1924 Jan 9, Ford Motor Co. stock was valued at nearly $1 billion.
(HN, 1/9/98)
1924 Jan 9, Sun Yat-sen appealed to the U.S. to seek international
pressure for peace in China.
(HN, 1/9/98)
1924 Jan 16, Katy Jurado (d.2002), Mexican-US film actress, was
born as Maria Cristina Jurado Garcia in Guadalajara.
(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A19)
1924 Jan 21, Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died
at age 53 and a major struggle for power in the Soviet Union began. A triumvirate
led by Joseph Stalin succeeded Lenin. By 1928, Stalin had assumed absolute
power, ruling as an often brutal dictator until his death in 1953 of a
brain hemorrhage. In 1998 Vladimir Brovkin published "Russia After Lenin."
After the death of Lenin, Bukharin became a full member of the Politburo
and opposed the policy of initiating rapid industrialization and collectivization
in agriculture-a position shared by Stalin at the time. In 2000 Robert
Service authored "Lenin."
(TMC, 1994, p.1924)(AP, 1/21/98)(WSJ, 8/3/98, p.A12)(HNQ, 8/31/99)
1924 Jan 22, J.J. Johnson, composer, jazz trombonist, was born.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1924 Jan 22, American Tobacco was re-instated as a component
of the Dow Jones.
(WSJ, 5/28/96, p. R-45)
1924 Jan 24, The wedding of Alma Reed, a New York Times reporter,
and Felipe Carrillo, governor of the Yucatan, was to have taken place in
Merida. Carrillo was executed in Merida, a few days before the wedding,
by hacienda owners angry over his planned reforms.
(SSFC, 5/6/01, p.T6)
1924 Jan 24, The Russian city of St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad
in honor of the late revolutionary leader. It has since been re-named St.
Petersburg. [see Jan 26]
(AP, 1/24/99)
1924 Jan 25, The 1st Winter Olympic games opened in Chamonix,
France.
(SSFC, 2/17/02, p.A19)(MC, 1/25/02)
1924 Jan 26, Petrograd was renamed Leningrad. [see Jan 24]
(HN, 1/26/99)
1924 Jan 27, Lenin's body was laid in a marble tomb on Red Square
near the Kremlin.
(HN, 1/27/99)
1924 Jan 29, An ice cream cone rolling machine was patented by
Carl Taylor in Cleveland.
(MC, 1/29/02)
1924 Feb 1, Soviet Union was formally recognized by Britain.
(MC, 2/1/02)
1924 Feb 3, The 28th president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson,
died in Washington at age 68. The Woodrow Wilson Foundation in 1958 asked
Prof. Arthur Link (1920-1998) of Northwestern Univ. to oversee the publication
of Wilson’s papers. Link spent 35 years on the project and completed his
69th and final volume in 1983. Link also produced a 5-volume biography
on Wilson.
(AP, 2/3/97)(SFEC, 3/29/98, p.E7)
1924 Feb 4, The 1st Winter Olympic games closed at Chamonix, France.
(MC, 2/4/02)
1924 Feb 7, Mussolini government exchanged diplomats with USSR.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1924 Feb 8, The gas chamber was used for the first time to execute
a murderer. Major D.A. Turner of the US Medical Corps used hydrocyanic
gas on an alleged Chinese Tong member named Gee Jon at the Nevada State
Prison in Carson City, Nev.
(HN, 2/8/98)(SFC, 6/27/98, p.E4)(AP, 2/8/99)
1924 Feb 12, George Gershwin’s groundbreaking symphonic jazz composition
"Rhapsody in Blue" premiered at Carnegie Hall with Gershwin himself playing
the piano with Paul Whiteman’s orchestra.
(AP, 2/12/98)(HN, 2/12/01)(MC, 2/12/02)
1924 Feb 12, President Calvin Coolidge made the 1st presidential
radio speech. [see Feb 22]
(MC, 2/12/02)
1924 Feb 13, King Tut's tomb was opened. Teams from the Univ.
of Chicago’s Oriental Inst. had begun studying the monuments of Thebes.
Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen Jan 3.
(NG, May 1985, p.598)(SFC, 8/5/96, p.A10)(MC, 2/13/02)
1924 Feb 14, Countess Mountbatten of Burma was born.
(MC, 2/14/02)
1924 Feb 14, Thomas Watson founded the International Business
Machines Corp. (IBM).
(HN, 2/14/98)
1924 Feb 17, Margaret Truman, pres. daughter, writer (Murder at
FBI), singer, was born in Mo.
(MC, 2/17/02)
1924 Feb 20, Gloria Vanderbilt, fashion designer, was born.
(HN, 2/20/98)
1924 Feb 22, Columbia University declared radio education a success.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1924 Feb 22, Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential
radio broadcast from the White House. [see Feb 12]
(AP, 2/22/99)
1924 Feb 23, Allan MacLeod Cormack, physicist, was born. He later
developed the CAT scan.
(HN, 2/23/01)
1924 Feb 24, Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail.
(MC, 2/24/02)
1924 Feb 26, Noboru Takeshita, Japanese PM (1987-89), was born.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1924 Feb 26, U.S. steel industry finds claimed an eight-hour
day increased efficiency and employee relations.
(HN, 2/26/98)
1924 Feb 26, A trial against Hitler began in Munich.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1924 Feb 28, U.S. troops were sent to Honduras to protect American
interests during an election conflict.
(HN, 2/28/98)
1924 Feb 29, Al Rosen, baseball player, was born.
(SFC, 2/29/00, p.A1)
1924 Mar 1, Germany's prohibition of Communist Party (KPD) was
lifted.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1924 Mar 3, Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock" premiered in
Dublin.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1924 Mar 3, German and Turkish friendship and trade treaty was
signed.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1924 Mar 3, Kemal Ataturk forced the abolition of the Muslim
caliphate through the protesting assembly and banned all Kurdish schools,
publications and associations. This ended the Ottoman Empire and created
the modern Middle East, though Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia were
still colonies of Britain and France.
(WSJ, 2/11/99, p.A24)(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A3)
1924 Mar 4, "Happy Birthday To You" was published by Claydon Sunny.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1924 Mar 5, Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp became IBM.
(MC, 3/5/02)
1924 Mar 6, Sarah Caldwell, conductor, opera director (Flagstaff),
was born in Maryville, Mo.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1924 Mar 6, William H. Webster, US judge, head FBI and CIA, was
born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1924 Mar 8, Coal mine explosion killed 171 at Castle Gate, Utah.
(MC, 3/8/02)
1924 Mar 10, The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York state law
forbidding late-night work for women.
(HN, 3/10/98)
1924 Mar 13, The Reichstag was dissolved for the fifth time in
German history.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1924 Mar 15, Sweden recognized the USSR
(HN, 3/15/98)
1924 Mar 17, Four Douglas army aircraft left Los Angeles for an
around the world flight.
(HN, 3/17/98)
1924 Mar 19, U.S. troops were rushed to Tegucigalpa as the Honduran
capital was taken by rebel forces.
(HN, 3/19/98)
1924 Mar 19, Charles Villiers Stanford (71), Irish composer,
author, died.
(MC, 3/19/02)
1924 Mar 24, Greece became a republic.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1924 Mar 25, Greece was made a republic and King George II (1890-1947)
was deposed in favor of a non-royal government. King George was king from
1922-1923 and from 1935-1947.
(HN, 3/24/98)(WUD, 1994, p.593)
1924 Mar 26, Premiere of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" in London.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1924 Mar 29, Charles Villiers Stanford (71), Irish composer, writer,
died.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1924 Mar 31, Leo Buscaglia, "Dr. Hug", psychologist (Love), was
born in LA, Calif.
(MC, 3/31/02)
1924 Mar, In Albania Zogu's party won elections for the
National Assembly, but Zogu stepped down after a financial scandal and
an assassination attempt.
(www, Albania, 1998)
1924 Apr 1, Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison
for "Beer Hall Putsch." Gen Ludendorff was acquitted for leading the botched
Nazi's "Beer Hall Putsch" in the German state of Bavaria
(HN, 4/1/98)(MC, 4/1/02)
1924
Apr 1, Imperial Airways was formed in Britain.
(OTD)
1924 Apr 3, Marlon Brando, actor (On the Waterfront, The Godfather),
was born in Omaha, Neb.
(HN, 4/3/01)(MC, 4/3/02)
1924 Apr 3, Murray Dickie, opera singer, director, was born.
(MC, 4/3/02)
1924 Apr 3, Doris Von Kappelhoff [Doris Day], American singer
and actress, was born in Cincinnati, Oh.
(HN, 4/3/01)(MC, 4/3/02)
1924 Apr 4, Eva Marie Saint, actress (Sandpiper, Loving, Exodus),
was born in Newark, NJ.
(MC, 4/4/02)
1924 Apr 6, Four open-cockpit biplanes took off from Seattle for
a round the world flight. Two of the planes made it back. They flew 26,000
miles in 363 hours over a 175 days at an average speed of 77 mph. The US
Congress had to approve the financing and the airplanes were built by Douglas
Aircraft. [see May 3, 1923]
(Hem., 2/96, p.43)(HN, 4/6/98)
1924 Apr 6, Italy fascists received 65% of vote of parliament.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1924 Apr 10, David Halberstam, New York Times correspondent, author,
Pulitzer Prize winner in 1964, was born.
(HN, 4/10/98)
1924 Apr 11, WLS-AM in Chicago IL began radio transmissions.
(MC, 4/11/02)
1924 Apr 13, Stanley Donen, film director, producer (Bedazzled,
Damn Yankees), was born in SC.
(MC, 4/13/02)
1924 Apr 14, Louis Henri Sullivan (67), Chicago architect (Wainwright
building St Louis), died. He wrote an autobiography entitled "The Autobiography
of an Idea." "Imagination is the greatest of man’s single working powers
- and the trickiest; as the intellect is the frailest, the most subject
to derangement, the most given to cowardice and betrayal, unless it be
held steady and sane by the power of instinct."
(Hem., 7/95, p.82)(MC, 4/14/02)
1924 Apr 16, Henry Mancini, composer and conductor of such songs
as "Moon River."
(HN, 4/16/99)
1924 Apr 18, Henry J. Hyde, (Rep-R-IL), was born.
(MC, 4/18/02)
1924 Apr 19, The "National Barn Dance" premiered on WLS in Chicago.
(MC, 4/19/02)
1924 Apr 20, Nina Foch, actress (American in Paris), was born
in Leiden, Netherlands.
