1 : 1925
2 : Events
2.1 : January-June
2.2 : July-December
3 : Year in topic
4 : Births
4.1 : January
4.2 : February-March
4.3 : April-September
4.4 : October-December
5 : Deaths
6 : Nobel Prizes
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years: 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 - 1925 - 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930
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Events
January-June
July-December
- 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 10 - The official news agency of the Soviet Union called the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
- July 18 - Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
- 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.
- October 30 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
- November 28 - Country-variety show Grand Ole Opry makes its radio debut on station WSM (it would later become the longest-running live music show).
- December 1 - World War I aftermath: Locarno Treaties - The final Locarno Pact is signed in London, establshing post-war territorial settlements in return for normalizing relations with defeated Germany.
- December 15 - Reza Pahlavi takes his imperial oath and becomes Shah of Iran.
- Modern revival of ancient Latvian mythology begins, called Dievturiba
- Scopes Trial testing a law favouring Creationism over Evolution.
- Sweden decides on extensive disarmament.
- Spanish and French expeditionary forces landing at Alhucemas during the war of the Rif.
- Vladimir Zworykin takes out the first patent for colour television
- The Woodcraft Folk, an organisation for young people to promote equality, peace, social justice and cooperation, founded in London.
- Introduction of London's first double decker buses.
- Britain returns to the Gold Standard.
Year in topic
Births
January
- January 6 - John De Lorean, auto maker
- January 8 - James Saunders, dramatist
- January 10 - Max Roach, drummer, composer
- January 11 - Grant Tinker, television executive
- January 11 - William Styron, writer
- January 13 - Gwen Verdon, actress, dancer (d. 2000)
- January 14 - Yukio Mishima, writer (d. 1970)
- January 20 - Ernesto Cardenal, theologian, author and politician
- January 21 - Benny Hill, comedian, actor (d. 1992)
- January 24 - Maria Tallchief, prima ballerina
- January 26 - Paul Newman, actor
- January 30 - Dorothy Malone, actress
- January 31 - Benjamin Hooks, head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
February-March
- February 1 - Alfred Grosser, political scientist and publicist
- February 2 - Elaine Stritch, actress
- February 4 - Russell Hoban, writer
- February 8 - Jack Lemmon, actor and film director (d. 2001)
- February 11 - Peter Berger, British Vice-Admiral.
- February 11 - Kim Stanley, actress.
- February 11 - Virginia Johnson, doctor/sexologist.
- February 12 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician
- February 17 - Hal Holbrook, actor
- February 18 - George Kennedy, actor
- February 20 - Robert Altman, film director
- February 20 - Heinz Kluncker, labor union leader
- February 21 - Sam Peckinpah, director (d. 1984)
- February 25 - Edward Gorey, illustrator (d. 2000)
- March 4 - Paul Mauriat, musician
- March 25 - Flannery O'Connor, author (d. 1964)
- March 26 - Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor
April-September
- April 2 - Hans Rosenthal, showmaster (d. 1987)
- April 2 - George MacDonald Fraser, author
- April 3 - Tony Benn, British politician
- April 14 - Rod Steiger, actor
- April 25 - Sammy Drechsel, journalist, film director and cabaretist (d. 1986)
- May 6 - Hanns Dieter Hüsch, cabaretist
- May 12 - Yogi Berra, Baseball Hall of Famer
- May 19 - Pol Pot - Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)
- May 19 - Malcolm X (d. 1965)
- May 22 - Jean Tinguely, kinetic artist (d. 1991)
- May 28 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
- June 26 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (d. 1970)
- July 6 - Merv Griffin, game show developer, TV show host
- July 6 - Bill Haley, rock and roll musician.
- July 18 - Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete
- July 29 - Ted Lindsay, ice hockey Hall of Fame player
- August 15 - Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist
- August 19 - Claude Gauvreau, Quebec playwright, poet and polemist
- September 7 - Gerald Durrell naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter
- September 16 - Charles Haughey, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
- September 20 - James Galanos, fashion designer
October-December
- October 13 - Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister (1979-1990)
- October 16 - Angela Lansbury, American actress
- October 23 - Johnny Carson, comedian, television host
- October 24 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer
- November 17 - Charles Mackerras, conductor
- November 20 - Robert Kennedy (d. 1968)
- November 24 - William F. Buckley, Jr., author, commentator
- November 26 - Eugene Istomin, pianist (d. 2003)
- December 28 - Hildegard Knef, actress, singer and writer
Deaths
- March 12 - Sun Yat Sen, Chinese revolutionary, politician
- March 20 - George Nathaniel Curzon (Lord Curzon), British statesman
- April 14 - John Singer Sargent, artist
- May 3 - Clément Ader - french engineer and inventor
- May 12 - Amy Lowell, poet
- May 14 - H. Rider Haggard, author
- June 16 - Emmett Hardy, jazz musician (b. 1903)
- July 1 - Erik Satie - French composer
- July 26 - William Jennings Bryan - American politician.
- August 25 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf - Austro-Hungarian Chief of Staff, WWI
- September 4 – Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, horseman, member of the Vanderbilt family
- November 20 - Queen Alexandra, widow of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
- George Washington Cable - American writer
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