Today in History for May 1925

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 30 of 30

1st - A's Jimmie Foxx, 17, 1st game; he pinch-hits a single
1st - Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
2nd - Kezar Stadium in SF's Golden Gate Park opens
4th - League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage
5th - John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
5th - Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases)
5th - Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak
5th - Afrikaans is established as an official language in South Africa.
6th - Ty Cobb hits his 5th HR in 2 games tying Cap Ansons record of 1884
7th - Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row
7th - Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play
8th - 51st Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Coventry wins in 1:59
8th - French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco
9th - Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid
11th - Communist Party of Holland splits
11th - Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region constituted in RSFSR
12th - Uzbekistan & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics
12th - Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament
14th - Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
Author Virginia Woolf 16th - 51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6
17th - Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit
21st - Canadians allow to sell beer
21st - George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt
21st - Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole
26th - Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, 5 weeks after ulcer surgery
26th - Tigers' Ty Cobb is 1st to collect 1,000 extra-base hits (ends 1,139)
30th - British mariners shoot on demonstrators
30th - Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy
30th - Rogers Hornsby replaces Branch Rickey as manager of Cardinals
30th - In China protests erupt against the Great Powers infringing on Chinese sovereignty.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 51 of 51

1st - Chuck Bednarik, Penn, NFL hall of fame center/linebacker (Phila)
1st - Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Boulder Colo, astronaut (Mercury 7-Aurora 7)
2nd - David Ironside, cricketer (S Afr swing bowler in 3 Tests v NZ 1953-54)
2nd - Roscoe Lee Browne, Woodbury NJ, actor (McCoy, Saunders-Soap)
2nd - Svatopluk Havelka, composer
2nd - John Neville, English theatre and film actor
3rd - Nina Bara, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Tonga-Space Patrol)
4th - Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet (Capricorn)
4th - Maurice R. Greenberg, American businessman
5th - Monica Lewis, actress (Box Office)
5th - Leo Ryan, United States Congressman (d. 1978)
5th - Mykola Plaviuk, Rusiv, Poland, Ukranian president (1978-81), (d. 2012)
6th - Patrick Meany, CEO (Rank Organization)
8th - Ali Hassan Mwinyi, president of Tanzania (1985- )
8th - Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, lord of appeal in ordinary
9th - Peter Leng, Master General of the Ordnance
10th - Edward Fursdon, British Maj-Gen (defense council)
11th - Rhodes Boyson, MP
11th - Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2006)
12th - John Simon, theater critic (NY Times)
12th - Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, catcher/coach/manager (NY Yankees, Mets)
12th - Tony Hancock, Birmingham England, actor (Rebel, Wrong Box)
14th - Patrice Munsel, Spokane Wash, soprano (Patrice Munsel Show)
14th - Tristram Ogilvie Cary, composer
14th - Al Porcino, American jazz trumpet player
15th - Andrey Yakoulevich Eshpay, composer
15th - Emmanuel Ghent, composer
15th - Jos Jacobs, Flemish director (Madonna of Nedermunster)
16th - Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian entertainer
African American Activist Malcolm X (19th) 19th - Malcolm X, [Little], [Detroit Red], Omaha NB, founder (Black Muslims)
19th - Guy Provost, French Canadian actor (d. 2004)
20th - D French Slaughter Jr, (Rep-R-VA, 1985- )
20th - Chester Ludgin, American baritone (d. 2003)
22nd - Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (movement objects)
22nd - James King, American tenor (d. 2005)
23rd - Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
23rd - Mac Wiseman, American musician
24th - Francois J [Frank] le Roux, chief whip (South Afr Conserv Party)
24th - Mai Zetterling, Vaeras Sweden, actress (Witches, Offbeat, Jet Storm)
25th - Aldo Clementi, composer
25th - Jeanne Crain, Barstow California, actress (Man Without a Star)
25th - Don Liddle, baseball player (d. 2000)
26th - Alec McCowen, Tunbridge Wells England, actor (Never Say Never Again)
27th - John Moberly, diplomat
27th - Tony Hillerman, American writer
28th - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Zehlendorf Germany, baritone (Doktor Faust), (d. 2012)
28th - Martha Vickers, Ann Arbor MI, actress (Alimony, Man I Love, Ruthless)
29th - Kenneth Couzens, CEO (Coal Products)
30th - Claude Prey, composer
30th - Eddy Bruma, Suriname politician
30th - Gerard John Toorenaar, political commissar in Amsterdam (1975-79)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 10 of 10

7th - William Hesketh Lever, First Viscount Leverhulme (b. 1851)
12th - Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at 71
12th - Amy Lowell, writer, dies at 51
12th - Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer, dies at 82
12th - Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)
13th - Boris V Savinkov, Russian writer/terrorist, dies
14th - Henry Rider Haggard, English writer (Dawn, She), dies
22nd - John [Denton Pinkstone] French, Brit field marshall (WWI), dies at 72
27th - Ed McKeever, pres (Bkln Dodgers), dies of pneumonia
30th - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b. 1876)