1925
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years: 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 - 1925 - 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930
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.
- January 21 - Albania declares itself a republic
- January 30 - Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul
- February 21 - The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
- March 4 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcasted on radio.
- 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
- 1925 in music
- Victor, Columbia, HMV phonograph companies switch from old acoustic mechanical recording methods to new electric microphone technology
- 1925 in sports
Births
- January 6 - John DeLorean, auto maker
- January 8 - James Saunders, dramatist
- January 10 - Max Roach, drummer, composer
- February 4 - Russell Hoban, writer
- February 8 - Jack Lemmon, actor and film director (+ 2001)
- January 11 - Grant Tinker, television executive
- January 11 - William Styron, writer
- January 24 - Maria Tallchief, prima ballerina
- January 13 - Gwen Verdon, actress, dancer (+ 2000)
- January 20 - Ernesto Cardenal, theologian, author and politician
- January 21 - Benny Hill, comedian, actor (+ 1992)
- January 26 - Paul Newman, actor
- January 30 - Dorothy Malone, actress
- January 31 - Benjamin Hooks, head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- February 1 - Alfred Grosser, political scientist and publicist
- February 2 - Elaine Stritch, actress
- February 11 - Peter Berger, British Vice-Admiral.
- February 11 - Kim Stanley, actress.
- February 11 - Virginia Johnson, doctor/sexologist.
- February 12 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician
- February 17 - Hal Holbrook, actor
- February 18 - George Kennedy, actor
- February 20 - Robert Altman, film director
- February 20 - Heinz Kluncker, labor union leader
- February 21 - Sam Peckinpah, director (+ 1984)
- February 25 - Edward Gorey, illustrator (+ 2000)
- March 26 - Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor
- April 3 - Tony Benn, British politician
- April 14 - Rod Steiger, actor
- May 19 - Pol Pot - Cambodian dictator (+ 1998)
- May 19 - Malcolm X (+ 1965)
- May 22 - Jean Tinguely, kinetic artist (+ 1991)
- July 6 - Bill Haley, rock and roll musician.
- August 15 - Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist
- October 13 - Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister (1979-1990)
- October 24 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer
- November 20 - Robert Kennedy (+ 1968)
- December 28 - Hildegard Knef, actress, singer and writer
Deaths
- March 20 - George Nathaniel Curzon (Lord Curzon), British statesman
- April 14 - John Singer Sargent, artist
- July 1 - Erik Satie - French composer
- July 26 - William Jennings Bryan - American politician.
- George Washington Cable - American writer
Science
- Modern quantum mechanics is independently formulated by Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrodinger