The following are events that happened in the United States in the year 1925.
January–March

• January 5 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes Governor of Wyoming, the first female governor in the United States. Twelve days later, Miriam A. Ferguson becomes first female governor of Texas.
• January 27 – February 1 – The 1925 serum run to Nome(the "Great Race of Mercy") relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. territory of Alaska, to combat an epidemic.
• February 21 – First issue of The New Yorker magazine is published by Gaven Sydnes.[1]
• March 4 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio.
• March 15 – The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity (original name "The Aztecs") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teacher's College in Conway, Arkansas (now the University of Central Arkansas).
• March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado rampages through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana. The storm's damage path was indicated at 378 km (235 mi).[2]
• March 21 – Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signs the Butler Act, prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the state's public schools.
• March 31 – Radio station WOWO in Ft. Wayne, Indiana begins broadcasting.

April–June

• April 1 – Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leave Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states.
• April 10 – F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
• April 18 – University of Miami chartered in Coral Gables, Florida.
• May 5 – Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee, biology teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
• May 8 – African American Tom Lee rescues 32 people from the M.E. Norman, a steamboat sinking in the Mississippi.
• June 6 – The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.
• June 13 – Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines, and a mechanical system. A 10-minute film of a miniature windmill in motion is sent across 5 miles from Anacostia to Washington, D.C.The images are viewed by representatives of the National Bureau of Standards, the U.S. Navy, the Department of Commerce, and others. Jenkins calls this "the first public demonstration of radiovision".
• June 27 – The 6.6 M Montana earthquake affects the central part of the state with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). Because the affected area is mostly rural, financial losses are limited to $150,000, though the damage is considered severe.[3]
• June 29 – The 6.8 M Santa Barbara earthquake affects the central coast of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), destroying much of downtown Santa Barbara, California and leaving 13 people dead.

July–September

• July 10 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
• July 21 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
• August 14 – The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
• September 3 – The U.S. Navy dirigible Shenandoah breaks up in a squall line over Ohio en route to Scottfield, St. Louis; 14 crewmen are killed.
• September 1 to 30 – In the first year for which statewide data are reliable, this month with a statewide average water equivalent of 7.54 inches (191.5 mm) remains Alaska’s wettest calendar month on record.[4]

October–December

• November 28 – The weekly country music radio program Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "WSM Barn Dance".
• December 16 – Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity, is founded at Lafayette College.

Undated

• New York City becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from London.[5]
• The motel concept originates with the Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo, California, originally called the Milestone Mo-Tel, constructed by Arthur Heineman.
• The National Football League adds 5 teams: the New York Giants, Detroit Panthers, Providence Steam Roller, a new Canton Bulldogs team, and the Pottsville Maroons.
• Calvin Coolidge signs into law the act establishing a U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services System.[6]

Ongoing

• Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
• U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
• Prohibition (1919–1933)
• Roaring Twenties (1920–1929)

References

1. Jones, Neal T., ed. (1984). A Book of Days for the Literary Year. New York; London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-01332-2.
2. Johns, Robert H. (2013). "The 1925 Tri-State Tornado Damage Path And Associated Storm System". Electronic Journal of Severe Storms Metereology: 1–33.
3. Stover, C. W.; Coffman, J. L. (1993), Seismicity of the United States, 1568–1989 (Revised) – U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1527, United States Government Printing Office, pp. 268–270
4. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Alaska Precipitation: September
5. Matt Rosenberg. "Largest Cities Through History". About.com.
6. Evjen, Victor H. (2014). "The Federal Probation System: The Struggle To Achieve It And Its First 25 Years". Federal Probation: 1–17.

External links

•  Media related to 1925 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons