October 1925 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1925 Mount Rushmore is dedicated.
• 02 Oct 1925 John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
• 05 Oct 1925 WSM-AM in Nashville Tenn begins radio transmissions
• 08 Oct 1925 Cubana de Aviación founded.
• 11 Oct 1925 Belgian episcopelian sspeaks against Flemish activism
• 12 Oct 1925 Albert Michelsen runs world record marathon
• 14 Oct 1925 An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.)
• 15 Oct 1925 Pittsburgh Pirates beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series.
• 16 Oct 1925 Peace accord of Locarno signed
• 18 Oct 1925 Salt Lake City (PCL) Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th HR of the season
• 19 Oct 1925 Italian army takes Somalia
• 21 Oct 1925 Sidney Howards Lucky Sam McGarver, premieres in New York City
• 25 Oct 1925 Lester Patrick takes over New York Rangers
• 27 Oct 1925 Water skis patented by Fred Waller.
• 30 Oct 1925 KUT-AM in Austin TX begins radio transmissions
• 31 Oct 1925 Cossack officer Reza Chan replaces Sultan Ahmad Shah in Persia

Famous Birthday

• Margaret Thatcher

  British politician who became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and was one of the most powerful women in the world in...

• Johnny Carson

  American TV personality who began as the host of The Tonight Show on October 1, 1962, reportedly for $100,000 a year, retiring on May 22,...

• Angela Lansbury

  British-American actress who achieved stardom in the '60s, first as a Broadway musical star in "Mame" then, from September 1984, as Jessica...

• Roger Hanin

  French actor and film director, best known for playing the title role in the 1989–2006 TV police drama, Navarro.

• Gore Vidal

  American playwright, critic, novelist and essayist, one of the great stylists of contemporary American prose.

• Robert Rauschenberg

  American artist, painter, sculptor and silkscreen artist, considered one of the most influential figures in avant-garde art since the '50s.

• Celia Cruz

  Cuban salsa singer (Born 1924).

• Lenny Bruce

  American satirical nightclub comedian, known for biting and controversial subject matter, who changed the landscape of standup comedy and...

• José Cardoso Pires
• Luciano Berio

  Italian-American composer and educator.

• José Beyaert
• Joseph F Goodavage
• Jacques Coutela

  French Wiccan high priest who descended into black masses, orgies and murder.

• Elmore Leonard

  US writer (Glitz, Mr Majestyk, Touch, 52 Pick-Up).

• Bob Azzam

  Egyptian-Monacan singer (d. 2004).

• Jean-François Devay
• Ernesto Montgomery

  Jamaican clairvoyant, faith healer, advisor and minister who was assigned by British Intelligence, at the age of 16, to work on the invasion...

• Roger Nimier
• Robert Hardy

  English actor.

• Dory Previn

  American songwriter, actress, model, chorus girl and lyricist.

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Famous Deaths

• Max Linder

  French actor in stage and film, writer and director.

• Karl M Lybeck

  Fin / Swedish language Poet (Samlade Arbeten), dies at 71.

• Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Karatigin

  Composer, dies at 50.

• Wilhelm Gericke

  Composer, dies at 80.

• Jindrich S Baar

  Czech pastor / writer (Lusy), dies at 56.

• Abraham PC of Karnebeek

  Liberal Foreign Minister (1918-27).

• Hubert Platt Main

  Composer, dies at 86.

• Christy Mathewson

  American baseball player and manager (d. 1925).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Ben Bernie & His Orchestra - Are You Sorry?
2. Billy Jones & Ernest Hare - I Miss My Swiss (My Swiss Miss Misses Me)
3. Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra - Sugar Foot Stomp
4. Isham Jones & His Orchestra - I'm Tired of Everything but You
5. Isham Jones & His Orchestra - Ida I Do