What Happened In July 1925 In History

Historical Events for July, 1925

• 10th » Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
• 10th » Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
• 18th » Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto 'Mein Kampf'.
• 21st » Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
• 21st » Sir Malcolm Campbell, father of Donald Campbell, becomes the first man to break the convert 150 mph 0 abbr=on land barrier at Pendine Sands in Wales. He drove a Sunbeam (car company) Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of convert 150.33 mph 0 abbr=on.
• 25th » Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.

Famous Birthdays on July in 1925

• 1st » Farley Granger, American actor (d. 2011)
• 2nd » Medgar Evers, American soldier and activist (d. 1963)
• 2nd » Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1961)
• 2nd » Marvin Rainwater, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
• 5th » Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian painter and sculptor
• 5th » Jean Raspail, French author and explorer
• 6th » Merv Griffin, American actor, singer, and producer, created 'Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show) e.g Wheel of Fortune' and 'Jeopardy!' (d. 2007)
• 6th » Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bill Haley & His Comets) (d. 1981)
• 6th » Gazi Yaşargil, Turkish neurosurgeon
• 7th » Abdul Razak Abdul Hamid, Malaysian academic (d. 2013)
• 7th » Gely Korzhev, Russian painter (d. 2012)
• 7th » Wally Phillips, American radio host (d. 2008)
• 8th » Marco Cé, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)
• 9th » Guru Dutt, Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 1964)
• 9th » Charles E. Wicks, American engineer, author, and academic (d. 2010)
• 10th » Mahathir Mohamad, 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia
• 11th » Nicolai Gedda, Swedish tenor
• 11th » Peter Kyros, American lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
• 11th » Sid Smith (ice hockey) or Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
• 12th » Albert Lance, Australian-French tenor (d. 2013)
• 12th » Roger Smith (executive) named Roger Smith, American businessman (d. 2007)
• 14th » Sheila Guyse, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
• 15th » Taylor Hardwick, American architect, designed Haydon Burns Library and Friendship Fountain Park (d. 2014)
• 16th » Frank Jobe, American surgeon (d. 2014)
• 16th » Cal Tjader, American vibraphone player and composer (d. 1982)
• 17th » Jimmy Scott, American singer and actor (d. 2014)
• 18th » Hubert Doggart, English cricketer
• 18th » Shirley Strickland, Australian runner (d. 2004)
• 18th » Friedrich Zimmermann, German lawyer and politician, Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany) named German Federal Minister of the Interior (d. 2012)
• 19th » Sue Thompson, American singer
• 20th » Lola Albright, American actress and singer
• 20th » Jacques Delors, French economist and politician, 8th President of the European Commission
• 20th » Frantz Fanon, French–Algerian psychiatrist and philosopher (d. 1961)
• 21st » Anne Meacham, American actress (d. 2006)
• 22nd » Jack Matthews (author) e.g Jack Matthews, American author, playwright, and academic (d. 2013)
• 23rd » Tajuddin Ahmad, Bangladeshi politician, 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
• 23rd » Alain Decaux, French historian and author
• 23rd » Gloria DeHaven, American actress and singer
• 25th » Benny Benjamin, American drummer (The Funk Brothers) (d. 1969)
• 25th » Jerry Paris, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1986)
• 25th » Jutta Zilliacus, Finnish journalist and politician
• 26th » Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor and politician (d. 2000)
• 26th » Ana María Matute, Spanish author (d. 2014)
• 28th » Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
• 29th » Harold W. Kuhn, American mathematician and academic (d. 2014)
• 29th » Ted Lindsay, Canadian ice hockey player, manager, and sportscaster
• 29th » Shivram Dattatreya Phadnis, Indian illustrator
• 29th » Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer
• 30th » Jacques Sernas, Lithuanian-French actor
• 30th » Stan Stennett, Welsh actor and trumpet player (d. 2013)
• 30th » Alexander Trocchi, Scottish author (d. 1984)

Famous Deaths for July 1925

• 1st » Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (b. 1866)
• 7th » Clarence Hudson White American photographer and educator (b. 1871)
• 14th » Francisco Guilledo, Filipino boxer (b. 1901)
• 18th » Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (b. 1840)
• 26th » Antonio Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1888)
• 26th » Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1848)
• 26th » William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician, 41st United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)

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