(MC, 4/20/02)
1924 Apr 21, Eleanora Duse (64), Italian actress (La Gioconda,
La Locandiera), died. In 2003 Helen Sheehy authored "Eleonora Duse: A Biography."
(MC, 4/21/02)(WSJ, 8/22/03, p.W10)
1924 Apr 23, Eugen Goldbeck shot his photo: "National Balloon
Race."
(SFC, 9/26/96, p.E1)
1924 Apr 23, The U.S. Senate passes Soldiers Bonus Bill.
(HN, 4/23/99)
1924 Apr 26, Teddy Edwards, tenor sax player, was born. He did
"Me and My Lover."
(440 Int’l. Internet, 4/26/97, p.1)
1924 Apr 29, Open revolt broke out in Santa Clara, Cuba.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1924 Apr 30, Sheldon Harnick, lyricist (Fiorello, Fiddler on the
Roof), was born in Chicago.
(MC, 4/30/02)
1924 May 1, Terry Southern, novelist and screenwriter (Candy,
The Magic Christian, Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider), was born.
(HN, 5/1/01)(MC, 5/1/02)
1924 May 2, Theodore Bikel, Austrian-US folk singer, actor (Russians
Are Coming), was born.
(MC, 5/2/02)
1924 May 4, At the Olympics in Paris the French rugby team beat
the Rumanians 61-3.
(Ind, 2/16/02, 6A)
1924 May 4, Fascists and communists gained power in the German
Republic elections.
(MC, 5/4/02)
1924 May 8, Arthur Honegger's "Pacifica 231," premiered.
(MC, 5/8/02)
1924 May 10, J. Edgar Hoover was appointed head of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation at age 29.
(TMC, 1994, p.1924)(AP, 5/10/97)(HN, 5/10/98)
1924 May 16, Frank F. Mankiewicz, columnist (Perfectly Clear),
was born in NYC.
(MC, 5/16/02)
1924 May 17, In Santa Cruz, Ca., the Giant Dipper roller coaster
opened to the public. It was built by local resident Arthur Looff and cost
$50,000. It took 47 days to construct and was declared a Historic Landmark
in 1987.
(CG, #205, 1991)(SFEC, 3/14/99, DB p.71)
1924 May 18, At the Olympics in Paris the American rugby team
beat the French 17-3. Only France, Rumania and America fielded rugby teams.
Rugby was dismissed from the Olympics after rival fans rioted following
the American upset victory.
(WSJ, 7/23/96, p.A6)(Ind, 2/16/02, 6A)
1924 May 21, 14-year-old Bobby Franks was murdered in a "thrill
killing" committed by Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two rich college
kids of the University of Chicago. The meticulously planned crime might
never have been solved had Leopold's unique eyeglasses not been found near
Franks' body. They were defended by Clarence Darrow, who pleaded his clients
guilty in order to keep the case from a jury. Richard Loeb was a cousin
of Bobby Franks. The sensational two-month trial generated an outcry in
favor of execution, but Judge John Caverly sentenced the two to life imprisonment.
Loeb was killed in a prison fight in 1936. Leopold, with the support of
Prosecutor Crowe, was released from prison in 1958 and died of a heart
attack in 1971. A play dramatizing the case was written in 1995 by John
Logan.
(AP, 5/21/97)(TMC, 1994, p.1924)(WSJ, 12/1/95, p.A-12)(AP, 5/21/97)(HNPD,
5/22/99)
1924 May 25, Theodore Morse (51), composer, died.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1924 May 26, President Coolidge signed an Immigration law that
restricted immigration.
(MC, 5/26/02)
1924 May 26, Victor Herbert (65), Irish-US cellist, composer
("Babes in Toyland," "Eileen," "The Red Mill") conductor, died.
(MC, 5/26/02)
1924 May 26, German government of Marx resigned.
(MC, 5/26/02)
1924 May 29, Pierre-Paul Cambon French diplomat (Madrid/London),
died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1924 May, The US dominated the summer Olympics in Paris and Finland
ranked a distant 2nd.
(Ind, 2/16/02, 6A)
1924 May, Benjamin Spock, a Yale medical student, won a gold
medal as part of the men’s 8-man rowing team in the Paris Olympics.
(WSJ, 7/23/96, p.A6)
1924 May, Helen Wills and Vincent Richards swept all 5 tennis
titles. Tennis was dropped from the Olympic Games after 1924 because the
best players had turned pro.
(SFC, 2/5/00, p.B3)(Ind, 2/16/02, 6A)
1924 May, Johnny Weissmuller (19) won gold in the 100-meter swimming
event.
(Ind, 2/16/02, 6A)
1924 Jun 2, Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American
Indians. The Snyder Act Granted full citizenship to all Native Americans
born in the U.S.
(AP, 6/2/97)(HN, 6/2/98)(HNQ, 3/1/99)
1924 Jun 3, Franz Kafka (b.1883), Czech writer, died. He was born
in Prague and authored "The Castle" and "The Trial," both published after
his death. A critical German edition of The Castle was published in 1982
and an English translation of that edition came out in 1998. In 1927 Max
Brod edited Kafka’s unfinished manuscript called "The Man Who Disappeared"
and published it as "Amerika."
(V.D.-H.K.p.367-368)(WSJ, 10/10/96, p.A1)(SFEC, 4/5/98, BR p.11)(SSFC,
12/8/02, p.M4) (MC, 6/3/02)
1924 Jun 6, The German Reichstag accepted the Dawes Plan, an American
plan to help Germany pay off its war debts.
(HN, 6/6/98)
1924 Jun 7, Dolores Gray, singer, actress (Designing Woman, Kismet),
was born in Chicago.
(SC, 6/7/02)
1924 Jun 8, George Mallory (38), a British schoolteacher, and
Andrew Irvine (28), a student at Cambridge, attempted to reach the top
of Mount Everest from their camp at 26,800 feet. The body of Mallory was
found May 1, 1999 on a ledge at 27,000 feet. Two books were published in
1999 that used parallel narratives for the 2 expeditions: "The Lost Explorer"
by Conrad Anker and David Roberts, and "Ghosts of Everest" by Jochen Hemmleb,
Larry A. Johnson and Eric R. Simonson (as told to William E. Northdurft).
(SFC, 5/5/99, p.A10)(WSJ, 12/16/99, p.W10)
1924 Jun 9, "Jelly-Roll Blues," was recorded by blues great, Jelly
Roll Morton.
(MC, 6/9/02)
1924 Jun 10, The Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti was
kidnapped and assassinated by Fascists in Rome.
(HN, 6/10/98)
1924 Jun 12, George Bush, forty-first President of the United
States, was born. He sent the U.S. Armed Forces to defeat Iraq in the Persian
Gulf War.
(HN, 6/12/99)
1924 Jun 15, J. Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI. [see
May 10]
(MC, 6/15/02)
1924 Jun 17, The Fascist militia marched into Rome.
(HN, 6/17/98)
1924 Jun 20, Chet Atkins, guitarist, was born.
(HN, 6/20/01)
1924 Jun 20, Audie Murphy was born in Kingston, Tx. He became
the most decorated American soldier of World War II who went on to make
movies and write a book about his war experiences called "To Hell and Back."
(HN, 6/20/98)(MC, 6/20/02)
1924 Jun 23, Lt. Russell Maugham flew from New York to San Francisco
in his 3rd attempt at a dawn to dusk traverse of the continent.
(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.W7)
1924 Jun 23, Cecil [James] Sharp (64), English folk musician,
died.
(MC, 6/23/02)
1924 Jun 24, The Democrats began their convention in New York’s
Madison Square Garden. They were lured there by newspaper mogul Herbert
Bayard Swope’s fundraising offer of $205,000. US Democrats offered Mrs.
Leroy Springs for vice presidential nomination, the first woman considered
for the job.
(Hem., 8/96, p.87)(HN, 6/27/98)
1924 Jul 1, A regular transcontinental airmail service formed
between NYC and SF.
(MC, 7/1/02)
1924 Jun 26, After eight years of occupation, American troops
left the Dominican Republic.
(HN, 6/26/98)
1924 Jun 28, A tornado struck Sandusky & Lorain, Ohio, killing
93.
(MC, 6/28/02)
1924 Jul 2, The 1st day of transcontinental airmail service brought
news to SF mailed from New York after 34 hours and 45 minutes.
(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.W7)
1924 Jul 5, Janos Starker, cellist (Chic Symph 1953-58), was born
in Budapest, Hungary.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1924 Jul 10, Denmark took Greenland as Norway ended its claim.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1924 Jul 11, After 103 roll calls the Democrats bypassed New York
governor Alfred E. Smith and William G. McAdoo of California and nominated
John W. Davis of West Virginia and Charles Bryan, brother of William Jennings,
to run against Calvin Coolidge. The Democrats won just 29% of the popular
vote in a 3-way race with Coolidge and Senator Robert "Fighting Bob" LaFolette
of Wisconsin who led the Progressive Party.
(Hem., 8/96, p.87)
1924 Jul 21, Don Knotts (comedian, Emmy Award-winning, The Andy
Griffith Show, Matlock, Three’s Company, was born.
(MC, 7/21/02)
1924 Jul 25, Greece announced the deportation of 50,000 Armenians.
(HN, 7/25/98)
1924 Jul 30, William H. Gass, writer (Omensetter's Luck), was
born.
(HN, 7/30/01)
1924 Jul, In Albania a peasant-backed insurgency won control of
Tirana; Fan S. Noli became Prime Minister; Zogu fled to Yugoslavia.
(www, Albania, 1998)
1924 Aug 2, James Baldwin (d.1987), writer, was born. His books
included "The Fire the Next Time," "Go Tell it on the Mountain" and "Notes
of a Native Son." "People are trapped in history and history is trapped
in them." "The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling,
is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
(AP, 3/1/98)(AP, 12/18/98)(HN, 8/2/02)
1924 Aug 3, Leon Uris, writer, was born. His works included "Battle
Cry" and "Exodus."
(HN, 8/3/00)
1924 Aug 5, The comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" by Harold Gray
(d.1968) made its debut in the NY Daily News. Daddy Warbucks was her millionaire
guardian. Leonard Starr took over the strip in 1979. Her image was updated
in 2000 by cartoonist Andrew Pepoy. [see Oct 5]
(AP, 8/5/97)(SFEC, 10/17/99, p.C12)(SFC, 6/12/00, p.A2)
1924 Aug 15, Robert Oxton Bolt, English screenwriter and playwright,
was born. He is best known for "A Man for all Seasons."
