Top News Stories from 1925

World Events

• Locarno conferences seek to secure European peace by mutual guarantees.
• John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor, transmits human features by television.
• Adolf Hitler publishes Volume I of Mein Kampf.

U.S. Events

• Nellie Tayloe Ross takes office as governor of Wyoming (Jan. 5). She is the first woman governor in U.S. history.
• Tennessee schoolteacher John T. Scopes is arrested (May 5) for teaching the theory of evolution, forbidden by state law.
• Worst tornado in U.S. history hit Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana: 689 deaths.
• Al Capone takes over the Chicago bootlegging racket.

Economics

Sports

World Series

Stanley Cup

Wimbledon

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Football Champions

Entertainment

Events

• Radio's The Smith Family introduces the soap opera format.
• Sergei Eisenstein makes Potemkin, a revolutionary portrait of mutiny aboard a battleship. In the hands of Eisenstein, montage is raised to the highest structural role in filmmaking, serving as the unifying element of the medium.
• Ben-Hur, costing a record-setting $3.95 million to produce, is released.

Science

• Vitamin A deficiency is shown to cause night blindness.
• John Baird transmits the first television image in London.
• Leica markets Oscar Barnack's 35mm camera.

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