What Happened in April 1925

Historical Events

Babe Ruth Collapses

Apr 5 Yankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in NC due to an ulcer

Apr 6 1st film shown on an airplane (British Air)
Apr 9 At the height of his fame Babe Ruth rushed to hospital with a mysterious condition labelled “the bellyache heard round the world". Ruth reported dead by some newspapers. [1]

The Great Gatsby

Apr 10 Scribners publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Apr 10 Tsaritsyn renamed Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
Apr 11 Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco
Apr 13 Virginia Theater (ANTA, Guild) opens at 245 W 52nd St NYC
Apr 14 First regular-season Chicago Cubs game broadcast on radio (WGN) by caller Quin Ryan; Cubs beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 8-2
Apr 15 NHL's NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1
Apr 16 During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 wounded
Apr 17 NY Yankee Babe Ruth has ulcer surgery

Event of Interest

Apr 17 Paul Painlevé succeeds Edouard Herriot as French premier

Prime Minister of France Édouard Herriot

Apr 18 World's Fair opens in Chicago
Apr 20 29th Boston Marathon won by Charles Mellor in 2:33:00.6
Apr 21 Chuvash Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Chuvash ASSR
Apr 21 No baseball games played in NL due to Charles Ebbets' funeral

Fallen Angels

Apr 21 Noël Coward's controversial comedy play "Fallen Angels" premieres in London, after initially being refused a license due to the loose morals of the female characters

Playwright, Director and Singer Noël Coward

Frasquita

Apr 23 1st London performance of Franz Lehár’s operetta "Frasquita" staged

Apr 23 Having badly defeated Spain and driven her out of Spanish Morocco, the native Riffi, led by Abd-el-Krim, turn on the French in French Morocco
Apr 23 Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO)
Apr 24 88°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April

Hindenburg Elected President

Apr 25 Paul von Hindenburg is elected the President of Germany

German President and WWI General Paul von Hindenburg

Diego Rivera Leaves Communist Party

Apr 26 Artist Diego Rivera resigns from the Mexican Communist Party

Apr 26 Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big"
Apr 28 Kurdish rebels surrender to Turkish army
Apr 28 Netherlands & Great Britain return to gold standard
Apr 30 Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity

Events in 1925

Famous Birthdays

Apr 1 Kathy Stobart, British jazz tenor saxophonist, bandleader, and teacher, born in South Shields, England (d. 2014)
Apr 1 Sala Burton, American politician (Rep-D-CA, 1983-87), born in Białystok, Poland (d. 1987)
Apr 2 George MacDonald Fraser, British poet and author (Flashman at the Charge), born in Carlisle, England (d. 2008)
Apr 2 Hard Boiled Haggerty [Don Stansauk], American pro wrestler (AWA, NWA, WWA World Tag Team C'ship; IWA World Heavyweight C'ship) and actor (The Incredible Hulk), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2004)
Apr 3 Tony Benn, British politcian, Minister of Technology and President of the Stop the War Coalition, born in Marylebone, London (d. 2014)
Apr 4 (Huberdina) "Erna" Spoorenberg, Dutch soprano (Vienna State Opera, De Nederlandse Opera), and voice teacher, born in Yogyakarta, Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) (d. 2004)
Apr 4 Claude Wagner, French Canadian politician and judge, born in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada (d. 1979)
Apr 4 Elizabeth Wilson, American screen and stage actress (Doc, East Side/West Side), born in Grand Rapids, Michigan (d. 2015)
Apr 4 Emmett Williams, American poet, born in Greenville, South Carolina (d. 2007)
Apr 4 Mother Divine [Edna Rose Ritchings], cult leader of the International Peace Mission Movement, born in Vancouver (d. 2017)
Apr 5 Oldřich Flosman, Czechoslovakian composer (Visions of Michelangelo; Butterflies Don't Live Here Any Longer), born in Pilseň, Czech Republic (d. 1998)
Apr 6 Art Larsen, American tennis player (US Open 1950), born in Hayward, California (d. 2012)
Apr 6 Marcus Worsley, Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, (d. 2012)
Apr 8 Shecky Greene [Fred Sheldon Greenfield], American stand-up comedian and actor (Love Machine; Combat), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2023) [1]
Apr 9 Art Kane [Kanofsky], American art director (Seventeen Magazine), and portrait photographer (A Great Day In Harlem), born in New York City (d. 1995)
Apr 9 Michael Richardson, British investment banker and advisor to Margaret Thatcher known as "Mr Privatisation", born in London (d. 2003)

