What Happened in December 1925

Historical Events

Dec 1 Peace Treaty of Locarno signed between Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Italy
Dec 5 CFL Grey Cup, Landsdowne Park, Ottawa: Ottawa Senators win first title; beat Winnipeg Tammany Tigers, 24-1

Event of Interest

Dec 5 Hans Luther forced to resign as Chancellor and head of the German Weimar government

Dec 6 Italy, Britain & Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy)
Dec 6 Record 73,000 pay to watch Chicago Bears beat NY Giants 19-7
Dec 7 Biltmore Theater opens at 261 W 47th St NYC

Easy Virtue

Dec 7 Noël Coward's play "Easy Virtue" premieres in NYC

Playwright, Director and Singer Noël Coward

The Cocoanuts

Dec 8 George S. Kaufman and Irving Berlin's musical "The Cocoanuts" starring the Marx Brothers opens at the Lyric Theatre, NYC; runs for 276 performances

Ban Johnson's Extended Contract

Dec 9 AL extends Ban Johnson's contract to 1935 & raises to $40,000

Founder of Baseball's American League Ban Johnson

Dec 9 Pro football a hit in NYC; Grange & Bears beat Giants before 73,000

Shaw Awarded Literature Nobel

Dec 10 Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

Quas Primas

Dec 11 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quas Primas

Dec 12 Arthur Heinman coins term "motel" from motor hotel; opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo

Last Shah Deposed

Dec 12 Last Qajar Shah of Iran is deposed; Reza Shah Pahlavi takes over

Medina Surrenders

Dec 12 Medina surrenders to Saudi forces led by Sultan Abdulaziz Ibn Saud

Dec 14 Alban Berg's first opera, "Wozzeck" premieres at the Berlin State Opera.
Dec 15 1st hockey game at Madison Square Garden, NYC: Montreal Canadiens 3, NY Americans 1
Dec 15 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic
Dec 16 Alpha Phi Omega national service fraternity is founded at Lafayette College.
Dec 17 Colonel William "Billy" Mitchell court-martialed for insubordination
Dec 17 Soviet Union & Turkey sign non-aggresion pact
Dec 17 Sultan Abdulaziz Ibn Saud conquers Jeddah, the last major stand of the Hashemites against the Saudis
Dec 20 National Football League Championship: Chicago Cardinals (11-2-1) win controversial first past the post title; Pottsville Maroons suspended after playing unsanctioned game
Dec 21 "Battleship Potemkin", Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, starring Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barksy and Grigori Aleksandrov, premieres in Moscow
Dec 21 Test batsman Hunter "Stork" Hendry scores career best unbeaten 325 for Victoria against New Zealand in drawn tour match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
Dec 26 1st East-West Shrine Bowl game of college football 'all-stars' played before 25,000 fans at Ewing Park, San Francisco. Proceeds continue to benefit Shriners Hospitals for Children.
Dec 26 NY Americans and Pittsburgh Pirates set an NHL record by recording a combined 141 shots on goal in Americans' 3-1 win; Roy Worters makes incredible 70 saves for Pittsburgh and Jake Forbes has 67 for NY
Dec 26 The Communist Party of India is founded

"T"ip-Toes

Dec 28 George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin's musical "Tip-Toes" opened at the Liberty Theatre, NYC; runs for 192 performances

Dec 30 NSW score 705 against Victoria, go from 8-475 to 9-701
Dec 31 14th congress of CPSU decides to accelerate industry

Events in 1925

Famous Birthdays

Dec 1 Harold Strachan, South African writer, anti-apartheid activist, and explosives expert, born in Pretoria, Union of South Africa (d. 2020)
Dec 1 Jaime Mendoza-Nava, Bolivian-American composer and conductor, born in La Paz, Bolizia (d. 2005)
Dec 1 Jordan Klein, American underwater photographer, cinematographer and director (Thunderball), born in Miami, Florida [1]
Dec 1 Martin Rodbell, American biochemist (1994 Nobel Prize for medicine or Physiology for discovery of G-proteins), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1998)
Dec 2 Carla Del Poggio [Maria Luisa Attanasio], Italian stage and screen actress (Variety Lights; Immortal Melodies), born in Naples, Kingdom of Italy (d. 2010)
Dec 2 Julie Harris, American actress (The Bell Jar: I Am A Camera; East of Eden), born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan (d. 2013)
Dec 3 Ferlin Husky, American country singer (Born to Lose; Gone), born in Desloge, Missouri (d. 2011)
Dec 3 Ken Funston, South African cricket batsman (18 Tests, top score 92), born in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa (d. 2005)
Dec 4 Albert Bandura, Canadian-American psychologist (social learning theory, Bobo doll experiment), born in Alberta, Canada (d. 2021)
Dec 4 George Colerick, English music writer and publisher (Romanticism and Melody; From The Italian Girl to Cabaret), born in London, England (d. 2020)
Dec 4 Maurice Binder, American photographer and film title designer (James Bond Movies), born in New York City (d. 1991)

