• Source: April 1925

      • The following events occurred in April 1925:


      April 1, 1925 (Wednesday)


      The Hebrew University of Jerusalem opened at a gala ceremony attended by the leaders of the Jewish world, distinguished scholars and public figures, and British dignitaries, including the Earl of Balfour, Viscount Allenby, Winston Churchill and Sir Herbert Samuel.
      Anadolu Sigorta, the first national insurance company of Turkey, was established.


      April 2, 1925 (Thursday)


      France and Turkey agreed on the autonomy of Alexandretta.
      Born: Hard Boiled Haggerty (ring name for Don Stansauk), American professional wrestler, pro football player, and actor (d. 2004)


      April 3, 1925 (Friday)


      The Ulster Unionist Party, led by Northern Irish Prime Minister Craigavon, won 32 of the 52 the seats in voting for the Parliament of Northern Ireland.
      The British government repealed the Reparation Recovery Act, which had placed import duties on German goods as a means of recovering reparations payments.
      Henry Ford began running a private air freight service between Detroit and Chicago.
      Born: Tony Benn, British Secretary of State for Industry from 1974 to 1975 and Secretary of State for Energy, 1975 to 1979; in Westminster, London (d. 2014)


      April 4, 1925 (Saturday)


      Retired 77-year-old Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg agreed to run in the second round of the German presidential election in the place of Karl Jarres, who had won the first round.
      By a margin of 65% to 35%, [[1925 Western Australian prohibition referendum|voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to ban the sale of beer and liquor in the Australian state of Western Australia.
      Born: Fariza Magomadova, Chechen education pioneer; in Chechen Autonomous Oblast (alive in 2024)


      April 5, 1925 (Sunday)


      Voting was held in Belgium for the 187 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and the 93 seats in the Belgian Senate. The Catholic Party and the Belgian Labour Party each won 78 seats in the Chamber and formed a coalition government headed by Aloys Van de Vyvere of the Catholic Party. In the Senate, the Catholic Party won 34 seats and the Labour Party won 33.
      An F3 tornado struck Dade County, Florida and caused $300,000 of damage, equivalent to more than five million dollars in 2025.
      The Swedish Bandy Association (Svenska bandyförbundet) was formed.


      April 6, 1925 (Monday)


      A flight billed as showing the first "in-flight movie" was conducted by Imperial Airways from London to Paris, showing The Lost World. Subsequent research has established that this was actually not the first, as the earliest known in-flight movie has been dated to 1921.
      Investigative reporter Robert St. John was severely beaten by several of Al Capone's men after writing a series of exposés about Capone's criminal operations in the Chicago suburb of Cicero, Illinois.
      Died: Alexandria "Xie" Kitchin, 60, British photographic model for Lewis Carroll from the age of 4 until she was 15


      April 7, 1925 (Tuesday)


      Adolf Hitler formally renounced his Austrian citizenship, appearing before the High Magistrate in the city of Linz, and wrote that "I have been in Germany singe 1912, served in the German army for almost 6 years, including 4½ years at the front, and now intend to acquire German citizenship. For almost seven years, he would be stateless and unable to run for public office, until being granted German citizenship on February 26, 1932.
      France's Chamber of Deputies voted, 389 to 140, to grant women the right to vote, something the Deputies had done in 1919. As in 1919, however, the Franch Senate refused to put the matter to a vote. Other attempts would fail in 1927, 1932, 1935 and 1936 before an action by General Charles de Gaulle in 1944 to decree women's suffrage.
      Born: Chaturanan Mishra, Indian Communist politician, Secretary of Agriculture 1996 to 1998; in district|Nahar]], Bihar and Orissa Province, British India (d. 2011)
      Died: Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, 60, Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' since 1925, later canonized in 1981 as a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.


      April 8, 1925 (Wednesday)


      The Australian government and British Colonial Office announced a joint plan to encourage 450,000 British citizens to move to Australia by offering low-interest loans and skills training, in accordance with the Empire Settlement Act 1922.
      A group of airmen, including John D. Price, made the first planned night landing on a U.S. aircraft carrier when he landed his TS fighter biplane on the USS Langley, which was anchored off of North Island on the coast of California in the U.S.
      Died:
      Frank Stephen Baldwin, 86, American inventor known for the 1874 creeation of the "arithmometer", the first popular adding machine, and the 1901 creation of the improved mechanical Monroe Adding-Calculator
      Abbie Carrington, 68, American coloratura soprano opera singer during the 19th century


      April 9, 1925 (Thursday)


