August 1925 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1925 Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk and Netherlands East-Indies
• 03 Aug 1925 Last US troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912)
• 04 Aug 1925 1st Dutch Colijn government forms
• 05 Aug 1925 Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.
• 07 Aug 1925 League of Nation advises against Turk / Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied
• 08 Aug 1925 1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, DC
• 09 Aug 1925 Only time Babe Ruth is pinch-hit for in baseball; Bobby Veach flies out.
• 10 Aug 1925 Hurricane strikes Borculo, 4 die
• 12 Aug 1925 KMA-AM in Shenandoah IA begins radio transmissions
• 14 Aug 1925 Mount Rushmore 1st proposed
• 15 Aug 1925 Norway annexes Spitsbergen
• 18 Aug 1925 Belgian and US sign treaty about war debts
• 20 Aug 1925 WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
• 21 Aug 1925 BV Emmen soccer team forms
• 24 Aug 1925 39th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats K McKane
• 25 Aug 1925 Last Belgian troops vacate Duisburg
• 28 Aug 1925 Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil Island
• 29 Aug 1925 After a night on the town, Babe Ruth shows up late for batting practice Miller Huggins suspends Ruth and slaps a $5,000 fine on him
• 30 Aug 1925 6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium

Famous Birthday

• Honor Blackman

  British actress, starting with the TV series, "The Avengers," 12/22/1962, along with Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee.

• Dary Cowl
• Guy Degrenne

  French businessman, an industrialist who founded the Guy Degrenne company, a renowned manufacturer of cutlery, champagne buckets, plates,...

• Mike Connors

  American actor on-screen from 1953 under the name of Touch Connors.

• Maurice Pialat

  French actor and director (d. 2003).

• Alija Izetbegovic
• Oscar Peterson

  Canadian pianist and composer (d. 2007).

• Madeleine Chapsal
• Helen Wambach

  American licensed psychologist who, as a reincarnation researcher, is noted for her demographic studies showing that prior lives which...

• Alan Whicker

  British world traveler born in Egypt, TV host of "Whicker's World" from 1958.

• Aldo Ciccolini
• Donald O'Connor

  American actor, comedian, singer and dancer who is still rated as one of the most versatile song-and-dance men ever to star in films and TV.

• Shirley Hufstedler

  American lawyer and jurist she was US Secretary of Education from 1979-1981.

• Alain Touraine

  French sociologist, best known for being the originator of the term "post-industrial society".

• Russell Baker

  American journalist and columnist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1979.

• Alain Peyrefitte

  French scholar and politician.

• Don Chipp

  Australian politician, best known as the Minister in a conservative government who relaxed Australia's puritanical censorship laws.

• Mike Douglas
• Ross McWhirter

  British journalist who, along with his 20-minute older twin brother, authored "The Guinness Book Of World Records.

• Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo
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Famous Deaths

• Alfons Van de Perre

  Flemish physician.

• John Pieter Veth

  Painter / lithographer / etcher / writer, dies at 61.

• Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf

  Austro-Hungarian field marshal (Born 1852).

• William Bruce

  Australian cricketer (Born 1864).

• Sir Surendranath Banerjea

  Indian leader of the Indian National Congress (Born 1848).

• Konrad Magi

  Estonian artist (Born 1878).

• Jennie Lee

  Scottish teacher, author and politician, Member of Parliament and Minister of State for the Arts, Baroness Lee of Asheridge.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Gene Austin - Yes Sir! That's My Baby
2. Billy Murray - Don't Bring Lulu
3. Billy Jones & Ernest Hare - Don't Bring Lulu
4. Harry Reser's Orchestra - Yearning (Just For You)
5. Lewis James - Oh How I Miss You Tonight