1925
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Events
Dated Events
- Real World: January 3. Benito Mussolini announces that he will become dictator of Italy.
- Real World: March 18. A tornado strikes Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people.
- Real World: May 29. Percy Fawcett, a British explorer, sends a telegram to his wife. This is the last time he is heard from before disappearing in the Amazon.
- Real World: June 13. Charles Francis Jenkins demonstrates "radiovision" (an early form of television) to representatives of the U.S. government.
- Real World: July 18. Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler's manifesto, is published.
- Real World: July 21. The trial of Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes ends with his being found guilty of teaching evolution in class (violating the state's Butler Act).
Undated Events
- Real World: The first double-decker buses enter service in London.
Births
Deaths
New Fictional Works
Notable Books
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Notable Films
Ben-Hur, Don Q, Son of Zorro, The Hands of Orlac, The Lost World, The Phantom of the Opera, She, The Wizard of Oz.
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