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  • Shanghai, China
    1925
    First Indochina War

    Phan Bội Châu was captured

    Shanghai, China
    1925

    In 1925, Phan Bội Châu was captured by French agents in Shanghai and spirited to Vietnam.




  • Kraljevica, Croatia
    1925
    Josip Broz Tito

    Moved to Kraljevica

    Kraljevica, Croatia
    1925

    In 1925, the now unemployed Broz moved to Kraljevica on the Adriatic coast, where he started working at a shipyard to further the aims of the CPY.




  • Al Hoceima, Morocco
    1925
    Francisco Franco

    First wave of troops ashore at Al Hoceima

    Al Hoceima, Morocco
    1925

    Promoted to colonel, Franco led the first wave of troops ashore at Al Hoceima in 1925.




  • U.S.
    1925
    Lucky Luciano

    $12 million wealth

    U.S.
    1925

    By 1925, Luciano was grossing over $12 million a year. He had a net income of around $4 million each year after subtracting the costs of bribing politicians and police.




  • Tokyo, Japan
    1925
    Hirohito

    The Rank of Colonel in the army

    Tokyo, Japan
    1925

    In 1925 he was promoted to army Colonel and Navy Captain.




  • Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    1925
    Louis Armstrong

    Back to Chicago

    Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    1925

    In 1925, Armstrong returned to Chicago largely at the insistence of Lil, who wanted to expand his career and his income.




  • Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
    1925
    Ho Chi Minh

    Ho organized "Youth Education Classes"

    Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
    1925

    In 1925–1926, he organized "Youth Education Classes" and occasionally gave socialist lectures to Vietnamese revolutionary young people living in Canton at the Whampoa Military Academy. These young people would become the seeds of a new revolutionary, pro-communist movement in Vietnam several years later. According to William Duiker.


  • Warsaw, Poland
    1925
    Marie Curie

    Laying The Foundations For Warsaw's Radium Institute

    Warsaw, Poland
    1925

    In 1925 she visited Poland to participate in a ceremony laying the foundations for Warsaw's Radium Institute.


  • England
    1925
    John Maynard Keynes

    Marriage

    England
    1925

    In 1921, Keynes wrote that he had fallen "very much in love" with Lydia Lopokova, a well-known Russian ballerina and one of the stars of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. In the early years of his courtship, he maintained an affair with a younger man, Sebastian Sprott, in tandem with Lopokova, but eventually chose Lopokova exclusively. They were married in 1925.


  • Florida, U.S.
    1925
    Incandescent light bulb

    Marvin Pipkin patented a process for frosting the inside of Lamp bulbs without weakening them

    Florida, U.S.
    1925

    In 1925, Marvin Pipkin, an American chemist, patented a process for frosting the inside of lamp bulbs without weakening them.


  • Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    1925
    Howard Hughes: The Aviator

    Enthusiastic golfer

    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    1925

    From a young age, Hughes became a proficient and enthusiastic golfer. He often scored near-par figures, played the game to a two-three handicap during his 20s, and for a time aimed for a professional golf career. He golfed frequently with top players, including Gene Sarazen. Hughes rarely played competitively and gradually gave up his passion for the sport to pursue other interests. Hughes used to play golf every afternoon at LA courses including the Lakeside Golf Club, Wilshire Country Club, or the Bel-Air Country Club. Partners included George Von Elm or Ozzie Carlton. After Hughes hurt himself in the late 1920s, his golfing tapered off, and after his F-11 crash, Hughes was unable to play at all.


  • Germany
    1925
    Cameras

    Leica I

    Germany
    1925

    Oskar Barnack, who was in charge of research and development at Leitz, decided to investigate using a 35 mm cine film for still cameras while attempting to build a compact camera capable of making high-quality enlargements. He built his prototype 35 mm camera (Ur-Leica) around 1913, though further development was delayed for several years by World War I.


  • Morocco
    1925
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle disapproved to take command in Morocco

    Morocco
    1925

    De Gaulle disapproved of Pétain's decision to take command in Morocco in 1925.