(HN, 8/15/00)(MC, 8/15/02)
1924 Aug 29, Dinah Washington, singer, was born. She was known
in the 50s as "Queen of the Harlem Blues."
(HN, 8/29/00)
1924 Sep 2, The Rudolf Friml operetta "Rose Marie" opened on Broadway
and ran for 558 performances. Producer Arthur Hammerstein ordered that
it be written for singer Mary Ellis (1897-2003).
(AP, 9/2/99)(SFC, 2/3/03, p.B4)
1924 Sep 6, An assassination attempt on Mussolini failed.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1924 Sep 7, Daniel Ken Inouye, (Sen-D Hawaii, 1963- ), was born.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1924 Sep 10, Leopold and Loeb were found guilty of deliberate,
casual murder in Chicago.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1924 Sep 11, Tom Landry, coach of the Dallas Cowboys professional
football team, who won two Super Bowls, was born.
(HN, 9/11/98)
1924 Sep 13, Maurice Jarre, composer (Dr. Zhivago-Acad Award 1966),
was born in Lyons, France.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1924 Sep 15, Bobby Short, singer and pianist (Carlisle Hotel),
was born in Danville, Ill.
(MC, 9/15/01)
1924 Sep 24, Boston, Massachusetts, opened its airport.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1924 Sep 27, Bud Powell, jazz pianist, was born.
(HN, 9/27/00)
1924 Sep 28, Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor, was born. His
films included "La Dolce Vita" and "8 ˝."
(HN, 9/28/00)
1924 Sep 28, Two U.S. Army planes landed in Seattle, Wash., having
completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days. Three U.S. Army
aircraft arrived in Seattle, Washington after completing a 22 day round-the-world
flight.
(AP, 9/28/97)(HN, 9/28/98)
1924 Sep 30, Truman Capote, author and playwright whose works
include "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "In Cold Blood," was born in New Orleans,
La.
(HN, 9/30/98)(MC, 9/30/01)
1924 Sep 30, Allies stopped checking on the German navy.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1924 Oct 1, Jimmy Carter (James Earl), 39th president of the U.S.
(1977-1981), was born in Plains, Georgia.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, Z3 p.3)(HN, 10/1/98)(MC, 10/1/01)
1924 Oct 1, William Rehnquist was born in Milwaukee. He served
as Supreme Court Justice (1972-86) and US Chief Justice (1987- ).
(USAT, 1/7/99, p.2A)(MC, 10/1/01)
1924 Oct 1, Paavo Nurmi ran a world record 4 mile (19:15.4) and
5 miles (24:06.2).
(MC, 10/1/01)
1924 Oct 5, 1st Little Orphan Annie strip appeared in NYC Daily
News. [see Aug 5, 1924]
(MC, 10/5/01)
1924 Oct 10, James Clavell, novelist, was born. His books included
"Shogun" and "Noble House."
(HN, 10/10/00)
1924 Oct 10, Edward D. Wood Jr, director (Plan 9 from Outer Space),
was born in Poughkeepsie, NY.
(MC, 10/10/01)
1924 Oct 12, Anatole France, French satiric master (Penguin Island,
Revolt of the Angels, Thais), died at 80. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature
in 1920.
(MC, 10/12/01)
1924 Oct 15, Lee A. Iacocca, CEO (Chrysler Corp), was born.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1924 Oct 15, Pres Coolidge declared the Statue of Liberty a national
monument.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1924 Oct 15, German ZR-3 flew 5000 miles, the furthest Zeppelin
flight to date.
(HN, 10/15/98)
1924 Oct 18, Notre Dame beat Army 13-7. The NY Herald Tribune
dubbed the backfield "The Four Horsemen."
(MC, 10/18/01)
1924 Oct 20, Baseball’s first "colored World Series" was held
in Kansas City, Mo.
(HN, 10/20/98)
1924 Oct 24, Nobel prize for physiology and medicine was awarded
to W. Einthoven.
(MC, 10/24/01)
1924 Oct 24, Christian Gen. Feng Joe Siang occupied Beijing.
(MC, 10/24/01)
1924 Nov 1, Victoria de los Angeles, soprano (Mimi-La Boheme),
was born in Spain.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1924 Nov 1, Legendary Oklahoma marshal Bill Tilghman, 71, was
gunned down by a drunk in Cromwell, Oklahoma.
(HN, 11/1/98)
1924 Nov 2, Sunday Express published the 1st British crossword
puzzle.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1924 Nov 4, Calvin Coolidge was elected 30th president on a platform
of pro-business policies.
(HN, 11/4/98)(SFEC, 10/17/99, p.C12)
1924 Nov 4, Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected the nation's
first woman governor; she was to serve the remaining term of William B.
Ross, her husband who died in office. Miriam Ferguson was elected the second
women governor in Texas. [see Nov 9]
(AP, 11/4/97)(HN, 11/4/98)
1924 Nov 4, Gabriel Urbain Faure (79), French composer (Requiem),
died.
(MC, 11/4/01)
1924 Nov 9, Robert Frank, photographer, was born.
(HN, 11/9/00)
1924 Nov 9, In Texas Miriam (Ma) Ferguson became the state’s
1st elected woman governor. [see Nov 4]
(MC, 11/9/01)
1924 Nov 14, Leonid B. Kogan, violinist (Lenin Prize-1952), was
born in Dnepropetrovsk, Russia.
(MC, 11/14/01)
1924 Nov 22, Geraldine Page, actress, was born. She was well known
for roles in Tennessee Williams' plays.
(HN, 11//00)
1924 Nov 22, England ordered the Egyptians out of Sudan.
(MC, 11/22/01)
1924 Nov 26, George Segal, sculptor, was born.
(HN, 11/26/00)
1924 Nov 26, The Mongolian People’s Republic was officially proclaimed.
Close political, economic, cultural, and ideological ties with the Soviet
Union continued thereafter.
(www.gobiexpeditions.com)
1924 Nov 29, Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (b.1858) died in
Brussels before he could complete his opera "Turandot." Franco Alfano finished
it. His death marked the end of a 300-year tradition of Italian opera.
In 2003 Mary Jane Phillips-Matz authored "Puccini."
(AP, 11/29/97)(SFC, 12/28/99, p.C1)(WSJ, 4/11/03, p.W7)
1924 Nov 30, Shirley Chisholm, first African-American congresswoman,
was born.
(HN, 11/30/98)
1924 Nov 30, 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic
by radio from London to NYC.
(MC, 11/30/01)
1924 Nov, The 1st Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in New
York's Herald Square.
(SFEC, 10/17/99, p.C12)
1924 Dec 1, George and Ira Gershwin's musical "Lady Be Good,"
premiered in NYC.
(MC, 12/1/01)
1924 Dec 3, John Backus, inventor (FORTRAN computer language),
was born.
(MC, 12/3/01)
1924 Dec 4, Frank Press, geophysicist, was born.
(HN, 12/4/00)
1924 Dec 8, Franz X. Scharwenka (74), German pianist and composer
(Mataswintha), died.
(MC, 12/8/01)
1924 Dec 12, Edward I Koch, Mayor-D-NYC, 1977-89, judge on TV’s
People's Court, was born in NYC.
(MC, 12/12/01)
1924 Dec 15, Soviets warned the U.S. against repeated entry of
ships into the territorial waters of the USSR.
(HN, 12/15/98)
1924 Dec 20, Adolf Hitler was released from prison after serving
less than one year of a five year sentence for treason.
(HN, 12/20/98)
1924 Dec 28, Rod Serling (d.1975), writer and host (Twilight Zone,
Night Gallery), was born in Syracuse, NY. He was also the author of "Requiem
for a Heavyweight." He was remembered in the PBS production titled: "Submitted
for Your Approval," first broadcast on 11/29/95.
(WSJ, 11/27/95, p.A-14)(MC, 12/28/01)
1924 Dec 29, Milton Berle (d.2002) at 16 made his debut at Loew’s
State Theater in Times Square for $600 per week.
(SFC, 3/28/02, p.A15)
1924 Dec 30, Edwin Hubble announced the existence of other galactic
systems.
(MC, 12/30/01)
1924 Dec, Zogu, backed by Yugoslav army, returned to power and
began to smother parliamentary democracy; Noli fled to Italy.
(www, Albania, 1998)
1924 George Bellows painted "Dempsey and Firpo." The oil on canvas
was later acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York with
funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt.
(WM, www,1999)
1924 Otto Dix did art with skulls crawling with maggots.
(WSJ, 6/15/95, p.A-14)
1924 Arthur Dove made his thing "Rain," an assemblage of twigs
and rubber cement on metal and glass.
(WSJ, 3/6/98, p.A13)
1924 Nicolai Fechin (1881-1955) painted "Russian Singer with Fan."
He moved to Taos, New Mexico, in 1926 and turned his home into a work of
art now known as the Fechin Institute. He was born in Kazan, Russia and
emigrated in 1923. He died on the West Coast.
(HT, 5/97, p.50)
1924 Piet Mondrian began work on his diamond-shaped "Tablieu IV,"
and finished in 1925.
(SFC, 10/4/97, p.E1)
1924 Matisse painted "Arabesque" and "Pianist with Checkers Players."
(HT, 5/97, p.60)(SFC, 1/22/98, p.D11)
1924 Chaim Soutine painted "Still Life With Skate."
(WSJ, 5/14/98, p.A20)
1924 George Kelly wrote his play "The Show-Off."
(SFEC, 5/30/99, DB p.37)
1924 Eugene O'Neill wrote his tragedy play "Desire Under the Elms."
(SFC, 11/1/99, p.E1)
1924 Maxwell Anderson and Lawrence Stallings wrote the play "What
Price Glory."
(SFEC, 5/30/99, DB p.37)
1924 The spoof autobiography "Augustus Carp Esq." was published
anonymously. It was written by Sir Henry Howarth Bashford.
(WSJ, 7/6/01, p.W11)
1924 Andre Breton published his first Manifesto of Surrealism.
Surreal work was done by artists such as Rene Magritte known for his "Le
Sens des Realites" (a large potato-like rock floating in the sky).
(WSJ, 8/1/95, p.A-9)(NH, 4/97, p.6)
1924 André Gide (1869-1953), French author, published "Corydon,"
a set of philosophical dialogues defending a certain kind of homosexual
relations between men, and the novel "The Counterfeiters."
(WSJ, 4/6/99, p.A24)(SFEC, 6/13/99, BR p.4)
1924 Charles Norman (1904-1996), poet and biographer, published
his first volume of verse: "The Far Harbor: A Sea Narrative."