Apr 9 Tom Jackson, British union leader (Post Office), born in Leeds, West Yorkshire (d. 2003)
Apr 10 Bernard Moitessier, French sailor, vagabond and author who famously led the 1st non-stop, singlehanded, round the world yacht race before sailing a 2nd lap of the world back to Tahiti, born in Saigon, French Vietnam (d. 1994) [1]
Apr 11 Johan van Zonderen, Dutch painter, born in Amsterdam (d. 1996)
Apr 11 Pierre Péladeau, Canadian businessman and founder of Quebecor, born in Montreal (d. 1997)
Apr 11 Rik Kuypers, Belgian director (Sea Gulls Die in the Harbor), born in Mortsel, Belgium (d. 2019)
Apr 12 Evelyn Berezin, American computer pioneer, invented first word processor, born in the Bronx, New York (d. 2018)
Apr 12 Johnny Jordan, English cameraman (You Only Live Twice), born in Oxfordshire, England (d. 1969)
Apr 12 Oliver Postgate, English animator, puppeteer and writer, born in Hendon, London (d. 2008)
Apr 13 Frank Chamberlain, English cricketer and CEO (Test & County Cricket Board), born in Elton, Huntingdonshire (d. 2004)
Apr 13 Hilda Dianda, Argentine contemporary classical and electro-acoustic composer (Rituales; Después el Silencio), musicologist, and educator, born in Córdoba, Argentina
Apr 13 Neville Robinson, English physicist, born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England (d. 1996)
Apr 14 Abel Muzorewa, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia (1979-80), born in Umtali, Manicaland, Southern Rhodesia (d. 2010)
Apr 14 Bill Harris, American R&B and jazz guitarist (Clovers - "Ting-A-Ling"; "Devil Or Angel"), born in Nashville, North Carolina (d. 1988)
Apr 14 Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist ("The Happy Blues"), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1974)
Apr 14 Gogumal Kischenchand, Indian cricketer (5 Tests for India 1947-52), born in Karachi, British India (d. 1997)

Rod Steiger (1925-2002)

Apr 14 American actor (Illustrated Man, Pawnbroker), born in Westhampton, New York

Apr 15 Louis Stevens, American engineer (invented magnetic disk storage for IBM 305 RAMAC), born in Post, Texas (d. 2009) [1]
Apr 17 John Yates, Anglican bishop (Bishop of Lambeth), born in Burslem, Staffordshire (d. 2008)
Apr 18 Bob Hastings, American actor (McHale's Navy, All in the Family), born in Brooklyn, New York, (d. 2014)
Apr 18 Robert Crawford, Scottish composer, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 2011)
Apr 19 Hugh O'Brian, American actor (Wyatt Earp, Search), born in Rochester, New York (d. 2016)
Apr 20 Elena Verdugo, American actress (Little Giant, Cavalier of the West), born in Hollywood, California (d. 2017)
Apr 20 Ernie Stautner, German-American Pro Football HOF defensive tackle (4 × All-Pro First Team; 9 × Pro Bowl; Pittsburgh Steelers), and coach (Super Bowl 1971, 1977), born in Cham, Bavaria, Germany (d. 2006)
Apr 20 Richard Hoffmann, Austrian violinist, composer, and pedagogue (Oberlin -1954-2004), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2021)
Apr 22 George Cole, English actor (Minder, Vampire Lovers), born in London, England (d. 2015)
Apr 25 Kay E. Kuter, American actor (Green Acres), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2003)
Apr 26 Frank Hahn, British economist (Hahn's Problem), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2013)
Apr 26 Jørgen Ingmann, Danish jazz and pop guitarist ("Apache"; "Dansevise"), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2015)
Apr 26 Michele Ferrero, Italian entrepreneur (Ferrero SpA - Nutella), born in Dogliani, Piedmont (d. 2015)
Apr 26 Wilma Lipp, Austrian soprano (Vienna Opera, 1945-81; Mozart's Die Zauberflöte - "Queen of the Night"), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2019)
Apr 28 Laura Weber, American folk guitarist, educator, and public television host, born in New York City (d. 1995)
Apr 29 Albert "Ab" Abspoel, Dutch actor and director (Surprise Attack, Elevator), born in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands (d. 2000)
Apr 29 Danny Davis [George Nowlan], American country musician (Nashville Brass), born in Randolph, Massachusetts (d. 2008)
Apr 29 Ned Austin, American character actor (d. 2007)
Apr 30 Corinne Calvet, French actress (Phantom of Hollywood, Apache Uprising), born in Paris, France (d. 2001)
Apr 30 Johnny Horton, American country music and rockabilly singer ("The Battle of New Orleans"), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1960)

Born in 1925

Famous Weddings

Hans Frank

Apr 2 Lawyer Hans Frank (24) weds secretary Brigitte Herbst (29) in Munich, Germany

Vladimir Nabokov

Apr 15 Russian writer ("Lolita") Vladimir Nabokov (26) marries fellow Russian writer Vera Evseevna Slonim (23) in Berlin

Samuel Goldwyn

Apr 23 Film producer Samuel Goldwyn (42) weds actress Frances Howard (21)

Famous Deaths

Apr 1 Francis William Davenport, English composer, dies at 77
Apr 7 Saint Tikhon of Moscow [Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin], 11th Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia, dies at 60
Apr 13 Elwood Haynes, American automotive pioneer (built one of 1st US autos), dies at 67
Apr 14 Pieter D. van Essen, Dutch artillery officer, dies at 54
Apr 15 John Singer Sargent, American painter (Wyndham Sisters), dies at 69
Apr 18 Charles Ebbets, American sports executive (co-owner of Brooklyn Dodgers 1897-1902), dies at 65
Apr 20 Herbert Lawford, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1887; first exponent of topspin), dies at 73
Apr 22 André Caplet, French composer and conductor (Conte Fantastic, Le miroir de Jesus), dies from WWI gas attack issues at 45
Apr 25 George Stephănescu, Romanian composer, dies at 81
Apr 28 Louis Bouwmeester, Dutch actor (Shakespeare), dies at 82
Apr 29 Edward J. McKeever, American baseball executive (co-owner Brooklyn Dodgers), dies of influenza at 66

What Happened in 1925

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