  • Germany
    Sunday Jan 4, 1925
    Adolf Hitler

    A Meeting with the Prime Minister of Bavaria

    Germany
    Sunday Jan 4, 1925

    In a meeting with the Prime Minister of Bavaria Heinrich Held on 4 January 1925, Hitler agreed to respect the state's authority and promised that he would seek political power only through the democratic process.


  • France
    1925
    Charles de Gaulle

    Joseph Paul-Boncour the first political patron

    France
    1925

    In 1925 de Gaulle began to cultivate Joseph Paul-Boncour, his first political patron.


  • Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, U.S.
    1925
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower attended the Command and General Staff College

    Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, U.S.
    1925

    On Conner's recommendation, in 1925–26 he attended the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he graduated first in a class of 245 officers.


  • Germany
    Feb, 1925
    Heinrich Himmler

    First role under Hitler

    Germany
    Feb, 1925

    Himmler was Placed in charge of the party office in Lower Bavaria by Strasser from late 1924, he was responsible for integrating the area's membership with the NSDAP under Hitler when the party was re-founded in February 1925.


  • U.S.
    Monday Feb 2, 1925
    Anna May Wong

    Forty Winks

    U.S.
    Monday Feb 2, 1925

    Wong was singled out for critical praise in a manipulative Oriental vamp role in the film Forty Winks.


  • Germany
    Monday Feb 16, 1925
    Adolf Hitler

    NSDAP returned

    Germany
    Monday Feb 16, 1925

    The meeting paved the way for the ban on the NSDAP to be lifted on 16 February.


  • Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
    Feb, 1925
    Marcus Garvey

    Imprisoned

    Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
    Feb, 1925

    In early 1925, the U.S. Court of Appeal upheld the original court decision. Garvey was in Detroit at the time and was arrested while aboard a train back to New York City. In February he was taken to the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary and incarcerated there. Imprisoned, he was made to carry out cleaning tasks. On one occasion he was reprimanded for insolence towards the white prison officers. There, he became increasingly ill with chronic bronchitis and lung infections; two years into his imprisonment he would be hospitalized with influenza.


  • Germany
    Friday Feb 27, 1925
    Adolf Hitler

    Barred from public speaking

    Germany
    Friday Feb 27, 1925

    However, after an inflammatory speech he gave on 27 February, Hitler was barred from public speaking by the Bavarian authorities, a ban that remained in place until 1927.


  • China
    Thursday Mar 12, 1925
    Chinese Civil War

    Sun's Death

    China
    Thursday Mar 12, 1925

    However, after Sun died in 1925, the KMT split into left- and right-wing movements. KMT members worried that the Soviets were trying to destroy the KMT from inside using the CPC. The CPC then began movements in opposition of the Northern Expedition, passing a resolution against it at a party meeting.


  • Selangor, Malaysia
    Tuesday Mar 17, 1925
    St. Patrick's Day

    St Patrick's Society of Selangor

    Selangor, Malaysia
    Tuesday Mar 17, 1925

    In Malaysia, the St Patrick's Society of Selangor, founded in 1925, organizes a yearly St Patrick's Ball, described as the biggest St Patrick's Day celebration in Asia. Guinness Anchor Berhad also organizes 36 parties across the country in places like the Klang Valley, Penang, Johor Bahru, Malacca, Ipoh, Kuantan, Kota Kinabalu, Miri, and Kuching.


  • (Missouri–Illinois–Indiana), U.S.
    Wednesday Mar 18, 1925
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    The Tri-State Tornado

    (Missouri–Illinois–Indiana), U.S.
    Wednesday Mar 18, 1925

    The Tri-State Tornado of Wednesday, March 18, 1925 was the deadliest tornado in United States history. It was also the most exceptional tornado during a major outbreak of at least 12 known significant tornadoes, spanning a large portion of the Midwestern and Southern United States. This one tornado alone inflicted 695 fatalities, more than twice as many as the second deadliest, the Great Natchez, Mississippi Tornado.


  • England, United Kingdom
    Apr, 1925
    Winston Churchill

    Churchill controversially albeit reluctantly restored the gold standard in his first budget at its 1914 parity

    England, United Kingdom
    Apr, 1925

    In April 1925, Churchill controversially albeit reluctantly restored the gold standard in his first budget at its 1914 parity against the advice of some leading economists including John Maynard Keynes. The return to gold is held to have caused deflation and resultant unemployment with a devastating impact on the coal industry.