(SFC, 9/16/96, p.A15)
1924 Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian playwright, wrote "Play at the Castle."
A version by P.G. Wodehouse was written the following year in English and
called "The Play’s the Thing." A 1984 adaptation by Tom Stoppard was titled
"Rough Crossing."
(WSJ, 5/2/96, p.A-13)(WSJ, 8/15/97, p.A14)
1924 Karl Pearson published "The Life, Letters and Labours of
Francis Galton."
(MT, 10/94, D. Swanbrow, p.8)
1924 E.M. Forster published his "Passage to India," described
by M. McLuhan as a "dramatic study of the inability of oral and intuitive
oriental culture to meet with the rational visual European patterns of
experience."
(V.D.-H.K.p.366)
1924 O.E. Rolvaag, Norwegian author, wrote "Giants in the Earth."
(SFEC, 11/17/96, DB p.41)
1924 Konstantin Stanislavsky authored "My Life in Art."
(SFC, 12/28/99, p.C4)
1924 George and Ira Gershwin produced their first Broadway musical
"Lady, Be Good."
(SFC, 12/4/96, p.E1)
1924 The "Student Prince" by Romberg was produced.
(WSJ, 7/23/96, p.A20)
1924 Janacek composed his opera "The Cunning Little Vixen."
(WSJ, 11/18/98, p.A20)
1924 Emmerich Kalman composed his operetta "Countess Maritza."
(WSJ, 7/24/95, p.A-10)
1924 Emmett Miller, a blackface performer, made his debut album.
In 2001 Nick Tosches authored "Where Dead Voices Gather," a biography of
Miller.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, DB p.69)
1924 Eric Satie composed "Relache," his last work.
(SFEM, 6/9/96, p.32)
1924 The song "It Had to Be You" was composed by Isham Jones and
Gus Kahn.
(SFC, 7/5/96, p.D1)
1924 In Cuba the La Sonora Matancara band was founded in Matanzas
by Valentin Cane. Celia Cruz joined the band in the late 1940s when it
was under the direction of Rogelio Martinez.
(SFEM,10/19/97, DB p.40)
1924 In Georgia the 600-room Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta opened.
It was developed by William Candler, the youngest son of Coca Cola founder
Asa Candler. It was designed in a neo-Georgian style by New York architect
Leonard Schultze. It closed in 1982 and was planned for renovation as an
office complex in 1998. It was listed on the National Registry of Historic
Places.
(WSJ, 2/4/98, p.B8)
1924 Angell Hall at the Univ. of Michigan was completed with its
distinguished 480-foot long facade and massive Doric columns. It was named
after the University’s third president, James Burill Angell, whose tenure
lasted 38 years.
(LSA., Fall 1995, p.15)
1924 J.P. Morgan Jr. (1867-1943) established the Morgan Library
as a public institution.
(SFC, 2/15/97, p.D1,6)
1924 James B. Duke, a cigarette magnate, donated $40 million to
Duke Univ.
(SFC, 10/4/99, p.A3)
1924 The San Francisco Shriners Hospital for Children was opened
in the Sunset. In 1997 it planned to leave for new quarters in Sacramento.
(SFC, 2/6/97, p.A17)
1924 A retired Episcopal Bishop was tried and defrocked for declaring
that communism was more relevant than Christianity.
(SFC, 5/16/96, p.A-11)
1924 The Simon & Schuster Publishing firm was begun with the
publication of a little book of cross-word puzzles.
(SFEC, 9/7/97, Z1 p.5)
1924 The Giant Dipper roller coaster opened in Santa Cruz, Ca.
(SFC, 9/22/96, DB p.27)
1924 Lionel Steinberger put a slice of cheese on a hamburger in
Pasadena. It was the first recorded cheeseburger.
(SFEC, 6/14/98, Z1 p.8)
1924 Red Grange, football player from the Univ. of Illinois, led
his team to victory against the Univ. of Michigan by scoring 5 touchdowns
in the first half of the game.
(LSA, Spg/97, p.25)
1924 The US political conventions were first broadcast nationally
by radio. The democrats in Pittsburgh settled on John W. Davis after 103
ballots. He was then defeated soundly by Calvin Coolidge.
(WSJ, 7/22/96, p.A12)(WSJ, 8/9/96, p.A11)
1924 The Teapot Dome Scandal came to a head. Of the three men
of the Harding cabinet accused, only one went to jail.
(TMC, 1994, p.1924)
1924 The Father’s Day holiday was approved by President
Calvin Coolidge.
(HNQ, 6/21/98)
1924 Calvin Coolidge took a long nap every afternoon. His 16-year-old
son had just died of blood poisoning and this caused severe depression
in the president.
(TMC, 1994, p.1924)(WSJ, 6/16/98, p.A17)
1924 The US passed an Immigration Restriction Act.
(SFC, 1/12/98, p.A19)
1924 In Georgia the electric chair replaced hanging as the means
of execution.
(SFC, 2/22/00, p.A5)
1924 John Dillinger was sent to the Indiana State Reformatory
for holding up a grocer, and was later transferred to the Michigan City,
Indiana, State Prison, where he hatched a plan for a mass breakout with
a group of other infamous convicts.
(HN, 7/22/99)
1924 Virginia passed its Eugenical Sterilization Act the same
day it passed the Racial Integrity Act, which prohibited mixed marriages.
Virginia repealed the law in 1979. In 2001 the House of Delegates voted
to express regret for the state’s selecting breeding policies that had
forced sterilizations on some 8,000 people. The Senate soon followed suit.
(SSFC, 2/4/01, p.A3)(SFC, 2/15/01, p.C16)
1924 US labor leader Samuel Gompers visited Mexico.
(SFC, 1/22/98, p.E3)
1924 The Ku Klux Klan numbered four million.
(TMC, 1994, p.1924)
1924 US Lithuanians purchased a home on the 2200 block of 16th
St. owned by Senator John B. Henderson for $90,000 as its embassy in Washington
DC.
(Dr, 7/96, V1#1, p.3)
c1924 The railroad made it to Fairbanks, Alaska.
(SFEC, 2/8/98, p.T7)
1924 DuPont and GM combined efforts to produce a fast drying color
lacquer that had a longer lasting finish and the result, "true blue," first
appeared on the 1924 GM Oakland model.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1924 The Chrysler Six sold 32,000 models and lifted the company
to a $4.1 million profit from $5 million in the red.
(WSJ, 6/1/00, p.A20)
1924 Walter Chrysler (1875-1940) bought Maxwell Chalmers. He was
a locomotive mechanic who founded Chrysler with money and experience gained
as general manager of Buick and executive VP of GM. In 1928 he oversaw
the purchase of Dodge Brothers, which was much bigger than Chrysler at
the time.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1924 CBS Film Sales, named after founders Cohn-Brandt-Cohn, was
renamed to Columbia. The company icon, "Our Lady of Columbia," had initially
debuted clad in a flag and holding a torch. The flag was changed to a cape
in 1941.
(SFEC, 2/9/97, Par p.4)
1924 The Hearst Corp. acquired the Albany Times Union.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A9)
1924 The Dean Witter brokerage firm was founded in San Francisco.
(SFC, 2/6/97, p.A1)
1924 The Du Pont company introduced rayon. It was a synthetic
fiber manufactured from the cellulose fiber of natural wood pulp. It was
good at holding dye patterns and allowed the proliferation of colored Hawaiian
shirts. The Aloha shirts had their origin in the brightly patterned work
shirts worn by prospectors and pioneers in the late 1800s in California
and Oregon.
(SFEC, 9/8/96, p.T6)
1924 In Le Sueur, Minn., The Green Giant was conceived to promote
a new European variety of peas called "Prince of Wales" for the Minnesota
Valley Canning Co. Sales of Green Giants began in 1925.
(SFC, 8/10/99, p.C4)
1924 US Food Products Corp. restructured and became National Distillers
and Chemical Corp.
(WSJ, 5/28/96, p. R-45)
1924 Prince Louis de Broglie, French theoretical physicist, conceived
that different quantum orbits in Bohr’s atomic model correspond to different
modes of vibrations in some kind of "out-of-this-world" fluid surrounding
the atomic nuclei.
(SCTS, p.60)
1924 The frosted incandescent lamp was invented in the US.
(SFC, 7/14/99, p.7)
1924 Edwin Hubble demonstrated the existence of other galaxies.
(BHT, Hawking, p.36)
1924 E.M. Antoniadi of France described planet-wide dust storms
on Mars.
(SFC, 11/29/96, p.A17)
1924 The Tuang child, Australopithecus africanus, "southern ape
of Africa," was discovered. The discovery was documented by R.A. Dart in
his paper "The First South African Manlike Ape."
(RFH-MDHP, p.168)
1924 E.G. Zeis published the results of his study of the Katmai
volcano, which erupted in 1912.
(WSJ, 1/12/95, A-14)
1924 A murder took place on Randolph Hearst’s yacht Oneida. It
remained unsolved in 1996 when his granddaughter, Patricia, co-wrote "Mystery
at San Simeon" with Cordelia Frances Biddle.
(SFEC, 9/29/96, BR p.8)
1924 West Virginia Congressman Samuel Brashear was killed by lightning.
(SFEC, 4/20/97, Z1 p.5)
1924 Ferrucio Busoni, composer, died. He left unfinished his opera
"Doktor Faust," which was finished in 1982 by Antony Beaumont. The opera
was based on work by Christopher Marlowe and puppet plays that preceded
the Goethe treatment.
(SFC, 6/25/96, p.E2)(WSJ, 9/2/99, p.A12)
1924 Isabella Stewart Gardner, founder of the Gardner Museum,
died. She decreed that no changes be made to her museum.
(WSJ, 2/5/97, p.A16)
1924 Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor
(AFL), died.
(WSJ, 12/4/96, p.A16)
1924 Englishman Edward Dene Morel, Congo activist, died of a heart
attack at age 51.
(SFEM, 8/16/98, p.12)
1924 Willis Polk (b.1867), San Francisco architect, died. He had
designed the Filoli estate on the Peninsula and the glass-fronted Hallidie
Building on Sutter St.
(SFC, 12/19/96, p.A21)(Ind, 2/9/02, 5A)
1924 The last emperor, Xuantong (Aisingyoro Henry Puyi), went
to the puppet state of Manchukuo in northeast China after he was evicted
from the Forbidden City by a warlord.
