1925

Events

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.
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 were viewed by representatives of the Bureau of Standards, the U.S. Navy, the Commerce Department, and others. Jenkins called this "the first public demonstration of radiovision"
Modern revival of ancient Latvian mythology begins, called Dievturiba
Scopes Trial testing a law favouring Creationism over Evolution.
Sweden decides on extensive disarmament.
Spanish and French expeditionary forces landing at Alhucemas during the war of the Rif.
Vladimir Zworykin takes out the first patent for colour television

Art, Culture & Fashion

1925 in film
1925 in literature
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
- In the American Grain by William Carlos Williams
- Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
- An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
1925 in music
- Victor, Columbia, HMV phonograph companies switch from old acoustic mechanical recording methods to new electric microphone technology
1925 in sports

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