September 1925 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1925 Pierre de Coubertin steps down as Chairman of International Olympic Committee
• 03 Sep 1925 Dirigible Shenandoah crashes near Caldwell, Ohio, USA; 13 die.
• 05 Sep 1925 29th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones
• 12 Sep 1925 20th Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia
• 13 Sep 1925 1st US University for Blacks, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans
• 18 Sep 1925 Bill Tilden wins 6th straight US tennis championship
• 19 Sep 1925 45th US Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston
• 23 Sep 1925 Washington shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh is named AL MVP
• 26 Sep 1925 8th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Olympia Fields Country Club - Matteson, Illinois
• 27 Sep 1925 Feast of the Cross according to the Old Calendar A celestial cross appears over Athens, Greece, while the Greek Police pursues a group of Greek Old Calendarists. The phenomenon lasts for half an hour.
• 29 Sep 1925 French General of Morocco, marshal Lyautey, is dismissed

Famous Birthday

• Carlo Rambaldi

  Italian artist whose greatest fame came with the technical creation of creatures in film making.

• Peter Sellers

  British-American actor, a comedy and bizarre character star best known for the "Pink Panther" series, along with "The Mouse that Roared.

• B B King

  American musician.

• Christian Cabrol

  Chezy sur Marne physician.

• Silvana Pampanini

  Italian film actress of the 1950s, one of the first Italian superstars and a great beauty.

• Viviane Forrester
• Jean-François Calvé

  French actor who died on 8 October 2014 in Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames (Seine-et-Marne).

• Erika Köth
• Steve Forrest (actor)
• Gérard Darrieu

  French theatre, film and television actor, who died on 22 January 2004 in Paris.

• Mel Tormé

  American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999).

• Charles Haughey

  Irish accountant lawyer and politician 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2006).

• Marty Robbins

  American country-western singer and composer who had 43 records in the Top Ten, composing over 500 songs in a 30-year career.

• Eleonora Rossi Drago

  Italian sensual leading lady of Italian and international films, including "Dorian Gray," "David and Goliath" and "Under Ten Flags.

• Seymour Cray

  American computer technician, the Thomas Edison of the supercomputing industry who aimed to create the fastest computer in the world.

• John Tower

  American politician and autobiographer, a former insurance salesman, radio announcer and teacher.

• Pete Murray

  British radio deejay, a regular panelist on the British music revue show "Juke Box Jury" from 1959.

• Art Pepper

  American musician playing a jazz alto tenor saxophone.

• Jean-Charles Tacchella

  French journalist, film critic, scriptwriter and director.

• Rama VIII

  King of Siam (1935-46), dies at 21.

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Famous Deaths

• E Runar Schildt

  Finnish writer (Galgmannen), dies at 36.

• Leopold Fall

  Composer, dies at 52.

• Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman

  Russian physicist (Born 1888).

• Leon Bourgeois

  French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1851).

• Leo Fall

  Austria operetta Composer (That Pink von Stambul).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Jack Shilkret & His Orchestra - If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)
2. Georgie Price - Isn't She the Sweetest Thing?
3. Ray Miller & His Orchestra - Moonlight and Roses
4. Ben Bernie & His Orchestra - Cheatin' on Me
5. Blossom Seeley - Yes Sir, That's My Baby