  • U.S.
    1925
    Anna May Wong

    Wong joined a group of serial stars on a tour of the vaudeville circuits

    U.S.
    1925

    In early 1925 Wong joined a group of serial stars on a tour of the vaudeville circuits; when the tour proved to be a failure, Wong and the rest of the group returned to Hollywood.


  • Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
    Tuesday May 19, 1925
    Malcolm X

    Birth

    Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
    Tuesday May 19, 1925

    Malcolm Little was born May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska.


  • Shibuya Station, Tokyo, Japan
    Thursday May 21, 1925
    Hachikō

    The professor's Death

    Shibuya Station, Tokyo, Japan
    Thursday May 21, 1925

    Ueno would commute daily to work, and Hachikō would leave the house to greet him at the end of each day at the nearby Shibuya Station. The pair continued the daily routine until May 21, 1925, when Ueno did not return. The professor had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, while he was giving a lecture to his class, and died without ever returning to the train station in which Hachikō waited.


  • Shibuya Station, Tokyo, Japan
    Friday May 22, 1925
    Hachikō

    The Wait Starts

    Shibuya Station, Tokyo, Japan
    Friday May 22, 1925

    Each day, for the next nine years, nine months and fifteen days, Hachikō awaited Ueno's return, appearing precisely when the train was due at the station.


  • Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Monday Jun 1, 1925
    Howard Hughes: The Aviator

    Marriage

    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Monday Jun 1, 1925

    Hughes withdrew from Rice University shortly after his father's death. On June 1, 1925, he married Ella Botts Rice, daughter of David Rice and Martha Lawson Botts of Houston, and great-niece of William Marsh Rice, for whom Rice University was named. They moved to Los Angeles, where he hoped to make a name for himself as a filmmaker.


  • Paris, France
    1925
    Eiffel Tower

    Illuminated signs for Citroën adorned three of the tower's sides

    Paris, France
    1925

    From 1925 to 1934, illuminated signs for Citroën adorned three of the tower's sides, making it the tallest advertising space in the world at the time.


  • Paris, France
    1925
    Eiffel Tower

    The con artist Victor Lustig "sold" the tower for scrap metal

    Paris, France
    1925

    On two separate but related occasions in 1925, the con artist Victor Lustig "sold" the tower for scrap metal.


  • France
    Wednesday Jul 1, 1925
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle worked "pen officer"

    France
    Wednesday Jul 1, 1925

    From 1 July 1925, he worked for Pétain (as part of the Maison Pétain), largely as a "pen officer" (ghostwriter). De Gaulle disapproved of Pétain's decision to take command in Morocco in 1925 (he was later known to remark that "Marshal Pétain was a great man.


  • Lewiston, Idaho,U.S.
    Monday Jul 13, 1925
    Walt Disney

    Marriage

    Lewiston, Idaho,U.S.
    Monday Jul 13, 1925

    Disney married Lillian Bounds in July 1925, at her brother's house in her hometown of Lewiston, Idaho. The marriage was generally happy, according to Lillian, although according to Disney's biographer Neal Gabler she did not "accept Walt's decisions meekly or his status unquestionably, and she admitted that he was always telling people 'how henpecked he is'." Lillian had little interest in films or the Hollywood social scene and she was, in the words of the historian Steven Watts, "content with household management and providing support for her husband".


  • Germany
    1925
    Heinrich Himmler

    Joining The Schutzstaffel

    Germany
    1925

    Himmler joined the Schutzstaffel (SS) as an SS-Führer (SS-Leader); his SS number was 168.


  • Weimar Republic (Present Day Germany)
    1925
    Gustav Stresemann

    Proposing an agreement with France

    Weimar Republic (Present Day Germany)
    1925

    In 1925, when he first proposed an agreement with France, he made it clear that in doing so he intended to "gain a free hand to secure a peaceful change of the borders in the East and concentrate on a later incorporation of German territories in the East".


