1925

1924 1925 1926

Events

Using poison gas in war is oulawed under the Geneva Gas Protocol.
Adolph Hitler founds the SS (Schutz Staffel), personal bodyguard and elite police corps.
U.S. Marines continue the nineteen year long occupation of Haiti, from 1915-1934.
Boris Savinkov dies. Morphine takes its toll.
The 8th and last Khuntuktu of Tuva (reincarnations of Buddha), Jebstundamba, dies.
Junkers begins manufacturing the three-engine monoplanes Junkers G 23 and G 24.

January 3 Benito Mussolini announces he is assuming dictatorial power.
April 19-21: U.S. military intervention in Honduras.
March 12: Sun Yat-sen 孫逸仙 dies.
March 16: Robert H. Goddard launches the first liquid fuel rocket at Auburn, Massachusetts.
April 1: Hebrew University in Jerusalem opens.
May 5: Biology teacher John Scopes is arrested for violating primitive Tennessee law against teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
May 19: the future Malcolm X is born in Omaha, Nebraska.
May 25: Scopes Monkey Trial begins. John T. Scopes is indicted for violating primitive Tennessee law against teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
May 30: Strike by Chinese workers in Japanese owned weaving mill in Shanghai becomes the May 30 Incident.
June 6: Combat between Republic of China and warlord troops in Canton.
July 1: National Government of the Chinese Republic proclaimed in Canton.
July 10: Scopes Monkey Trial begins in Dayton, Tennessee.
July 20: The Polish Sejm (parliament) passes land reform law calling for an annual minimum of 200,000 hectares to be sold at full market value to peasants.
August 25: Protests succeed in forcing France to withdraw its occupation forces from the Ruhr region of Germany.
September 3: USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), Airship crashes over Ohio, with 14 dead.
September 16: B.B. King is born.
October 12-23: U.S. military intervention in Panama.
December 12: Iranian Majlis (parliament) establishes Pahlavi Dynasty and Reza Shah becomes Reza Shah Pahlavi.