A 6.2 struck Quebec with an epicenter in the St. Lawrence River near La Malbaie. It caused damage in the areas of Charlevoix and Kamouraska, but no major casualties.
The Nazi Party reconstituted itself as the Nationalsozialistische Freiheitspartei, or the National Socialist Freedom Party. . . hmmm. . . that has a familiar ring to it.
It had a new flag designed by Adolf Hitler.
President Coolidge held a press conference.
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The Wahhabi raided into Transjordan.
President Coolidge established the boundaries of Glacier Bay National Monument, which is now Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve.
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The 1925 Wyoming Legislature passed a law prohibiting the Wyoming Legislature passed a law prohibiting harsh, cruel or abusive treatment of human beings. The law was inspired by the work of E. T. Payton who worked at the State Mental Hospital.
The first electrical recording of a phonograph record was made on a Western Electric patent by the Columbia Phonograph Company.
The Guna Revolution broke out in Panama in which native peoples rose up on the islands of Tupile and Ukupseni in an attempt to create their own nation.
After a few days, a U.S. Navy cruiser arrived and a truce was negotiated to make the San Blas Islands autonomous within Panamanian rule.
The United States and Canada signed the Lake of the Woods Convention and Protocol, defining the lake's boundary line more accurately, regulating its water level, and arranging for the settlement of port damages caused by overflowing that arose from work done on the Canadian side.
This, obviously, before our currently demented occupant of the Oval Office decided that throwing rocks at Canada was fun.
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Deposed Chinese Emperor Puyi accepted a Japanese offer of projection and moved to the moved to the Japanese concession of Tianjin.
An item from Reddit's 100 Years Ago Today sub:
Truly awful.
It's really the early 1920s, not the 1970s, that gave rise to a really powerful "women's liberation" movement, although you can find it building in the decades prior to that. The 20s, however, saw it really blossom in much the same way that it would later, with much of the same goals. As with the movement in the 70s, it met with some pretty nasty counter reactions.
Coeds themselves, meaning women in college, was a fairly new thing in this form. It wasn't really until the post war economic boom of the 1920s that a lot of women began to leave home to attend college for a secondary education.
I'm not a feminist, of course, but part of the horror of the Trump years is watching these sorts of attitudes creep back in and begin to be expressed openly.
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There used to be an era when Republicans cared about conservation.
Declaring American Forest Week
Date: February 21, 1925
In proclaiming American Forest Week, I desire to bring to the attention of all our people the danger that comes from the neglect of our forests.
For several years the Nation has observed Forest Protection Week. It is fitting that this observance be enlarged. We have too freely spent the rich and magnificent gift that nature bestowed on us. In our eagerness to use that gift we have stripped our forests; we have permitted fires to lay waste and devour them; we have all too often destroyed the young growth and the seed from which new forests might spring. And though we already feel the first grip of timber shortage, we have barely begun to save and restore.
We have passed the pioneer stage and are no longer excusable for continuing this unwise dissipation of a great resource. To the Nation it means the lack of an elemental necessity and the waste of keeping idle or only partly productive nearly one-fourth of our soil. To our forest-using industries it means unstable investments, the depletion of forest capital, the disbanding of established enterprises, and the decline of one of our most important industrial groups.
Our forests ought to be put to work and kept at work. I do not minimize the obstacles that have to be met, nor the difficulty of changing old ideas and practices. We must all put our hands to this common task. It is not enough that the Federal, State, and local governments take the lead. There must be a change in our national attitude. Our industries, our landowners, our farmers, all our citizens must learn to treat our forests as crops, to be used but also to be renewed. We must learn to tend our woodlands as carefully as we tend our farms.
Let us apply to this creative task the boundless energy and skill we have so long spent in harvesting the free gifts of nature. The forests of the future must be started to-day. Our children are dependent on our course. We are bound by a solemn obligation from which no evasion and no subterfuge will relieve us. Unless we fulfill our sacred responsibility to unborn generations, unless we use with gratitude and with restraint the generous and kindly gifts of Divine Providence, we shall prove ourselves unworthy guardians of a heritage we hold in trust.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, do recommend to the Governors of the various States to designate and set apart the week of April 27 – May 3, inclusive, 1925, as American Forest Week, and, wherever practicable and not in conflict with State law or accepted customs, to celebrate Arbor Day within that week. And I urge public officials, public and business associations, industrial leaders, forest owners, editors, educators, and all patriotic citizens to unite in the common task of forest conservation and renewal.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
DONE at the city of Washington this twenty-first day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-ninth.
