1925
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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.
Timeline
- 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.