WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1925
Find out what all happened February to December 1925

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons. (10. April 1925)

Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. (21. March 1925)

Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee. (25. May 1925)

John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter. (30. October 1925)

Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity. (30. April 1925)

Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic. (26. April 1925)

John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system. (2. October 1925)

The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134 million members. (1. May 1925)

Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published. (14. May 1925)

Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf. (18. July 1925)

Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established. (25. July 1925)

An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.) (14. October 1925)

Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race. (2. February 1925)

Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar. (26. December 1925)

The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee. (21. March 1925)

USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne. (3. September 1925)

The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established. (16. June 1925)

The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance. (28. November 1925)

Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena. (10. June 1925)

Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union. (5. November 1925)