Anastasio Somoza Debayle (1925-1980)

Dec 5 President of Nicaragua (1967-72 and 1974-79), born in León, Nicaragua

Dec 5 Glen "Frosty" Little, American circus clown (Ringling Brothers, 1968-91), and instructor (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, 1980-87), born in Genoa, Nebraska (d. 2010)
Dec 6 Andy Robustelli, American NFL defensive end (LA Rams, NY Giants), born in Stamford, Connecticut (d. 2011)
Dec 8 Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author, born in Salamanca, Spain (d. 2000)
Dec 8 Jimmy Smith, American jazz musician and organist (Walk on the Wild Side), born in Norristown, Pennsylvania (d. 2005)

Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990)

Dec 8 American vaudeville, stage, and screen singer ("The Candy Man"), dancer, actor (Ocean's 11), and Rat Pack member, born in New York City

Dec 10 Carolyn Ashley Kizer, American writer (Yin, Pulitzer 1985), born in Spokane, Washington, (d. 2014)
Dec 10 Jean Byron [Imogene Audette Burkhart], American actress (The Patty Duke Show), born in Paducah, Kentucky (d. 2006)
Dec 11 Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist (Nobel 2000), born in New York City (d. 2019)
Dec 12 (Michael) "Dodo" Marmarosa, American big band and bebop jazz pianist, composer, and arranger (Artie Shaw), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2002)
Dec 12 Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (The Book of Alley), born in Tehran, Iran (d. 2000)
Dec 12 Cora Lee Johnson, American social activist for rural poor, born in Georgia (d. 2021)
Dec 12 Dattu Phadkar, Indian cricketer (pace bowling all-rounder for India), born in Kolhapur, India (d. 1985)
Dec 12 Ghulam Guard, Indian cricket medium pace bowler (2 Tests, 3 wickets; Bombay, Gujarat), born in Surat, India (d. 1978)
Dec 12 Vladimir Shainsky, Soviet and Russian composer, born in Kyiv, Ukraine (d. 2017)
Dec 13 Albert Paulsen, Ecuadorian-American actor (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Doctors' Hospital), born in Guayaquil, Ecuador (d. 2004)

Dec 13 American Emmy, Tony, and Grammy Award-winning actor, singer, and dancer (The Dick Van Dyke Show - "Rob Petrie": Bye Bye Birdie; Mary Poppins; The Comic; Diagnosis: Murder), born in West Plains, Missouri