      The Trustee Act 1925, officially "An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to trustees in England and Wales", was given royal assent by King George V, to take effect on January 1, 1926.
      Two people were killed and 11 wounded in Damascus when a demonstration against Lord Balfour near the hotel where he was staying turned into a violent confrontation with police. Arabs resented Balfour's promotion of Jewish interests in Palestine.
      Born:
      Linda Goodman (pen name for Mary Alice Kemery), American astrologer and author of the bestsellers Sun Signs (1968) and Linda Goodman's Love Signs (1978); in Morgantown, West Virginia (d.1995)
      Frank J. Shakespeare, American television executive and dipomat; in New York City (d.2022)
      Virginia Gibson, dancer, singer and actress, in St. Louis (d. 2013)
      Heinz Nixdorf, German computing pioneer and founder (in 1952) of Nixdorf Computer AG; in Paderborn, Province of Westphalia, Germany (died of a heart attack, 1986)


      April 10, 1925 (Friday)



      The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published by Charles Scribner's Sons.
      The Russian city of Tsaritsyn was renamed Stalingrad to honor the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Soviet Communist Party General Secretary, who had guided the defense of Tsaritsyn during the Russian Civil War in 1920.
      French Prime Minister Édouard Herriot announced his resignation.
      The U.S. Forest Service established Dix National Forest in New Jersey, Eustis, Humphreys and Lee National Forests in Virginia, Meade National Forest in Maryland, Upton National Forest in New York and Tobyhanna National Forest in Pennsylvania on the same day, for a total of 98.46 square miles (255.0 km2) of new federally protected territory.
      On the morning of Good Friday, police in Denver, Colorado, carried out a raid at the direction of Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton, that led to the arrest of over 200 bootleggers, prostitutes, and gamblers in the city. Although Stapleton was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, whose members had benefited from the illegal institutions, and although the Klan had supported the campaign of Stapleton and of members of the Denver City Council, Stapleton declared his independence from the organization.: 30  The Klan would strip Stapleton of his KKK membership three months later.
      Lord Balfour hastily left Damascus as Arab protests against him continued.
      Born:
      Kharis Suhud, Indonesian general and politician, Chairman of the Indonesian Armed Forces 1971 to 1974, Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly, 1987 to 1992; in Madiun, East Java (d.2012)
      U.S. Army Major Charles L. Kelly, American helicopter pilot and med evac specialist, nicknamed "Dustoff" for his daring flights into combat zones; in Wadley, Georgia (killed in Vietnam War, 1964)
      Mongush Kenin-Lopsan, Russian Tuvan writer and researcher in Tuvan shamanism; in Kyzyl, Tannu Tuva, Soviet Union (d.2022)
      Angelo Poffo, American professional wrestler; in Downer's Grove, Illinois (d. 2010)
      Died:
      General Hu Jingyi, 32, Chinese warlord and Military Governor of Henan Province since 1924, of undisclosed causes.
      Leslie C. Brand, 65, American real estate developer who created Glendale, California.


      April 11, 1925 (Saturday)


      Celtic F.C. defeated Dundee, 2 to 1, to win the Scottish Cup of football.


      April 12, 1925 (Sunday)


      The funeral for Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow was the last major public Orthodox event in the Soviet Union for over sixty years.


      April 13, 1925 (Monday)


      Abd el-Krim of the Riffians led an attack on French forces in Morocco marking a renewed intensification of the Rif War.
      The Dominion of Newfoundland granted women the right to vote.

      The Larry Semon-directed version of the film The Wizard of Oz was released, with Semon as the Scarecrow, Dorothy Dwan as Dorothy, and comedian Oliver Hardy as the Tin Man.
      Died: Elwood Haynes, 67, American inventor


      April 14, 1925 (Tuesday)


      Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria escaped an assassination attempt when a group of anarchists opened fire on his car as it traveled through the Arabakonak Pass.
      Born: Gene Ammons, jazz saxophonist, in Chicago (d. 1974); Rod Steiger, actor, in Westhampton, New York (d. 2002)
      Died: John Singer Sargent, 69, American artist


      April 15, 1925 (Wednesday)


      James Stillman Rockefeller married Nancy Carnegie, grandniece of Andrew Carnegie.
      Died: Fritz Haarmann, 45, German serial killer convicted of the murder of 24 boys and young men, was executed by beheading on the guillotine.