(SFC, 12/20/96, p.B6)(SFC, 6/11/97, p.C16)
1924 In France the Ile St.-Louis made an unsuccessful attempt
to secede from Paris and France and issued its own passports.
(SFEC, 6/22/97, p.T8)
1924 The first traffic light in Europe was set up on the Potsdamer
Platz in Berlin.
(SFEC, 6/20/99, p.T4)
1924 The Gateway of India monument in Bombay was completed. It
commemorated the 1st visit of a British monarch to India, King George V
and Queen Mary in 1911.
(AP, 8/26/03)
1924 In India Gandhi undertook a fast to end Hindu-Muslim rioting.
The rioting stopped after 21 days.
(SFC, 12/1/00, p.A12)
1924 Ibn Saud, king of the Nejd, conquered Hussein's kingdom of
Hijaz and launched Wahhabi rule over Saudi Arabia.
(Econ, 7/19/03, p.69)
1924 Stalin divided remnants of Turkestan into the current Central
Asian republics.
(SFC, 1/2/97, p.A10)
1924 The Bolsheviks formed a tiny Soviet Republic in Transnistria
as a basis for later taking over a chunk of Romania.
(WSJ, 7/8/97, p.A1,8)
1924-1928 In Mexico Plutarco Elias Calles served as president.
(WUD, 1994, p.211)
1925 Jan 3, Benito Mussolini dissolved the Italian parliament
and became dictator.
(MC, 1/3/02)
1925 Jan 5, Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming was sworn in as the
first woman governor in the United States. Ross succeeded her late husband
as governor of Wyoming.
(AP, 1/5/98)(HN, 1/5/99)
1925 Jan 10, France-Saarland formed.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1925 Jan 16, Leon Trotsky was dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution
Military Council. Stalin took power over Trotsky.
(TMC, 1994, p.1925)(MC, 1/16/02)
1925 Jan 21, Benny Hill, British comedian who hosted his own comedy
show, was born in Southampton, England. 1924 also given as birth date.
(HN, 1/21/99)(MC, 1/21/02)
1925 Jan 26, Paul Newman, actor (Hud, Hombre, Hustler), was born
in Cleveland.
(MC, 1/26/02)
1925 Jan 30, Turkish government threw out Constantine VI, the
Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople.
(MC, 1/30/02)
1925 Jan 31, Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader, was born.
(HN, 1/31/99)
1925 Jan, In Alaska Dr. Curtis Welch began diagnosing cases of
diphtheria in Nome. An emergency delivery of serum against the disease
was arranged by dogsled. 20 mushers rushed the serum 674 miles from Nenana
to Nome in 5 days. The last leg of the journey was run by Gunnar Kaasen
and his lead dog Balto. An animated film on Balto was made in 1995 by Stephen
Spielberg. The longest segment of the journey, 260 miles, was run by Leonhard
Seppala and his lead dog Togo. The events were later described by Bill
Sherwonit in his book: "Iditarod: the Great Race to Nome."
(SFC, 3/16/98, p.A3)
1925 Feb 4, Russell Hoban, artist and writer, was born. His work
included "Bedtime for Frances" and "The Mouse and His Child."
(HN, 2/4/01)
1925 Feb 8, Jack Lemmon, actor (Days of Wine & Roses, Missing),
was born in Boston, Mass.
(MC, 2/8/02)
1925 Feb 8, Kaufman's & Berlin's "Cocoanuts," premiered in
NYC.
(MC, 2/8/02)
1925 Feb 8, Marcus Garvey entered federal prison in Atlanta.
(MC, 2/8/02)
1925 Feb 11, Virginia E. Johnson, doctor, sexologist (Masters
& Johnson), was born.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1925 Feb 13, US Congress made a Supreme Court appeal more difficult.
(MC, 2/13/02)
1925 Feb 15, The London Zoo announced it would install lights
to cheer up fogged in animals.
(HN, 2/15/98)
1925 Feb 17, Hal Holbrook, actor (All the President's Men, Mark
Twain), was born in Cleveland.
(MC, 2/17/02)
1925 Feb 17, The first issue of Harold Ross’ magazine, The New
Yorker, hit the stands, selling for 15 cents a copy. [see Feb 21]
(HN, 2/17/01)
1925 Feb 19, President Coolidge proposed the phasing out of inheritance
tax.
(HN, 2/19/98)
1925 Feb 20, Robert Altman, film director (Nashville, The Player),
was born.
(HN, 2/20/01)
1925 Feb 21, Sam Peckinpah, film director (Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs),
was born in Fresno, CA.
(MC, 2/21/02)
1925 Feb 21, The first issue of the New Yorker magazine, founded
by Harold Ross, hit the newsstands. The top hatted character Eustace Tilley
appeared on the cover of the first issue and every anniversary issue. In
1999 Mary F. Corey published "The World Through a Monocle: The New Yorker
at Midcentury." In 2000 Ben Yagoda authored "About Town: The New Yorker
and the World It Made." In 2000 Ranata Adler authored "Gone: The Last Days
of the New Yorker."
(TMC, 1994, p.1925)(SFEM, 4/12/98, p.10)(AP, 2/21/98)(HN, 2/21/98)(SFEC,
6/27/99, BR p.4)(SFEC, 2/20/00, BR p.5)
1925 Feb 22, Edward Gorey, American writer and illustrator, was
born.
(HN, 2/22/01)
1925 Feb 22, Gerard Hoffnung, artist, humorist, musician (Hoffnung
Music Festival), was born in Berlin, Germany.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1925 Feb 26, James Moody, US jazz saxophonist, orchestra leader,
was born.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1925 Feb 26, Jihad-Saint war against Turkish government.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1925 Feb 27, Glacier Bay National Monument was dedicated in Alaska.
(HN, 2/27/98)
1925 Feb 27, Hitler resurrected the NSDAP (Nazi) political party
in Munich.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1925 Feb 28, "Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hit #1.
(MC, 2/28/02)
1925 Mar 2, State and federal highway officials developed
a nationwide route numbering system and adopted the familiar U.S. shield-shaped,
numbered marker. For instance, in the east, there is U.S. 1 that runs from
New England to Florida and in the west, the corresponding highway, U.S.
101, from Tacoma, WA to San Diego, CA.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1925 Mar 2, Japan's House of Representatives recognized male
suffrage.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1925 Mar 2, SDAP-Second-Faction (Dutch Socialists) of parliament
demanded drastic disarmament.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1925 Mar 4, President Calvin Coolidge's inauguration was broadcast
live on 21 radio stations coast-to-coast.
(AP, 3/4/99)
1925 Mar 4, Swain's Island (near American Samoa) was annexed
by US.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1925 Mar 7, The Soviet Red Army occupied Outer Mongolia.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1925 Mar 9, Egyptian Ministry of Public Works announced the discovery
of the 5,000-year-old tomb of King Sneferu.
(HN, 3/9/98)
1925 Mar 12, Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen died. Morris
Abraham Cohen (d.1970 at 83) had been the right-hand man to Dr. Sen and
the story was told in 1998 by Daniel S. Levy in his book "Two-Gun Cohen."
(AP, 3/12/98)(SFEC, 4/12/98, Par p.20)
1925 Mar 12, Leo Esaki, [Esaki Reona], physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel
1973), was born in Japan.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1925 Mar 13, The Tennessee legislature passed the Butler Bill
which prohibited the teaching of evolution in the public schools. [see
Mar 21,23]
(Nat. Hist., 4/96, p.74-76)(AP, 3/13/97)
1925 Mar 18, The great Tri-State Tornado killed 695 people in
Illinois, Indiana and Missouri and injured some 13,000 people, and causing
$17 million in property damage.
(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(SSFC, 5/11/03, Par p.A11)
1925 Mar 19, Brent Scrowcroft, Lt. Gen. (USAF), National Security
Advisor to President George Bush, was born.
(HN, 3/19/99)
1925 Mar 19, Angelo G. Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) became a bishop.
(MC, 3/19/02)
1925 Mar 20, John Ehrlichman, Watergate conspirator, was born
in Tacoma, Wa. He served Pres. Nixon as White House counsel and then domestic
advisor and played a key role in creating the Environmental Protection
Agency, passing the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Endangered
Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.
(HN, 3/20/98)(SFC, 2/16/99, p.A18)
1925 Mar 21, Peter Brook, director (1776), TV writer, was born
in London.
(MC, 3/21/02)
1925 Mar 21, Tennessee passed an anti-evolution law, which prohibited
the teaching of evolution. [see Mar 13,23]
(HNQ, 1/27/00)
1925 Mar 23, Tennessee became the 1st state to outlaw teaching
the theory of evolution. Tennessee’s Governor Austin Peay said, "the very
integrity of the Bible in its statement of man’s divine creation is denied
by any theory that man descended or has ascended from any lower order of
animals." [see Mar 13,21]
(SS, 3/23/02)(MC, 3/23/02)
1925 Mar 23, Aleksei Kuropatkin (76), Russian General, minister
of War, died.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1925 Mar 25, (Mary) Flannery O'Connor (d.1964), novelist and short
story writer, was born. [see Apr 25]
(HN, 3/25/01)(WUD, 1994 p.997)
1925 Mar 26, Pierre Boulez, composer, conductor (Visage Nuptial),
was born in Montbrison, France.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1925 Mar 30, Stalin supported rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians.
(MC, 3/30/02)
1925 Apr 2, George MacDonald Fraser, poet, author (Flashman at
the Charge), was born.
(MC, 4/2/02)
1925 Apr 3, Tony Benn, British minister of technology (1968),
was born.
(MC, 4/3/02)
1925 Apr 5, A few people gathered in Robinson’s drugstore in Dayton,
Tennessee, agree that the Butler Bill, opposing the teaching of evolution,
might provide a grand opportunity for profit if they can arrange for the
trial to happen in their town.
(Nat. Hist., 4/96, p.74-76)
1925 Apr 10, The novel "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald,
was first published by Scribner's of New York. A film version was made
in 1974.
(TMC, 1994, p.1925)(SFEC, 2/16/97, Par. p.18)(AP, 4/9/97)
1925 Apr 11, Ethel Kennedy, wife of assassinated Senator Robert
F. Kennedy, was born.
(HN, 4/11/98)
1925 Apr 12, Tiny Tim, [Herbert Khaury], singer (Tiptoe Through
the Tulips), was born.
(MC, 4/12/02)
1925 Apr 14, Rod Steiger, film actor (Illustrated Man, Pawnbroker),
was born in West Hampton, NY.
