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1925 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2026. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1925 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1925

• January 3, 1925 – Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
• January 24, 1925 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Ox in Chinese astrology.
• May 1, 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.
• May 5, 1925 – The government of South Africa declares Afrikaans an official language.
• May 25, 1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in Tennessee.
• August 9, 1925 – A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India
• September 3, 1925 – USS Shenandoah, 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.
• October 2, 1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
• November 5, 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.
• December 12, 1925 – The Majlis of Iran votes to crown Reza Khan as the new Shah of Iran, starting the Pahlavi dynasty.

Who Were Born On 1925?

• February 28, 1925 – Harry H. Corbett, Burmese-English actor (d. 1982)
• April 28, 1925 – John Leonard Thorn, English lieutenant, author, and academic
• July 30, 1925 – Alexander Trocchi, Scottish author and poet (d. 1984)
• August 15, 1925 – Erik Schmidt, Swedish-Estonian painter and author (d. 2014)
• August 26, 1925 – Pyotr Todorovsky, Ukrainian-Russian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 2013)
• August 27, 1925 – Darry Cowl, French actor and composer (d. 2006)
• October 5, 1925 – Herbert Kretzmer, South African-English journalist and songwriter
• October 27, 1925 – Jane Connell, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
• November 27, 1925 – John Maddox, Welsh chemist, physicist, and journalist (d. 2009)
• November 28, 1925 – József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 1978)