Dec 14 Sam Jones, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1955, 59; no-hitter 1955; Chicago Cubs), born in Stewartsville, Ohio (d. 1971)
Dec 15 (Josie) "Kasey" Rogers, American actress (Strangers On A Train; Bewitched - "Louise Tate"), born in Morehouse, Missouri (d. 2006)
Dec 15 Jack Rothstein, British concert violinist (London Czech Trio), conductor (Viennese Orchestra of London), and session player (The Beatles - "I Am the Walrus"; "Within You Without You"; Paul McCartney - “Here Today”), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 2001)
Dec 15 Sam Pollock, Canadian NHL hockey general manager, 9X Stanley Cups (Montreal Canadiens, 1964-78), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2007)
Dec 17 Rijk de Gooyer, Dutch actor, comedian and singer (Black Rider; Rififi in Amsterdam), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 2011)
Dec 18 Peggy Cummins [Augusta Fuller], Welsh-born Irish actress (Gun Crazy, Curse of the Demon), born in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, Wales (d. 2017)
Dec 19 Robert Sherman, American Grammy and Academy Award-winning songwriter, with his brother, Robert (Mary Poppins; The Jungle Book; "You're Sixteen"), born in New York City (d. 2012)
Dec 19 Tankred Dorst, German playwright, born in Oberlind, Germany (d. 2017)
Dec 20 Benito Lorenzi, Italian footballer, born in Buggiano, Italy (d. 2007)
Dec 20 Bob de Moor, Belgian comics creator and artist (Kuifje, Lion of Flanders), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1992)
Dec 20 Vlastimir Nikolovski, Macedonian composer, born in Prileb, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now North Macedonia) (d. 2001)
Dec 22 Lewis Glucksman, American financier, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2006)
Dec 22 Thomas Christian David, Austrian flutist, conductor, choral director, and composer, born in Wels, Austria (d. 2006)
Dec 23 Harry Guardino, American actor (Monty Nash; Perry Mason; Hill Street Blues), born in New York City (d. 1995)
Dec 23 Henry Charles Gordon, American engineer and astronaut (Dynasoar), born in Valparaiso, Indiana (d. 1996)
Dec 24 Claude Frank, German-American concert pianist and pedagogue, born in Nuremberg, Germany (d. 2014)
Dec 24 Mohammed Rafi, Indian actor and playback singer, born in Kotla Sultan Singh, India (d. 1980)
Dec 24 Yafa Yarkoni, Israeli singer ("Road to Jerusalem"; "Don't Say Goodbye, Say I Will See You"), born in Mandatory Palestine (d. 2012)
Dec 25 Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born American author and mystic (Eagle's Gift, Fire From Within), born in Cajamarca (d. 1998)
Dec 25 Christmas Tinto, South African ANC and UDF leader, born in Mqanduli district, Transkei (d. 2005)
Dec 25 Ossi Reichert, German alpine skier (Olympic gold women's giant slalom 1956; silver slalom 1952), born in Gunzesried, Germany (d. 2006)
Dec 26 Baron Baker, Jamaican-born British activist, born in Port Antonia, Jamaica (d. 1996)
Dec 27 Allan Blank, American composer, born in New York City (d. 2013)
Dec 27 Michel Piccoli, French actor (Topaz, Peril, May Fools), born in Paris, France (d. 2020)
Dec 28 Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer, and writer (Touch of Class, Mozambique), born in Ulm, Germany (d. 2002)
Dec 29 Dina Merrill, American actress (Operation Petticoat; Butterfield 8), born in New York City (d. 2017)
Dec 29 Pete Dye, American golf course designer (TPC at Sawgrass, Crooked Stick, Oakwood CC), born in Urbana, Ohio (d. 2020)
Dec 31 Jaap Schröder, Dutch violinist, conductor (Academy of Ancient Music), musicologist, and pedagogue, born in Amsterdam (d. 2020)

Born in 1925

Famous Weddings

George Gallup

Dec 27 Inventor George Gallup (24) weds Ophelia Smith Miller

Famous Deaths

Dec 1 Vicente Arregui Garay, Spanish composer, dies at 54
Dec 2 Juli Garreta, Spanish-Catalan composer (Sardanes; Les illes Medes), dies at 50
Dec 5 Wilhelmina Drucker [Lensing], Dutch feminist and writer (Women's Mutual Protection Society), dies at 78
Dec 5 Władysław Reymont [Rejment], Polish novelist (Chłopi (The Peasants) - Nobel Prize for Literature, 1924), dies at 58 [1]
Dec 6 Dat So la Lee "Dabuda" or Louise Keyser, Native American (Washoe) basket weaver dies aged about 96
Dec 9 Eugène Gigout, French organist (St Augustin de Paris, 1863-1925), and composer (10 pièces pour orgue), dies at 81
Dec 17 A. N. Hornby, English cricket batsman and captain (3 Tests; Lancashire CCC) and rugby union utility back & captain (9 Tests; Lancashire CRFC), dies at 78
Dec 19 José Ignacio Quintón, Puerto-Rican composer (El coquí; Requiem por Angel Mislán), dies at 44
Dec 23 A S C Wallis [Adele von Antal-Opzoomer], Dutch writer (Vorstengunst), dies at 69
Dec 25 Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst, dies at 48
Dec 25 Sergei Yesenin, Russian lyric poet, dies at 30
Dec 27 ASC Wallis [Adele SC Opzoomer], Dutch writer and poet, dies at 79
Dec 27 Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet, dies at 30
Dec 28 Louisa Aldrich-Blake, British pioneering surgeon, dies of cancer at 65
Dec 29 Félix E Vallotton, Swiss painter/writer (Chaste Susanne), dies at 60

What Happened in 1925

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