 – James Buchanan Duke, tobacco and electric power industrialist (born 1856)
- November 1 – Lester Cuneo, actor (born 1888)
- November 3 – Lucile McVey, silent film comedy actress (born 1890)
- November 21 – Robert Wrenn, tennis player (born 1873)
- December 7 – James O. Barrows, actor (born 1855)
- December 8 – Marguerite Marsh, silent film actress (born 1888)
- December 22 – Mary Thurman, silent film actress (born 1895)
- December 28 – Raymond P. Rodgers, admiral (born 1849)
- December 31 – J. Gordon Edwards director (born 1867 in Canada)
- Emma Curtis Hopkins, spiritual writer (born 1849)
See also
References
- ↑ Jones, Neal T., ed. (1984). A Book of Days for the Literary Year. New York; London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-01332-2.
- ↑ Johns, Robert H. (2013). "The 1925 Tri-State Tornado Damage Path And Associated Storm System". Electronic Journal of Severe Storms Metereology: 1–33.
- ↑ Stover, C. W.; Coffman, J. L. (1993), Seismicity of the United States, 1568–1989 (Revised) – U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1527, United States Government Printing Office, pp. 268–270
- ↑ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Alaska Precipitation: September
- ↑ Matt Rosenberg. "Largest Cities Through History". About.com.
- ↑ Evjen, Victor H. (2014). "The Federal Probation System: The Struggle To Achieve It And Its First 25 Years". Federal Probation: 1–17.
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