      April 16, 1925 (Thursday)


      A terrorist attack known as the St Nedelya Church assault was carried out in Bulgaria. A group belonging to the Bulgarian Communist Party blew up the roof of the St Nedelya Church in Sofia, killing 150 at a funeral service for General Konstantin Georgiev.
      Died: David Powell, 42, Scottish-born actor (pneumonia)


      April 17, 1925 (Friday)


      Babe Ruth underwent surgery for what the media dubbed "The Bellyache Heard 'Round the World", as the public was informed he'd suffered indigestion after consuming an excess of hot dogs and soda pop. Conflicting accounts exist regarding the true nature of the surgery, but doctors called it "an intestinal abscess".
      Paul Painlevé became the New Prime Minister of France.
      Born:
      U.S. Air Force General James V. Hartinger, Commander-in-Chief of NORAD from 1980 to 1984; in Middleport, Ohio (d. 2000)
      Art Larsen, American tennis player, known for winning the 1950 U.S. Open singles championship in 1950, for his eccentricities, and for his career-ending motor accident in 1956; in Hayward, California (d. 2012)
      Charles Yanofsky, American geneticist; in New YorK City."Stanford geneticist Charles Yanofsky dies at 92". Stanford University. March 16, 2018. Retrieved September 1, 2018.


      April 18, 1925 (Saturday)


      Rioting broke out in Italian stock exchanges during protests against a new government edict stipulating that 25 percent of the value of all stocks and bonds purchased must be paid for in cash. The law was an attempt to curb speculation to help stabilize the lira.
      The San Francisco Chinese Hospital (SFCH), the only hospital in the United States with a specific mission of providing medical care for Chinese immigrants and the only one with a staff fluent in various dialects of the Chinese language, was opened at 835 Jackson Street in the city's Chinatown section with a dedication ceremony attended by Mayor James Rolph of San Francisco and Mayor John L. Davie of Oakland, as well as officials of the Chinese Hospital Association and leading Chinese physicians.
      The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) was founded.
      Born:
      William Crook, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador To Australia 1968-1969, director of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) 1966-1968 (d.1997)
      Bob Hastings, American radio and TV actor known for McHale's Navy, and as a voice actor for numerous TV shows as "Superboy"; in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2014)
      Died:
      Charles Ebbets, 65, majority owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers (at the time, the Brooklyn Robins), and Major League Baseball innovator, died from heart disease in his suite at the Waldorf-Astoria, two weeks after becoming ill after returning from the team's spring training camp.
      Sir Rickman Godlee, 76, British neurosurgeon, known for performing (in 1884) the first removal of a brain tumor by operating on an exposed brain, improving on the technique used by Scottish surgeon William Macewen in 1879.


      April 19, 1925 (Sunday)


      Colo-Colo, the most successful and popular soccer football team in the South American nation of Chile, was founded at the El Llano Stadium in San Miguel, Santiago, by footballer David Arellano and some of his teammates who had also left the Deportes Magallanes club. The team was named in honor of Colocolo, Chief of the Mapuche's defense in the Arauco War against the Spanish colonists. In its first 100 years, including the 2022 season, Colo-Colo won 33 league championships.
      Born:
      Hugh O'Brian, American TV actor known for starring in the title role in the series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, founder (in 1958) of the current Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Foundation; in Rochester, New York (d. 2016)
      Tuaiwa Hautai "Eva" Rickard, New Zealand activist for Māori ancestral land rights and for women’s rights; in Whāingaroa (d.1997)
      Trevor D. Ford, English geologist and paleontologist; at Westcliffe-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea, Essex (d.2017)
      Captain Manuel "Pete" Fernandez, American flying ace credited with shooting down 14 MiG fighters during the Korean War, recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross; in Key West, Florida (killed in plane crash, 1980)
      Died: J. W. Smith, 80, American politician, Governor of Maryland 1900-1994 and U.S. Senator for Maryland from 1908 to 1921


      April 20, 1925 (Monday)


      Vitagraph Studios, founded in 1897 and the most successful movie company during the first two decades of the 20th century, was purchased from owner Albert E. Smith by the Warner Bros. studio, bringing an end to the Vitagraph company.
      Erie Insurance Group, a Fortune 500 company since 2003, was founded by H.O. Hirt and O.G. Crawford, two former salesmen of the Pennsylvania Indemnity Exchange.

      The use of a sign in the shape of a shield, to mark a federally-funded highway in the U.S., was made a standard at a meeting of the Joint Board on Interstate Highways, as boardmember Lou A. Boulay of Ohio suggested the shape for numbered U.S. Routes..
      Minsky's Burlesque was raided by police in New York as authorities began to crack down on burlesque houses for featuring racy striptease performances. Although a minor incident at the time, it became famous when it was retold in the 1960 novel The Night They Raided Minsky's, which led to the 1968 musical comedy musical film of the same name.
      The Polish language Chicago daily newspaper Dziennik Ludowy "People's Daily" ceased publication after 18 years.
      Charles Mellor won the 20th Boston Marathon.
      Born: Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player, in Prinzing near Cham, Bavaria, Germany (d. 2006)
      Died: Eric Tigerstedt, 37, Finnish inventor nicknamed "The Thomas Edison of Finland"[https://blf.fi/artikel.php?id=4380 "TIGERSTEDT, Erik Magnus Campbell
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      April 21, 1925 (Tuesday)


      King Features President Moses Koenigsberg presented a "Phonofilm", made by the company owned by inventor Lee de Forest, to a gathering of editors and publishers in New York City. Shot the week before, Calvin Coolidge became the first U.S. president to talk on film as he delivered a four-minute address.