(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A6)(MC, 4/14/02)
1925 Apr 15, John Singer Sargent (69), US portrait painter, died.
(WSJ, 8/5/99, p.A16)(MC, 4/15/02)
1925 Apr 19, Hugh O'Brian, [Krampke], actor (Wyatt Earp), was
born in Rochester, NY.
(MC, 4/19/02)
1925 Apr 23, The 1st London performance of operetta "Fasquita"
was staged.
(MC, 4/23/02)
1925 Apr 25, Flannery O'Connor (d.1964), short story writer, was
born. [see Mar 25]
(SS, 4/25/02)(WUD, 1994 p.997)
1925 Apr 25, General Paul von Hindenburg took office as president
of Germany.
(HN, 4/25/99)
1925 Apr 28, Kurd rebels surrendered to Turkish army.
(MC, 4/28/02)
1925 May 1, Malcolm Scott Carpenter, astronaut (Mercury 7-Aurora
7), was born in Boulder, Colo.
(MC, 5/1/02)
1925 May 1, Cyprus became a British Crown Colony.
(MC, 5/1/02)
1925 May 5, John T. Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching
Darwin’s theory of evolution.
(AP, 5/5/97)
1925 May 9, Cornerstone for Hebrew University in Jerusalem was
laid. It was founded in Jerusalem in part by Aharon and Yocheved Shulov.
(SFC, 6/3/96, p.A19)(MC, 5/9/02)
1925 May 12, Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, baseball star, was born. He
played as a catcher for the New York Yankees and worked as a coach and
manager for the Mets and Astros.
(SC, Internet, 5/12/97)(HN, 5/12/98)
1925 May 12, John Simon, theater critic, was born.
(MC, 5/12/02)
1925 May 14, Patrice Munsel, soprano (Met Opera, Patrice Munsel
Show), was born in Spokane, Wash.
(MC, 5/14/02)
1925 May 14, Henry Rider Haggard, English writer (Dawn, She),
died.
(MC, 5/14/02)
1925 May 19, Malcolm X, (Malcolm Little) militant black Muslim
leader, was born in Omaha, Neb. He spoke of racial pride and black nationalism
and was assassinated in 1965. "You can't separate peace from freedom because
no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
(AP, 2/21/99)(HN, 5/19/99)(SFC, 9/8/99, p.A7)
1925 May 25, Aldo Clementi, composer, was born.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1925 May 25, Jeanne Crain, actress (Man Without a Star), was
born in Barstow, CA.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1925 May 25, John Scopes was indicted for teaching Darwinian
theory in school.
(HN, 5/25/98)
1925 May 27, Tony Hillerman, mystery novelist (The Blessing Way,
Sacred Clowns), was born.
(HN, 5/27/01)
1925 May 31, Julian Beck, theater manager, was born.
(HN, 5/31/01)
1925 Jun 2, NY Yankee Lou Gehrig began his 2,130 consecutive game
streak.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1925 Jun 6, Maxine Kumin, poet novelist and children's author,
was born.
(HN, 6/6/01)
1925 Jun 6, Walter Percy Chrysler founded the Chrysler Corporation.
(AP, 6/6/97)
1925 Jun 8, Barbara Pierce Bush, first lady to President George
Bush, was born. She co-wrote "Millie's Book."
(HN, 6/8/99)
1925 Jun 10, Nat Hentoff, journalist, was born.
(HN, 6/10/01)
1925 Jun 10, Tennessee adopted a new biology text book denying
the theory of evolution.
(HN, 6/10/98)
1925 Jun 11, William Styron, American novelist (The Confessions
of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice), was born in Va.
(HN, 6/11/01)
1925 Jun 14, Pierre Salinger, Press Secretary for John F. Kennedy,
was born.
(HN, 6/14/98)
1925 Jun 16, France accepted a German proposal for a security
pact.
(HN, 6/16/98)
1925 Jun 25, Robert Venturi, architect (Levittown NY, Las Vegas),
was born in Phila.
(MC, 6/25/02)
1925 Jun 26, Charlie Chaplin’s classic comedy, "The Gold Rush,"
premiered at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
(AP, 6/26/97)
1925 Jun 29, An earthquake ravaged Santa Barbara, California,
causing millions in property damage.
(HN, 6/29/98)
1925 Jul 2, Patrice Lumumba, revolutionary, was born in Zaire.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1925 Jul 2, Marvin Rainwater, country singer (Ozark Jubilee),
was born in Wichita, Ks.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1925 Jul 4, 44 died when Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapsed.
(Maggio, 98)
1925 Jul 6, Merv Griffin, singer (I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts
The Merv Griffin Show, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, hotel owner), was born.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1925 Jul 7, Afrikaans was recognized as one of the official languages
of South Africa, along with English and Dutch.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1925 Jul 10, The Scopes "Monkey Trial," started. It was the result
of a conspiracy hatched at Robinson’s Drug Store in Dayton, Tenn. John
Scopes, a young high-school teacher, was to become the test case on the
legality of Tennessee’s anti-evolution law. An aging William Jennings Bryan,
Nebraska fundamentalist and politician, was the prosecutor and Clarence
Darrow was Scopes’ defense attorney. Earlier in 1925, the Tennessee State
legislature had passed a law making it illegal to teach the theory of evolution
in schools. Many people believed that Darwin’s theory contradicted the
idea of biblical creation. The trial, complete with the spectacle of a
cynical Darrow interrogating Bryan on the witness stand as "an expert on
the Bible," aroused national interest and caused heated controversy over
Darwin’s evolution theory. Scopes was judged guilty and fined $100, but
later let off on a technicality. The trial coverage dealt a blow to American
anti-evolution forces. It was the first trial to be broadcast by radio.
Bryan died six days later.
(Nat. Hist., 4/96, p.74-76)(TMC, 1994, p.1925)(HNPD, 7/10/98)
1925 Jul 10, The official news agency of the Soviet Union, TASS,
was established.
(AP, 7/10/97)
1925 Jul 12, Roger Smith, CEO (General Motors) ("Roger and Me"
movie), was born.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1925 Jul 13, Will Rogers, an Oklahoma cowboy, who had been standing
in for W.C. Fields in the "Ziegfeld Follies," impressed the critics.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1925 Jul 17, Laszlo Nagy, Hungarian poet, was born.
(HN, 7/17/01)
1925 Jul 18, Hitler published "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle). It became
the bible for the Nazi Party. The book is filled with anti-Semitic writings,
a disdain for morality, worship of power, and the blueprints for world
domination.
(MC, 7/18/02)
1925 Jun 22, France and Spain agreed to join forces against Abd
el Krim in Morocco.
(HN, 6/22/98)
1925 Jul 21, The so-called "Monkey Trial" ended in Dayton, Tenn.,
with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s
theory of evolution. John Scopes was found guilty for teaching evolution
in Dayton, Tenn., and was fined $100. The conviction was later overturned.
(AP, 7/21/97)(HN, 7/21/98)
1925 Jul 23, Gloria De Haven, U.S. actress, was born.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1925 Aug 8, The first national congress of the Ku Klux Klan opened.
200,000 members marched in Washington, DC.
(HN, 8/8/98)(MC, 8/8/02)
1925 Aug 14, Russell Baker, author and columnist for The New York
Times, was born.
(HN, 8/14/98)
1925 Aug 25, Asa Philip Randolph (36) began to organize the Pullman
Sleeping Car Porters’ Union.
(PCh, 1992, p.768)(HN, 8/25/98)(SFC, 12/3/98, p.A3)
1925 Aug 25, Uruguay became independent.
(HFA, ‘96, p.36)
1925 Aug 28, Donald O’Connor (d.2003), dancer, actor (Singing
in the Rain, Anything Goes), was born in Chicago, Ill.
(HN, 8/28/00)(SSFC, 9/28/03, p.A33)
1925 Sep 3, The dirigible "Shenandoah" crashed near Caldwell Ohio,
13 die. The 682-foot Shenandoah, a dirigible built by the U.S. Navy in
1923, broke apart in mid-air, killing 14 persons aboard.
(HNQ, 1/2/00)(MC, 9/3/01)
1925 Sep 8, Peter Sellers, English comic actor, was born. He became
famous for his role as Inspector Clouseau.
(HN, 9/8/00)
1925 Sep 8, Germany was admitted into the League of Nations.
Joseph Avenol, secretary-general of the League of Nations, sold out the
organization he had sworn to uphold.
(HN, 9/8/98)
1925 Sep 15, Blues musician B.B. King ("Blues Boy") was born.
In the mid-1950s, while King was performing in Twist, Arkansas, some audience
members got into a fight over a woman named Lucille. They knocked over
a kerosene stove and set the place on fire. Everybody ran outside...but
when King realized he left his guitar inside, he rushed back to retrieve
it. From then on, King named all his guitars "Lucille." [see Sep 16]
(MC, 9/15/01)
1925 Sep 16, Charlie Byrd, jazz guitarist, was born.
(HN, 9/16/00)
1925 Sep 16, B.B. King (Benny King), blues great famous for "Why
I Sing the Blues" and "Stand By Me," was born. [see Sep 15]
(HN, 9/16/98)
1925 Sep 26, The Italian submarine "Sebastiano Veniero" was lost
off Sicily with 54 dead.
(MC, 9/26/01)
1925 Sep 28, Seymour Cray (d1996), computer expert, was born.
His computers were all designed along RISC lines (Reduced Instruction Set
Computing), for which credit is often given to IBM design work in the 1970s.
He invented "vector processing" which involved chaining together long series
of calculations in specialized hardware to expedite solutions.
(SFEC, 10/6/96, C12)
1925 Oct 3, Gore Vidal, writer (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln, DC,
Burr), was born in West Point, NY. He was named Eugen Luther Gore Vidal.
His first book at age 20 was titled "Williwaw." A memoir of his 1st 39
years was titled "Palimpsest." In 1999 some collected essays were published
under the title "Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings." In 1993 a
collection of essays was titled "United States: 1952-1992".
(SFEC, 11/7/99, BR p.5)(HN, 10/3/00)
1925 Oct 11, Elmore Leonard, US writer (Glitz, Mr. Majestyk, Touch,
52 Pick-Up), was born.
(MC, 10/11/01)
1925 Oct 13, Frank D. Gilroy, American writer (Subject Was Roses),
was born.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1925 Oct 13, Lenny Bruce, [Leonard Schneider], comedian, was
born. He was later arrested on obscenity charges.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1925 Oct 13, Margaret Thatcher, Great Britain’s first female
Prime Minister (1979-90), was born in Grantham, England.