The New Yorker premiered.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Aleksandar Tsankov declared that an internal state of war existed in the country.
David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah was born in Fresno, California. Growing up in a family that had strong rural Californian roots, he was haunted in some ways by passing eras, which shows itself in his films. He was a film making genius whose works were nonetheless flawed by his wreckless demeanor and drug and alcohol abuse.
It was, of course, a Saturday.
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The Mayflower Hotel opened in Washington D.C. It's still operating.
Actor George Kennedy, who entered the Army during World War Two and completed sixteen years of an intended military career before a medical discharge, was born. He died in 2016 at age 91.
It's odd to think that in the planning scene in The Dirty Dozen every single actor actually had been in the service. Kennedy in the Army, Marvin in the Marine Corps, Ryan in the Marine Corps and Borgnine in the Navy.
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Kurdish rebels declared Diyarbekir as the capital of Kurdistan.
From the Reading Times, February 14, 1925.
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The Sheikh Said Rebellion by Kurdish nationalists broke out after a sermon by Sheikh Said at Dicle, urging Kurdish independence.
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The Judiciary Act of 1925 was passed, seeking to reduce the workload of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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President Coolidge signed the Federal Arbitration Act into law, allowing contractual facilitation of resolving private disputes through arbitration.
For some reason, I don't see the GOP supporting that today.
Imperial Russia's last Prime Minister Nikolai Golitsyn was arrested by the Soviets. He'd be tried and, of course, executed.
German miners in Dortmund stopped work in sympathy with the victims of the Stein mine explosion and a protest against dangerous mining conditions.
The Belgian airline SABENA (Societé anonyme belge d'Exploitation de la Navigation aérienne) started the air travel between Europe and Central Africa, the first airline to do so.
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Poland and the Roman Catholic Church signed a concordat establishing diplomatic relations, guaranteeing the full protection by the Polish government of the Catholic Church, in return for the solemn oath of allegiance by Catholic clerics to the Polish government.
Obviously something had inspired tension, but I don't really know what. What's often missed is that the early Polish government was very left leaning.
Canada, which does not wish to become a US state under any circumstances, and the US signed a fighting rights agreement.
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Weimar Germany presented a conciliatory memorandum to France proposing a mutual guarantee of the existing border between the two countries.
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The Lost World premiered.
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Parliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes with the People's Radical Party (Narodna radikalna stranka or NRS), led by Prime Minister Nikola Pašić gaining 15 seats. The populist party had evolved from a radical populist socialist party into a conservative one.
Actor Jack Lemmon was born in an elevator in Newton, Massachusetts.
Lemmon was a great actor, but personally highly insecure, something that perhaps reflects itself in his portrayal of worried characters, of which there are some very notable performances. He died in 2001 at age 76.
Radical environmentalist Alice Mabel Gray died at age 43.
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The serum run ended in success with Balto and Kassen, and team, coming in at 5:30 a.m.
President Coolidge signed the Air Mail Act of 1925 turning over air mail to private contractors, which in turn was a boon for US civil aviation.
Up to then mail order entity Sears, Roebuck, & Co. opened its first department store at 8:30 a.m. in the morning at its its headquarters at Homan Avenue and Arthington Street in Chicago.
Actress Elaine Stritch was born in Detroit.
I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.
Elaine Stritch
M'eh.
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The final leg of the serum run began with Gunnar Kaasen setting out with lead dog Balto. The Norwegian born Kaasen is the only musher who became famous due to the event.
The story made the first page of the Tribune:
Ahmed Zog became the first President of Albania. He'd later be its first king. . . sort of a cautionary tale there.
Irish President W. T. Cosgrave appealed to the United States for food aid as the country's potato crop had been severely reduced due to excess rain.
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The longest part of the Serum Run was undertaken by Leonhard Seppala with lead dog Togo. They ran through the dark across the dangerous ice of Norton Sound.
Seppala was Kven, a group related to the Lapps. He's a major figure in the history of the Siberian Husky dog breed.
The Saturday magazines were out.
