December 1925 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1925 Treaty of Locarno signed.
• 06 Dec 1925 Italy, Britain and Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy).
• 07 Dec 1925 Biltmore Theater opens at 261 W 47th St, New York City
• 09 Dec 1925 Pro football a hit in NYC; Grange and Bears beat Giants before 73,000
• 10 Dec 1925 George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel Prize.
• 11 Dec 1925 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quas Primas
• 12 Dec 1925 Cossack officer / ex-premier Reza Chan becomes shah of Persia
• 15 Dec 1925 First road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic.
• 17 Dec 1925 Colonel William Billy Mitchell court-martial for insubordination
• 21 Dec 1925 Stork Hendry scores 325 for Victoria against New Zealand in cricket.
• 23 Dec 1925 Sultan Ibn Saud of Nedzjed conquers Djeddah.
• 25 Dec 1925 IG Farben formed by merger of six chemical companies in Germany.
• 26 Dec 1925 NHL record 141 shots as New York Americans (73) beat Pittsburgh Pirates (68) 3-1.
• 30 Dec 1925 New South Wales score 705 in cricket against Victoria, go from 8-475 to 9-701.
• 31 Dec 1925 14th congress of CPSU decides to accelerate industry.

Famous Birthday

• Carlos Castaneda

  Peruvian-American anthropologist and author (d. 1998).

• Michel Piccoli

  Paris, France -- Actor (Topaz, Peril, May Fools).

• Dick Van Dyke

  American actor and comedian.

• Pierre Bérégovoy

  French economist.

• Albert Jacquard

  French geneticist, researcher and essayist.

• Sammy Davis Jr

  American entertainer (Golden Boy), dies from throat cancer at age 64 (born 1925).

• Mahathir Mohamad
• Bert Hellinger
• Julie Harris

  American actress whose stage prominence began in 1945 and earned her five Tony awards out of a record ten nominations, with periodic...

• Jacques Lacarrière
• Hildegard Knef

  German actress who had been in 56 films by 1978, most notably the movie "Fedora.

• Jürgen Roland
• Dina Merrill

  American model, socialite and actress, the daughter of millionaire Edward F. Hutton and socialite Marjorie Meriweather Post.

• Yaffa Yarkoni
• Henri Oreiller

  French alpine skier, he won two gold medals and a bronze at the 1948 Olympics.

• Nicole Maurey
• Luciana Angiolillo
• Jimmy Smith

  American jazz organist (d. 2005).

• Bob de Moor

  Flemish comic strip artist (Kuifje, Lion of Flanders).

• Arnaldo Forlani

  Italian politician, the First Minister of Italy in 1980.

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Famous Deaths

• Vicente Arregui Garay

  Composer, dies at 54.

• Julio Garreta

  Composer, dies at 50.

• Wilhelmina E Drucker [Lensing]

  Dutch feminist, dies at 78.

• Louis Dosfel

  Flemish lawyer / literary (Assault!), dies at 44.

• Jose Ignacio Quinton

  Composer, dies at 44.

• Sergei Jessenin

  Writer, dies at 30.

• Karl Abraham

  German psychoanalyst, a student of Freud.

• Eugene Gigout

  French composer, musician and organist; published large amounts of organ music, including 400 short pieces with pedal ad lib, and church...

• Sergei Yesenin

  Russian poet (Born 1895).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Manhattan
2. Isham Jones & His Orchestra - Remember
3. Vincent Lopez & His Orchestra - Don't Wake Me Up (Let Me Dream)
4. Nick Lucas - Brown Eyes, Why are You Blue?
5. George Olsen & His Orchestra - I'm Knee Deep in Daisies (And Head Over Heels in Love)