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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 24, 1925 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Ox in Chinese astrology.
• February 21, 1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
• March 9, 1925 – Pink’s War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
• March 18, 1925 – The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
• April 10, 1925 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
• April 30, 1925 – Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146 million plus $50 million for charity.
• 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.
• October 14, 1925 – An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.)
• October 30, 1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain’s first television transmitter.
• 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?

• January 1, 1925 – Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, 1st Tanzanian Minister of Finance (d. 2005)
• January 9, 1925 – Pierre Jalbert, Canadian-American actor (d. 2014)
• February 7, 1925 – Hans Schmidt, Canadian wrestler (d. 2012)
• April 2, 1925 – Hans Rosenthal, German radio and television host (d. 1987)
• April 14, 1925 – Rod Steiger, American actor and soldier (d. 2002)
• May 7, 1925 – Lauri Vaska, Estonian-American chemist and academic
• May 14, 1925 – Ninian Sanderson, Scottish racing driver (d. 1985)
• May 25, 1925 – Eldon Griffiths, English journalist and politician (d. 2014)
• August 12, 1925 – Ross McWhirter, Scottish publisher and activist, co-founded the Guinness World Records (d. 1975)
• December 4, 1925 – Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (d. 2009)