      April 22, 1925 (Wednesday)


      The Saltair pavilion, a famous bath house resort in Saltair, Utah, was destroyed by fire.
      Born: George Cole, actor, in Morden, South London (d. 2015)
      Died: André Caplet, 46, French composer and conductor (pleurisy from being gassed in World War I)


      April 23, 1925 (Thursday)


      The Italian ocean liner SS Conte Biancamano was launched.
      Actress Frances Howard married film producer Samuel Goldwyn.
      The Dutch public broadcasting organization Katholieke Radio Omroep was founded.


      April 24, 1925 (Friday)


      Former German Crown Prince Wilhelm stated that he saw a chance for restoration of the German monarchy in the event of a victory for monarchist candidate Paul von Hindenburg in the April 26 election.
      Born: Faye Dancer, baseball player, in Santa Monica, California (d. 2002); Eugen Weber, historian, in Bucharest, Romania (d. 2007)


      April 25, 1925 (Saturday)


      Sheffield United F.C. defeated Cardiff City 1-0 in the FA Cup Final.
      Born: Kay E. Kuter, actor, in Los Angeles (d. 2003)


      April 26, 1925 (Sunday)


      Paul von Hindenburg won the run-off of the German presidential election. Neither Karl Jarres (who had the plurality of almost 39% of the votes on March 29), and Otto Braun (who had 29%) participated in the second round. Hindenburg, who wasn't a candidate in the first round of voting finished ahead of Wilhelm Marx with 14,655,641 votes to Marx's 13,751,605.
      Franz Kafka's final novel, Der Prozess (later translated to English in 1937 as The Trial) was published for the first time, a little more than nine months after his June 3, 1924 death.
      Edna Ferber won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel So Big.
      The Berlin Mosque, designed by architect K. A. Hermann, was opened to German Muslims.
      Born:
      Michele Ferrero, owner of the chocolate manufacturer Ferrero SpA since 1949 and, at the time of death, 20th wealthiest person in the world and the richest person in Italy; near Turin in Dogliani, Piedmont (d.2015)
      Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician, in Copenhagen (d. 2015)


      April 27, 1925 (Monday)


      France began air raids in the Rif War in Morocco, employing the Armée de l'Air for the next nine years against the Moroccan nationalists.
      Government High School was opened by the colonial government in the Bahamas as the first public high school for black Bahamians and for girls who had been excluded from all of the private schools in the colony.
      Bulgarian authorities claimed they seized 400 pounds of explosives from conspirators plotting to blow up several public buildings in Varna.
      The murder of William Plommer occurred in Sheffield, England. The case became international news as a gang of eleven men were arrested and tried.
      Born: Edel von Rothe, German ballet dancer and the prima ballerina for the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf; in Berlin.(d.2008)


      April 28, 1925 (Tuesday)


      Presenting the government's budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill announced Britain's return to the gold standard.
      The Gorilla, written by Ralph Spence and produced by Donald Gallaher, premiered on Broadway for the first of 257 performances.
      The International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts (French: L'Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes) was inaugurated in Paris before a crowd of 4,000 invited guests, and opened to the public the next day. The term "Art Deco" was derived by shortening the French title of the exposition, and this show also did much to popularize the style worldwide. The exposition would continue for almost six months until closing on October 25.
      The German comedy film The Found Bride premiered in Berlin.
      Died: P. Theagaraya Chetty, 73, Indian politician lawyer, Chairman of the South Indian Liberal Federation (commonly called the Justice Party) since 1917.


      April 29, 1925 (Wednesday)


      English inventor Grindell Matthews announced he was putting the finishing touches on his "luminaphone", a machine operated by rays of light that worked like a pipe organ.
      Died:
      Ed McKeever, 66, co-owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team with Charles Ebbets, died 11 days after Ebbets had been stricken with a fatal heart attack. According to reports at the time, McKeever caught influenza while attending Ebbets's funeral.
      Ralph D. Paine, 53, American journalist and author, died the day after he had become ill while serving on a federal grand jury in Concord, New Hampshire.


      April 30, 1925 (Thursday)


      The first Australian International Motor Show was held in Melbourne.
      Born: Johnny Horton, American country, honky tonk and rockabilly musician, known for his 1959 recording of the song "The Battle of New Orleans", as well as " "Sink the Bismarck" and "North to Alaska"; in Los Angeles (killed in auto accident, 1960)


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