July 1925 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1925 New York Giant Hack Wilson hits 2 HRs in 3rd inning beating Phillies, 16-7
• 03 Jul 1925 38th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Joan Fry
• 04 Jul 1925 45th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats J Borotra
• 09 Jul 1925 In Dublin, Oonagh Keogh becomes the first female member of a stock exchange in the world.
• 10 Jul 1925 Jury selection took place in John T Scopes evolution trial
• 11 Jul 1925 Queen Wilhelmina names H Colijn head of government
• 13 Jul 1925 French occupation force begins evacuating country
• 17 Jul 1925 Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits
• 18 Jul 1925 Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
• 20 Jul 1925 Beirut Sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France
• 21 Jul 1925 Monkey Trial ends-John Scopes found guilty of teaching Darwinism
• 22 Jul 1925 Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher
• 23 Jul 1925 New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers
• 24 Jul 1925 Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 and costs
• 25 Jul 1925 Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
• 31 Jul 1925 Last allied occupying troops leave Ruhrgebied

Famous Birthday

• Cathy Berberian

  American mezzo-soprano and composer based in Italy.

• Jacques Delors

  French Economist and politician, president of the Commission of the European Economic Community from 1985 to 1995.

• Merv Griffin

  American entertainer and TV host, a singer and pianist with credits in radio and nightclubs, a horse breeder, hotelier, gentleman rancher...

• Patrice Lumumba

  1st democratically elected Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1961).

• Don Jaime de Mora y Aragón
• Alain Decaux

  French author, historian and politician.

• Mikis Theodorakis

  Greek composer.

• Frantz Fanon

  French-American psychiatrist and revolutionary writer.

• Robert Hirsch

  French actor, comedian, mime, director, Jewish.

• Bill Haley

  American musician of Haley and the Comets rock group.

• Guru Dutt

  Indian filmmaker and actor (d. 1964).

• Farley Granger

  American actor who apprenticed in youthful little theater and signed a studio contract at 17.

• Elwy Yost

  Canadian TV personality, host of film reviews for Canadian TV and interviewer of some of Hollywood's top stars.

• Jacques Fabbri
• Jean Raspail

  French author, traveler and explorer.

• Villy de Luca
• Gloria DeHaven

  American actress and singer.

• André Boucourechliev
• Ignace Heinrich

  French Olympic field and track star who won the decathlon in London, 1948.

• Jacques Derogy

  French journalist, a reporter at Libération newspaper, 1948-1960, at l’Express, 1959-1987 and at l’Évènement du Jeudi from1987.

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Famous Deaths

• Erik Alfred Leslie Satie

  French Composer (Dreamy Fish), dies at 59.

• Jan P Veth

  Dutch Painter / lithographer / art historian, dies at 61.

• Hjalmar Borgstrom

  Composer, dies at 61.

• Gerben Postma [Ids]

  Fries writer (Lytse Fryske Spraekleare).

• William Jennings Bryan

  Christian fundamentalist, five days after public humiliation at the "Monkey Trial" of John Scopes.

• Clarence Hudson

  White American photographer (Born 1871).

• Pancho Villa

  Filipino boxer (Born 1901).

• Louis Nazaire Begin

  Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Quebec (Born 1840).

• Antonio Ascari

  Italian racing driver (Born 1888).

• Erik Satie

  French composer and pianist whose bold harmonics were studied by other composers.

• Gottlob Frege

  German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1925).

• Pancho Villa

  Filipino boxer (Born 1901).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Carl Fenton & His Orchestra - Midnight Waltz
2. Isham Jones & His Orchestra - Riverboat Shuffle
3. Grace Moore (Rosario Bourdon's Orchestra) - Tell Her in the Springtime
4. Louise Homer - America the Beautiful
5. Eddie Cantor - If You Knew Susie