  • Poland
    1925
    Gustav Stresemann

    Trade war against Poland

    Poland
    1925

    In the same year, while Poland was in a state of political and economic crisis, Stresemann began a trade war against the country. Stresemann hoped for an escalation of the Polish crisis, which would enable Germany to regain territories ceded to Poland after World War I, and he wanted Germany to gain a larger market for its products there. So Stresemann refused to engage in any international cooperation that would have "prematurely" restabilized the Polish economy.


  • Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
    Wednesday Oct 7, 1925
    Juan Trippe

    Colonial Air Transport

    Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
    Wednesday Oct 7, 1925

    Once again tapping his wealthy friends from Yale, Trippe invested in an airline named Colonial Air Transport, which was awarded a new route and an airmail contract on October 7, 1925.


  • Grantham, Lincolnshire, England
    Tuesday Oct 13, 1925
    Margaret Thatcher

    Birth

    Grantham, Lincolnshire, England
    Tuesday Oct 13, 1925

    Margaret Hilda Roberts was born on 13 October 1925, in Grantham, Lincolnshire.


  • Petrich, Tsardom of Bulgaria
    Monday Oct 19, 1925
    League of Nations

    Incident at Petrich

    Petrich, Tsardom of Bulgaria
    Monday Oct 19, 1925

    Incident at Petrich was a Greek–Bulgarian crisis in 1925 that resulted in a brief invasion of Bulgaria by Greece near the border town of Petrich after the killing of a Greek captain and a sentry by Bulgarian soldiers. The incident ended after a decision by the League of Nations.


  • Germany
    Oct, 1925
    Weimar Republic

    Treaty of Locarno

    Germany
    Oct, 1925

    In October 1925 the Treaty of Locarno was signed by Germany, France, Belgium, Britain and Italy; it recognised Germany's borders with France and Belgium.


  • Barcelona, Spain
    Saturday Nov 14, 1925
    Salvador Dali

    First Solo Exhibition

    Barcelona, Spain
    Saturday Nov 14, 1925

    Dalí held his first solo exhibition at Galeries Dalmau in Barcelona, from 14 to 27 November 1925.


  • Batavia, Dutch East Indies (Present-Day Jakarta, Indonesia)
    1925
    Audrey Hepburn

    Ella has been divorced

    Batavia, Dutch East Indies (Present-Day Jakarta, Indonesia)
    1925

    Ella and Hendrik had two sons, Jonkheer Arnoud Robert Alexander Quarles van Ufford (1920–1979) and Jonkheer Ian Edgar Bruce Quarles van Ufford (1924–2010), before divorcing in 1925.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Tuesday Dec 1, 1925
    Gustav Stresemann

    Locarno Treaties

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Tuesday Dec 1, 1925

    Stresemann said that Germany alone should not make sacrifices for peace; European countries should cede colonies to Germany; the disarmament control commission should leave Germany; the Anglo-French occupation of the Rhineland should be ended; and Britain and France should disarm as Germany had done. The Treaties were signed in October 1925 at Locarno. Germany officially recognized the post-World War I western border for the first time, and was guaranteed peace with France, and promised admission to the League of Nations and evacuation of the last Allied occupation troops from the Rhineland.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    1925
    Mother's Day

    Protesting

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    1925

    Jarvis protested this idea (the companies had misinterpreted and exploited the idea of Mother's Day) at a meeting of American War Mothers in 1925.


  • Hungary
    1925
    Mother's Day

    Mother's Day (Hungary)

    Hungary
    1925

    It was first celebrated in 1925 by the Hungarian Red Cross Youth.


  • Italy
    1925
    Benito Mussolini

    Mussolini "the leader"

    Italy
    1925

    From 1925, Mussolini styled himself Il Duce (the leader).


  • Italy
    Thursday Dec 24, 1925
    Benito Mussolini

    Mussolini's formal title changed

    Italy
    Thursday Dec 24, 1925

    A law passed on 24 December 1925—Christmas Eve for the largely Roman Catholic country—changed Mussolini's formal title from "President of the Council of Ministers" to "Head of the Government", although he was still called "Prime Minister" by most non-Italian news sources.


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