(HN, 10/13/98)(MC, 10/13/01)
1925 Oct 16, Angela Lansbury, actress (Jessica-Murder She Wrote),
was born in London, England.
(MC, 10/16/01)
1925 Oct 16, The Texas School Board prohibited the teaching of
evolution.
(MC, 10/16/01)
1925 Oct 20, Art Buchwald, humorist, was born in Mt. Vernon, NY.
(HN, 10/20/00)(MC, 10/20/01)
1925 Oct 22, Robert Rauschenberg, pop artist, was born.
(HN, 10/22/00)
1925 Oct 23, Johnny Carson, American television personality who
hosted the "Tonight Show," was born.
(HN, 10/23/98)
1925 Oct 23, Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer and conductor (Never
on Sunday), was born.
(MC, 10/23/01)
1925 Oct 27, Warren M. Christopher, US, lawyer and minister of
Foreign affairs (1993-2001), was born.
(MC, 10/27/01)
1925 Oct 27, Water skis were patented by Fred Waller.
(MC, 10/27/01)
1925 Oct 28, Leonard Starr, comic strip cartoonist (Little Orphan
Annie), was born.
(MC, 10/28/01)
1925 Oct 30, Scotsman John L. Baird performed first TV broadcast
of moving objects.
(HN, 10/30/98)
1925 Oct 31, Charles Moore, influential post-modern architect,
was born.
(HN, 10/31/00)
1925 Nov 10, Richard Burton, Welsh actor famous for his roles
in "The Spy who Came in From the Cold" and "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,"
was born.
(HN, 11/10/98)
1925 Nov 11, Jonathan Winters, comedian, was born.
(HN, 11/11/00)
1925 Nov 16, American Association for Advancement of Atheism was
formed in NY.
(MC, 11/16/01)
1925 Nov 5, Mussolini disbanded Italian socialist parties.
(MC, 11/5/01)
1925 Nov 9, German Nazis formed the SS (Schutzstaffel- elite special
forces).
(MC, 11/9/01)
1925 Nov 11, Jonathan Winters, comedian, was born.
(HN, 11/11/00)
1925 Nov 11, Louis Armstrong recorded 1st of Hot Five & Hot
Seven recordings. [see Nov 12]
(MC, 11/11/01)
1925 Nov 11, Robert Milliken announced the discovery of cosmic
rays.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1925 Nov 12, The first recording of Louis Armstrong's "Hot Fives"
was made. [see Nov 11]
(WSJ, 1/14/00, p.W2)
1925 Nov 17, Actor Rock Hudson was born in Winnetka, Ill.
(AP, 11/17/97)
1925 Nov 17, Charles Mackerras, Australian conductor, was born
in Schenectady, NY.
(MC, 11/17/01)
1925 Nov 20, Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General and Senator,
was born in Brookline, Mass. While at Harvard during World War II, Robert
F. Kennedy joined the U.S. Naval Reserve and served as a seaman on the
destroyer Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. The ship was named for Kennedy’s eldest
brother, who had been killed in battle during World War II. Kennedy died
from an assassin’s bullet June 6, 1968, in Los Angeles after proclaiming
victory in California’s Democratic Party primary election.
(AP, 11/20/97)(HNQ, 7/14/98)(HN, 11/20/98)
1925 Nov 21, Three-time All-American Harold "Red" Grange played
his last football game for the University of Illinois and joined the Chicago
Bears less than a week later on Thanksgiving Day. Grange was the most glamorous
and well-known football player of the 1920s. In one collegiate game against
Michigan in 1924, Grange ran for 402 yards and five touchdowns. Known as
the "Galloping Ghost" for his spectacular broken-field running, the Wheaton,
Illinois, native drew huge crowds during a 17-game barnstorming tour with
the Bears in late 1925. He is credited with establishing professional football
as a popular spectator sport. Red Grange died at the age of 87 on January
28, 1991.
(HNPD, 11/21/98)
1925 Nov 22, Gunther Schuller, composer and French Horn player,
was born.
(HN, 11//00)
1925 Nov 24, William F. Buckley, Jr., journalist who founded the
conservative magazine National Review, was born.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1925 Nov 26, Linda Hunt, actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado),
was born in Morristown, NJ.
(MC, 11/26/01)
1925 Nov 28, The "WSM Barn Dance", later known as "The Grand Ole
Opry" in 1927, Nashville’s famed home of country music, made its radio
debut on station WSM. The call letters came from the slogan "We Shield
Millions" of sponsor National Life and Accident Insurance Co. In 1999 Charles
K. Wolfe published "A Good Natured Riot: The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry."
(SFC, 7/20/96, p.E4)(AP, 11/28/97)(DTnet, 11/28/97)(WSJ, 7/23/99,
p.W7)
1925 Nov, Khai Dinh, emperor of Annam, died. Annam was a kingdom
of what is now Vietnam that was incorporated into French Indochina. His
son Vinh Thuy assumed the throne in January under the title Bao Dai
(SFC, 8/2/97, p.A21)
1925 Nov, In Turkey Ataturk outlawed the tasseled fez headwear
for men. He also outlawed the wearing of veils by women but the tradition
continued.
(WSJ, 3/27/96, p.A-16)(WSJ, 11/6/97, p.B1)(EWH, 4th ed, p.1087)
1925 Dec 1, Martin Rodbell, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, poet,
was born.
(HN, 12/1/00)
1925 Dec 1, After a seven year occupation, 7,000 British troops
evacuated Cologne, Germany.
(HN, 12/1/98)
1925 Dec 2, Alexander Haig, American army general and Secretary
of State for President Ronald Reagan, was born.
(HN, 12/2/98)
1925 Dec 3, "Concerto in F," by George Gershwin, had its world
premiere at New York's Carnegie Hall, with Gershwin himself at the piano.
(AP, 12/3/98)
1925 Dec 3, Jean-Luc Goddard, French film director, was born
(HN, 12/3/98)
1925 Dec 3, The League of Nations ordered Greece to pay an indemnity
for the October invasion of Bulgaria.
(HN, 12/3/98)
1925 Dec 8, Sammy Davis Jr, singer, dancer and actor (Ocean's
11, Candy Man), was born in NYC.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A21)(MC, 12/8/01)
1925 Dec 12, Arthur Heinman opened the first motel, the "Motel
Inn," in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
(AP, 12/12/97)(MC, 12/12/01)
1925 Dec 13, Dick Van Dyke, actor (Rob Petrie-Dick Van Dyke Show),
was born in West Plains, Mo.
(MC, 12/13/01)
1925 Dec 17, Col. William "Billy" Mitchell was convicted of insubordination
at his court-martial. Mitchell was found guilty of conduct prejudicial
to the good of the armed services. He was awarded the Medal of Honor 20
years after his death.
(AP, 12/17/97)(MC, 12/17/01)
1925 Dec 18, Soviet leaders Lev Kamenev and Grigori Zinoviev broke
with Stalin.
(HN, 12/18/98)
1925 Dec 25, Carlos Castaneda, author of "The Teachings of Don
Juan," was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil or Cajamarca, Peru. He lied about
the statistical details of his life.
(SFC, 6/19/98, p.A2)
1925 Dec 25, U.S. Admiral Latimer disarmed Nicaraguan insurgents
in support of the Diaz regime.
(HN, 12/25/98)
1925 Dec 26, Six U.S. destroyers were ordered from Manila to China
to protect interests in the civil war that was being waged there.
(HN, 12/26/98)
1925 Dec 28, George and Ira Gershwin's musical "Tip-Toes," premiered
in NYC.
(MC, 12/28/01)
1925 William F. Buckley, [conservative news commentator], was
born.
(SFC, 7/20/96, p.E4)
1925 Poet Kenneth Koch was born in Cincinnati. In 1998 David Lehman
published "The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets."
(WSJ, 9/18/98, p.W8)
1925 Pierre Bonnard painted "After the Meal."
(SFEC, 8/2/98, BR p.9)
1925 Charles Burchfield painted "The Song of the Telegraph."
(SFC,10/15/97, p.D3)
1925 Arthur Dove painted "Goin Fishin’."
(SFC,10/15/97, p.D3)
1925 Matisse began his sculpture "Large Seated Nude," and finished
in 1929.
(SFEM, 11/24/96, p.46)
1925 Georgia O’Keeffe painted "Large Dark Red Leaves on White."
(SFC, 2/19/00, p.B1)
1925 Chaim Soutine painted "Hanging Turkey."
(WSJ, 5/14/98, p.A20)
1925 Vaclav Zapadlik painted Andre Boillot racing his Peugeot
in Italy.
(SFC, 8/24/96, p.E1)
1925 Dr. Albert C. Barnes (1872-1951) built a mansion to house
his collection of French impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces
in Merion, Pennsylvania. The collection grew to some 2,500 objects and
their setup and access was highly restricted by Dr. Barnes’ trust indenture.
Barnes had made his fortune with a pediatric antibiotic called Argyrol.
By 2000 his foundation was broke. In 2003 John Anderson authored ""Art
Held Hostage," an account of the Barnes collection.
(WSJ, 11/28/95, p.A-12)(WSJ, 7/18/03, p.W18)
1925 Gerald Murphy as an American painter in Paris painted the
"Watch."
SFC, 6/4/96, p.E5)
1925 Chaim Soutine painted "The Beef."
(WSJ, 5/14/98, p.A20)
1925 The art-deco style was formally introduced by Jacques-Emile
Ruhlmann at the Paris Design Exposition. The expo was called Exposition
Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes and introduced
the profession of interior decorators. Le Corbusier designed the Pavilion
de L’Esprit Nouveau.
(WSJ, 10/24/97, p.B18)(SFC, 4/18/98, p.C3)(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A16)
1925 Jean Cocteau, French playwright, wrote "Orphee."
(WSJ, 6/5/96, p.A12)
1925 Le Corbusier published his "Urbanisme."
(V.D.-H.K.p.363)
1925 Jose Ortega y Gasset authored "The Dehumanization of Art,"
in which he pointed to the "grave dissociation of past and present."
(WSJ, 1/28/02, p.A13)
1925 J.B.S. Haldane published "Callinicus: A Defense of Chemical
Warfare."
