May 1925 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1925 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony.
• 04 May 1925 League of Nations conference on arms control and poison gas usage.
• 05 May 1925 Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases)
• 06 May 1925 Ty Cobb hits his 5th HR in 2 games tying Cap Ansons record of 1884
• 08 May 1925 French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco.
• 09 May 1925 Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid
• 11 May 1925 Communist Party of Holland splits
• 12 May 1925 Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament.
• 14 May 1925 Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
• 16 May 1925 51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6.
• 17 May 1925 Cleveland Indians' Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit.
• 21 May 1925 Canadians allow to sell beer
• 25 May 1925 Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
• 26 May 1925 Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, 5 weeks after ulcer surgery
• 29 May 1925 The British explorer Percy Fawcett sends a last telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.
• 30 May 1925 Peter DePaolo becomes first man to average over 100 mph at Indianapolis 500.

Famous Birthday

• Malcolm X

  American activist who came from humble roots to rise to a position of national prominence as a civil rights activist.

• Loleh Bellon
• Pol Pot

  Cambodian politician, a dictator responsible for the deaths of about two million Cambodians during his rule from 1976-79.

• Jean Tinguely

  Swiss-born artist, a kinetic sculptor and pop artist.

• Yogi Berra

  American athlete, a Hall-of-Fame baseball player, record-setting catcher, great clutch-hitter, and coach/manager known for "yogi-isms" such...

• Gabriele Amorth

  Italian ecclesiastic, a Roman Catholic priest.

• Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  German baritone singer of opera and of classical songs.

• Jeanne Crain

  American actress and 16-year-old former model whose wholesome and innocent looks won her the title of Miss Long Beach in 1941.

• Bülent Ecevit

  Turkish journalist scholar and politician 16th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2006).

• François Maistre
• Garth Allen

  American astrologer, a siderealist and senior editor of "American Astrology.

• Sylviane Aladin

  France Actor.

• Michel de Certeau
• Mai Zetterling

  Actress (Night is My Future), dies of cancer at 68.

• Scott Carpenter

  American astronaut-aquanaut; the second U.S.

• Dino Attanasio
• Claude Pinoteau
• Jean-Paul Aron
• André-Paul Duchâteau
• Marcel Bluwal

  French film director and screenwriter.

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Famous Deaths

• Artur Napoleao dos Santos

  Composer, dies at 82.

• Boris V Savinkov

  Russian writer / terrorist.

• Henry Rider Haggard

  English writer (Dawn, She).

• William Hesketh Lever

  First Viscount Leverhulme (Born 1851).

• H Rider Haggard

  English author (Born 1856).

• Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

  German historian (Born 1876).

• Ed McKeever

  president (Brooklyn Dodgers), dies of pneumonia.

• Alfred Milner

  British Governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at age 71.

• John [Denton Pinkstone] French

  British field marshall (WWI), dies at age 72.

• Amy Lowell

  American writer, a poet and author of a dozen volumes of verse.

• Boris Savinkov

  Russian writer and terrorist (Born 1879).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Carl Fenton & His Orchestra - Oh! Lady Be Good
2. Philadelphia Orchestra (Leopold Stokowski, Conductor) - The Fire Bird, Part 1
3. Gene Austin & Aileen Stanley - When My Sugar Walks Down The Street
4. Vincent Lopez & His Orchestra - O Katharina!
5. Isham Jones & His Orchestra - Alabamy Bound