WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1925
Find out what all happened February to August 1925

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

The first Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer is held at the University of Toronto, Canada. (1. May 1925)

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

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

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

The Tri-State Tornado hit the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people. (18. March 1925)

1925 serum run to Nome: The serum arrives in Nome, Alaska, with Balto being the lead dog of the last team. (15. February 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)

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: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. (5. May 1925)

Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. (10. July 1925)

May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers. (30. May 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)

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

The government of South Africa declares Afrikaans an official language. (5. May 1925)

The New Yorker publishes its first issue. (21. February 1925)

Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out. (5. August 1925)

Sir Malcolm Campbell, father of Donald Campbell, becomes the first man to break the 150 mph (241 km/h) land barrier at Pendine Sands in Wales. He drove a Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h). (21. July 1925)

The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America. (28. February 1925)

Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins. (9. March 1925)