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| | | Charlie Chaplin makes The Gold Rush, involving his little tramp in the horrors of wintry Alaska | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Benito Mussolini arrests opposition politicians, takes control of the press and assumes dictatorial powers in Italy | |
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| 1925 |
| | | The Central Committee of the USSR removes Trotsky from his influential post as War Commissar | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Trumpeter Louis Armstrong, in Chicago, forms the Hot Five with his wife on piano and three New Orleans musicians on trombone, clarinet and guitar | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Harold Ross founds The New Yorker as a humorous weekly, and remains in charge of it until his death in 1951 | |
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| 1925 |
| | | The first volume of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf is published | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Scott FitzGerald publishes his novel The Great Gatsby, set in a contemporary world of lavish indulgence underpinned by crime | |
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| 1925 |
| | | DuBose Heyward publishes his first novel, Porgy, set in Charleston's Catfish Row | |
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| 1925 |
| | | 23-year-old German physicist Werner Heisenberg publishes his ground-breaking theory of quantum mechanics | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Field marshal Paul von Hindenburg is elected president of the Weimar Republic in Germany | |
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| 1925 |
| | | The Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein completes his film about the 1905 revolution, The Battleship Potemkin | |
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| 1925 |
| | | 26-year-old Al Capone takes over the Johnny Torrio gangster organization in Chicago | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Britain and other nations return to a revived version of the gold standard, under the new name of Gold Exchange Standard | |
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| 1925 |
| | | House by the Railroad, by US painter Edward Hopper, introduces a new style of urban realism | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Maurice Ravel and Colette provide music and libretto for the opera The Child and the Enchantments | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Plaid Cymru, the 'party of Wales', is founded in a temperance hotel in Pwllheli during the National Eisteddfod | |
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| 1925 |
| | | The Broadway revue Garrick Gaieties is the first big success for Rodgers and Hart | |
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| 1925 |
| | | A fashionable new style, Art Deco, derives its name from a Paris exhibition called the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs Industriels et Modernes | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli formulates his exclusion principle, stating that no two electrons in an atom can have the same four quantum numbers | |
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| 1925 |
| | | A Protocol signed in Geneva probibits the use in warfare of poisonous gas and bacteriological weapons | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Franz Kafka's novel The Trial is published posthumously | |
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| 1925 |
| | | English writer Ivy Compton-Burnett finds her characteristic voice in her second novel, Pastors and Masters | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Anton Webern again follows Schoenberg, this time into serialism, when he adopts the 12-note method for his Three Traditional Rhymes | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Irish novelist Liam O'Flaherty publishes The Informer | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Biology teacher John Scopes is prosecuted for breaking state law by teaching evolution to his class of children in Dayton, Tennessee | |
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| 1925 |
| | | The German navy adapts a civilian encryption machine, Enigma, for military purposes | |
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| 1925 |
| | | The RSS party, from which the present Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) derives, is established in India by Keshava Baliram Hedgewar | |
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| 1925 |
| | | A.J. Cook, leader of Britain's miners, insists 'Not a penny off the pay, not a minute on the day' | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Virgiinia Woolf publishes her novel Mrs Dalloway, in which the action is limited to a single day | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Italian poet Eugenio Montale publishes his first collection, Bones of the Cuttlefish | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Film actress Greta Garbo and her director Maurits Stiller move from Sweden to Hollywood | |
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| 1925 |
| | | A round table at the Algonquin Hotel in New York becomes famous for its collection of wits | |
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| 1925 |
| | | British jockey Gordon Richards becomes champion jockey for the first of 26 times | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Reza Khan, by now prime minister of Iran, mounts a second coup to depose the last Qajar shah and begin his own Pahlavi dynasty | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Treaties signed at Locarno, in Switzerland, aim to stabilize and guarantee Germany's borders with France and Belgium | |
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