1925 in the United States

1925
in
the United States

Decades:
  • 1900s
  • 1910s
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
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Events from the year 1925 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal Government

Events

January–March

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]

OctoberDecember

Undated

Ongoing

Births

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

B. B. King

October

November

December

Julie Harris

Deaths

See also

References

  1. Jones, Neal T., ed. (1984). A Book of Days for the Literary Year. New York; London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-01332-2.
  2. Johns, Robert H. (2013). "The 1925 Tri-State Tornado Damage Path And Associated Storm System". Electronic Journal of Severe Storms Metereology: 1–33.
  3. 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
  4. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Alaska Precipitation: September
  5. Matt Rosenberg. "Largest Cities Through History". About.com.
  6. Evjen, Victor H. (2014). "The Federal Probation System: The Struggle To Achieve It And Its First 25 Years". Federal Probation: 1–17.
  7. Notice of Tharon Musser' death, Live Design Online, April 19, 2009 Archived April 24, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  8. "Don Stansauk". Database Football. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
  9. "The Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Volume 6". Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Incorporated. 2000.
  10. Fox, Margalit (July 10, 2011). "Jimmy Roselli, Italian-American Singer, Dies at 85". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
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