Top News Stories from 1925
World Events
World Statistics
Population: 4.378 billion
population by decade Nobel Peace Prize: Sir Austen Chamberlain (UK) and Charles G. Dawes (US)
More World Statistics... - Locarno conferences seek to secure European peace by mutual guarantees.
- John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor, transmits human features by television.
- Adolf Hitler publishes Volume I of Mein Kampf.
U.S. Events
U.S. Statistics
President: Calvin Coolidge
Vice President: Charles G. Dawes
Population: 115,829,000
More U.S. Statistics... - Nellie Tayloe Ross takes office as governor of Wyoming (Jan. 5). She is the first woman governor in U.S. history.
- Tennessee schoolteacher John T. Scopes is arrested (May 5) for teaching the theory of evolution, forbidden by state law.
- Worst tornado in U.S. history hit Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana: 689 deaths.
- Al Capone takes over the Chicago bootlegging racket.
Economics
Federal spending: $2.92 billion
Consumer Price Index: $17.5
Unemployment: 3.2%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World Series
Pittsburgh d. Washington (4-3)Stanley Cup
Victoria (WCHL) d. MontrealWimbledon
Women: Suzanne Lenglen d. J. Fry (6-2 6-0)Men: Rene Lacoste d. J. Borotra (6-3 6-3 4-6 8-6)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Flying EbonyNCAA Football Champions
Alabama (CFRA, HF) (10-0-0) & Dartmouth (DS) (8-0-0)Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes Fiction:
So Big, Edna Ferber
Drama: They Knew What They Wanted, Sidney Howard
Nobel Prize for Literature: George Bernard Shaw (Ireland)
Miss America: Fay Lamphier (CA)
More Entertainment Awards... Events
- Radio's The Smith Family introduces the soap opera format.
- Sergei Eisenstein makes Potemkin, a revolutionary portrait of mutiny aboard a battleship. In the hands of Eisenstein, montage is raised to the highest structural role in filmmaking, serving as the unifying element of the medium.
- Ben-Hur, costing a record-setting $3.95 million to produce, is released.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: In 1926, the 1925 prize was awarded to Richard Zsigmondy (Germany), for work on the heterogeneous nature of colloid solutions
Physics: James Franck and Gustav Hertz (Germany), for discovery of laws governing impact of electrons upon atoms
Physiology or Medicine: None awarded
More Nobel Prizes in 1998... - Vitamin A deficiency is shown to cause night blindness.
- John Baird transmits the first television image in London.
- Leica markets Oscar Barnack's 35mm camera.