(NH, 10/98, p.24)
1925 DuBose Heyward wrote the novel "Porgy and Bess."
(SFEM, 10/5/97, p.4)(MT, Fall. ‘97, p.12)
1925 Sinclair Lewis (1865-1951) authored "Arrowsmith."
(WSJ, 1/18/02, p.W8)
1925 Virginia Woolf wrote her novel "Mrs. Dalloway. The 1997 film
"Mrs. Dalloway" was set in 1923 and starred Vanessa Redgrave and was directed
by Marleen Gorris.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.C3)(SFC, 3/6/98, p.D5)
1925 The musical "Cocoanuts" with music by Irving Berlin was produced.
The book was by George S. Kaufman. In 1929 it was made into a film with
the Marx Brothers.
(WSJ, 6/5/96, p.A12)
1925 The musical "No, No, Nanette" opened on Broadway. It featured
the songs "Tea for Two" and "I Want To Be Happy" by Irwing Caesar (1895-1996).
(SFC, 12/18/96, p.C6)
1925 Ernst Krenek composed his opera "Jonny spielt auf."
(SFC, 4/20/02, p.A23)
1925 Bing Crosby cut his first record.
(SSFC, 1/21/01, DB p.34)
1925 George Gershwin composed his Piano Concerto.
(WSJ, 10/5/98, p.A21)
1925 Sergei Prokofiev composed his opera "The Gambler."
(WSJ, 4/16/01, p.A14)
1925 Rachmaninoff composed his Third Piano Concerto.
(SFEC, 6/29/97, p.D5)
1925 Bessy Smith recorded "The Empress" with Louis Armstrong.
(SFC, 7/4/97, p.D9)
1925 In California the $50 million Hetch Hetchy dam and powerhouse
were completed. It provided water and power to San Francisco.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, BR p.5)
1925 The pleasure yacht USS Sequoia was built in New Jersey by
John Trumpey. It served 8 US presidents over the next 44 years.
(BS, 5/3/98, p.4B)
1925 In Hollywood Jack’s Steakhouse opened at the corner of Santa
Monica Boulevard and Formosa street. It was renamed the Formosa Cafe in
1939 and became a hangout for gangsters.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A14)
1925 A perfumer’s trade journal asked, "Is there anywhere in the
world in an elegant woman’s boudoir where the perfume atomizer doesn’t
occupy the place of honor."
(Hem., 7/95, p.124)
1925 Floyd Collins, a Kentucky farmer, discovered Sand Cave and
was trapped for 2 weeks as he crawled back to the surface. The story made
national headlines and was made into the 1950 Billy Wilder film "The Big
Carnival" starring Kirk Douglas. In 1995 the story was made into a chamber
opera: "Floyd Collins" with music by Adam Guettel.
(WSJ, 5/17/99, p.A24)
1925 Whittaker Chambers joined the US Communist Party. A biography
by Sam Tanenhaus, was published in 1997.
(SFEC, 2/23/97, BR p.3)
1925 Walt Disney (1901-1966) married Lillian Bounds (d.1997 at
98). She met him after landing $15-a-week job as an "inker" at his studio.
(SFC,12/18/97, p.C16)
1925 A joint US and Canadian team under the auspices of the Alpine
Club of Canada climbed 19,524 ft Mt. Logan, Canada’s highest peak in the
St. Elias mountains of the Kluane National Park Reserve.
(N.G., Nov. 1985, p.655)
1925 The 106-foot sailing schooner "Mariner" raced from SF to
Tahiti in a record 20 days. Robert Helen was one of the crew members. Helen
oversaw many major harbor clearing operations for the US Navy during WW
II.
(SFC, 8/1/98, p.A19)
1925 American vice president Charles Gates Dawes (d.1951) was
awarded the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize along with Sir Austen Chamberlin. Dawes,
vice president to Calvin Coolidge from 1925-1929, was the chief author
of the 1923 Dawes Plan for German financial reconstruction after the First
World War. Dawes, who was born in 1885 in Marietta, Ohio, was named the
first director of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget in 1921 and was ambassador
to Great Britain from 1929-32.
(HNQ, 6/25/98)
1925 The US Federal Corrupt Practices Act required campaign contribution
disclosures in federal elections.
(SFEC, 10/5/97, p.D9)
1925 The US Congress passed a bill making arbitration agreements
as enforceable as any other contract.
(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A20)
1925 The US Mail Special Delivery increased to $.15 for the guaranteed
immediate delivery.
(SFC, 6/7/97, p.A6)
1925 The SF Stock Exchange was first connected to the NY Stock
Exchange when a ticker tape was installed by Western Union.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.B1)
1925 AT&T founded Bell Labs. By this year the company had
achieved a virtual monopoly on local telephone service.
(WSJ, 10/26/00, p.A12)
1925 Horace Liveright, American-Jewish publisher, sold his chief
asset, the Modern Library, to Bennet Cerf. This marked the birth of Random
House Publ.
(WSJ, 8/8/95, p. B-1)
1925 A.P. Giannini of SF bought the Bowery National Bank in NYC.
(SFC, 4/14/98, p.B1)
1925 GM’s earnings surpassed Ford.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1925 Ford opened a plant in Yokohama, Japan.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1925 The Hearst Corp. acquired Town & Country magazine.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A9)
1925 The Rockford Silver Plate Co. was sold to Raymond Sheets
and was re-named to Sheets-Rockford Silver Plate Co.
(SFC,11/26/97, Z1 p.7)
1925 Enclosed cars outsold open cars for the first time and created
a big demand for windows.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1925 Sumitomo Bank was founded in California to service the Japanese
immigrant population. By 1996 it was California’s 5th largest bank.
(WSJ, 12/30/96, p.A1)
1925 The Warner Brothers became a public corporation.
(WSJ, 1/11/00, p.B1)
1925 Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian physicist, discovered his exclusion
principle. This says that two similar particles cannot exist in the same
sate, that is they cannot have both the same position and the same velocity,
within the limits given by the uncertainty principle. Pauli postulated
the existence of neutrinos in the 1930s.
(BHT, Hawking, p.67)(SFC, 7/21/00, p.B2)
1925 Bill Peterson, a blacksmith, invented locking pliers later
known as vice-grips.
(SFEC, 11/14/99, Z1 p.2)
1925 2,000 people died of liquor poisoning in the US and the government
seized 173,000 illegal stills.
(TMC, 1994, p.1925)
1925 Al Capone took over power in Chicago’s underworld, where
400 gang murders per year were recorded.
(TMC, 1994, p.1925)
1925 The Kentucky statewide spelling bee went national after 9
newspapers accepted an invitation from the Louisville Courier-Journal to
send students to compete for a national spelling crown. In 1941 the Scripps
Howard media group took over sponsorship over the annual event.
(WSJ, 5/28/99, p.W11)
1925 The US unemployment rate was 3%.
(SFEC, 5/2/99, Z1 p.1)
1925 Lovis Corinth (b.1858), German Expressionist painter, died.
(SSFC, 1/27/02, p.C7)(SFC, 3/26/02, p.D6)
1925 Lord George Curzon (b.1859), British former Viceroy over
India, died. In 2003 David Gilmour authored the biography "Curzon: Imperial
Statesman."
(WUD, 1994, p.357)(WSJ, 6/11/03, p.D10)(SSFC, 7/6/03, p.M6)
1925 Rudolf Steiner (b.1861), Austrian philosopher and educator
and founder of the Waldorf School, died. He was the founder of the spiritual
view called anthroposophy which included a complicated theory of child
development that formed the basis of the Waldorf method for teaching children.
(SFC, 10/29/00, p.A7)
1925 Ahmed Zogu, a conservative northern tribal chief of Albania,
seized power.
(Compuserve Online, Grolier’s Amer. Acad. Enc./ Albania)
1925 Franz Colruyt, Belgian baker, set up a wholesale business
importing coffee and spices from overseas. In 2002 the 160th Colruyt store
opened in Belgium.
(WSJ, 9/22/03, p.R3)
1925 Mr. Roberto Marinho (1904-2003) inherited the Rio newspaper
O Globo 23 days after it was founded by his father who suddenly died. He
learned the business as a reporter and editor and took over as editor in
chief in 1931. The operation later expanded to dominate the television
market.
(WSJ, 12/4/95, p.A-9)(WSJ, 9/29/99, p.A1)(SFC, 8/9/03, p.A14)
1925 The Locarno Treaty was signed between Britain, Belgium, Germany,
Italy and France. It was a treaty of non-aggression by Germany, France
and Belgium and a mutual guarantee and promise of assistance by Britain,
France, Belgium, Germany and Italy to maintain the demilitarization of
the Rhineland. It was not a true guarantee against a German invasion, only
a promise by Britain to send troops after an invasion.
(WSJ, 10/28/97, p.A22)
1925 In debates over the Geneva Protocol opponents touted poison
gas as a "decisive offensive weapon." A ban on chemical and biological
weapons was signed by most nations, but not the US until much later.
(SFC,11/12/97, p.C2)(NH, 10/98, p.18)
1925 In China a palace museum was established in the former imperial
precincts and opened to public view.
(SFEC, 10/6/96, DB p.37)
1925 The National Volunteer Corps, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
(RSS), was founded. It is a Hindu revival group that that is highly disciplined
and leads its members in military style physical training. The corps spawned
a political movement that coalesced as the BJP in 1980.
(WSJ, 5/16/96, p.A-10)(WSJ, 2/27/98, p.A1)
1925 In Italy Benito Mussolini assumed dictatorial powers.
(WSJ, 4/25/96, p.A-16)
1925 The Soviets shut down Caspian oil from the West.
(SFC, 10/12/97, Par p.14)
1925-1927 The albums "Louis Armstrong, the Hot Fives and Sevens, Vol.
1-3" were recorded on Columbia Legacy.
(SFC, 7/4/97, p.D9)
1925-1933 Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, was used by Al Capone-led mobsters
to store liquor for smuggling to the US on the Soo Line. Underground tunnels,
built for steam heating the city, were converted mob quarters. In 2000
"The Tunnels of Moose Jaw" opened as a tourist attraction.
(WSJ, 8/19/02, p.B1)
1925-1945 Bao Dai (d. 1997) was emperor of the French protectorate of
Annam, a narrow strip of central Vietnam.
(SFC, 8/2/97, p.A21)
1925-1965 Malcolm X, writer and a leader of the Nation of Islam in the
US. His original name was Malcolm Little. In 1964 he founded his own movement
and was assassinated a year later.
(AHD, p.790)(Civilization, July-Aug, 1995, p. 36)
1925-1968 Robert F. Kennedy: "The free way of life proposes ends,
but it does not prescribe means."
(AP, 6/5/97)
1925-1997 Marianna Pineda, sculptor. She began sculpting women in the
1950s.
(WSJ, 1/27/98, p.A20)