Tuesday, July 14, 1925. Getting out of the Ruhr and trying to kick them out of Vietnam.

French and Belgian troops began to depart the Ruhr.

The Tân Việt Revolutionary Party, which advocated independence from France of a "New Vietnam", was founded by Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai.  It was not a communist party at the time, but by 1929, would become so.

It's notable in that its founder, Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai.was a woman.  She was executed by the French in 1941.

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Monday, July 13, 1925. Pregnant lady.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Apostolic Christianity, Art, Cartoons, Christianity, Czechoslovakia, Greek Orthodox Church, Orthodox, Personalities, Prehistory, religion, Sex, Turkey, Women

Monday, July 13, 1925. Pregnant lady.

Archbishop Vasileios Georgiadis was elected by his peers as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

A figurine of a pregnant woman was unearthed in Czechoslovakia that is believed to be 31,000 years old, one of the oldest examples of the same.

Walt Disney married Lillian Bounds in Idaho.

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Saturday, July 11, 1925. Spain and Morocco agree to cooperate.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Art, Norman Rockwell, Rif War, Sports, Teenagers, Women

Saturday, July 11, 1925. Spain and Morocco agree to cooperate.

France and Spain, each occupying different portions of Morocco, agreed to cooperate in the Rif War against their common enemy, the Riffians.

It was, of course, a Saturday.

Seventeen year old Phyllis Green of London's Peckham High School for Girls broke the world record for the women's high jump, becoming the first female competitor to jump higher than five feet.

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Friday, July 10, 1925. Echoes.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Court, Evolutionary Biology, law, Tennessee, The Press, USSR, Zeitgeist

Friday, July 10, 1925. Echoes.

One of the more moronic episodes in American history, but one that oddly resonates with the spirit of the times, the Scopes Monkey Trial began in Dayton, Tennessee with jury selection.

Sounds like something that could happen right now, quite frankly.

TASS, the official news agency the Soviet Union was established.

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Thursday, July 9, 1925. Money to fight the Rifs.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, 1970s, 1979, 1979 at the Movies, France, Humor, Movies, Rif War

Thursday, July 9, 1925. Money to fight the Rifs.

The French Chamber of Deputies approved an additional 183 million francs to fight the Rif War in Morocco, where France shouldn't have been in the first place.

Oops, not the Riffs, the Riffians.*

Footnotes:

The obscure references is to 1979's The Warriors.

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Wednesday, July 8, 1925. Riffian assault.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Crime, French Empire, Illinois (Chicago), Morocco, Photography, pornography, Rif War, Sports, Water Skiing

Wednesday, July 8, 1925. Riffian assault.

Riffians launched an offensive against Fes.

Ralph Samuelson became the first person to perform a ski jump on water.

Antonio Genna of the Genna crime family became the third member of the Genna brothers to be shot to death in less than two months in the ongoing war with Capone's North Side Gang.

Pioneering photographer Clarence Hudson White of the Photo-Secession movement died.  He photographed dreamy female portraits, including nudes which debatably crossed into pornography, emphasizing, perhaps, an ongoing and developing problem in the age of film.

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Thursday, July 2, 1925. Nikolai Goitsyn executed.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Communism, Monarchy, Russia, USSR

Thursday, July 2, 1925. Nikolai Goitsyn executed.

Imperial Russia's last Prime Minister, Nikolai Goitsyn, was executed by the USSR.

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Wednesday, July 1, 1925. The Kuomintang proclaimed a new national government for the Republic of China.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Australia, Automobiles, China, Chinese Warlord Era, Ford Motor Company, Kuomintang

Wednesday, July 1, 1925. The Kuomintang proclaimed a new national government for the Republic of China.

The Kuomintang proclaimed a new national government for the Republic of China.

Ford Australia produced its first Model T.

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Sunday, June 28, 1925. Executing the Kurdish rebels.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Animals, Cats, Classical Music, Kurds, Music, Turkey, USSR

Sunday, June 28, 1925. Executing the Kurdish rebels.

Dmitri Shostakovich and his cat, June 28, 1925.

Forty Seven Kurdish participants in the Sheikh Said rebellion.

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Saturday, June 27, 1925. An earthquake in Montana.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Art, Geology, Golf, Norman Rockwell, Swimming, The written word

Saturday, June 27, 1925. An earthquake in Montana.

 

 A 6.6 magnitude occurred near Townsend Montana.

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Friday, June 26, 1925. The Gold Rush.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, 1925 at the movies, Communications, Lodging, Montana, Movies, Native Americans, telephone

Friday, June 26, 1925. The Gold Rush.

 

Released on this date in 1925.

The hotel in Browning, Montana, is still in business.

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Sunday, June 21, 1925. Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League

Labels: 1920s, 1925, 1929, China, Chinese Warlord Era, Communism, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Tuesday, June 23, 1925. The Gros Ventre Landslide.

The Gros Ventre landslide near Jackson occurred following heavy rains and a 4.0 magnitude earthquake.  Approximately 38,000,000 m3 (1.3×109 cu ft) of sedimentary rock came down the Tetons, dammed a river, and created the Lower Slide Lake.  The dam partially failed in 1927, wiping out Kelly.

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Sunday, June 21, 1925. Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League

Labels: 1920s, 1925, 1929, China, Chinese Warlord Era, Communism, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Sunday, June 21, 1925. Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League

Nguyen Ai Quoc (Ho Chi Minh) founded the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League (Việt Nam Thanh niên Cách mệnh Đồng chí Hội; chữ Hán: 越南青年革命同志會) in Guangzhou, China.  It was Vietnam's first Communist organization and had the support of the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang.

It'd dissolve due to internal splits in 1929.

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Saturday, June 20, 1925. La battaglia del grano.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Art, Autarky, Food, Heroes, Italy, Mussolini, Texas, Ukraine

Saturday, June 20, 1925. La battaglia del grano.

Benito Mussolini launched "The Battle for Grain" ("La battaglia del grano"), aimed at increasing Italy's wheat production to the point of becoming completely self-sufficient.

FWIW, today Italy uses a lot of Ukrainian wheat.

Audie Murphy was born into a sharecropping family in Hunt County, Texas.  He'd grow up under difficult conditions, learning to hunt in order to help feed his large family, and leaving school to pick cotton in fifth grade.

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Thursday, June 18, 1925. Death of Robert La Follette.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Death, German Weimar Republic, Germany, It was because of World War One, law, Monarchy, Personalities, Socialism, Wisconsin

Thursday, June 18, 1925. Death of Robert La Follette.

"Battling Bob" La Follette, Socialist Senator from Wisconsin, died at age 70.  He'd been ill since 1923.

The German  Reichsgericht, struck down a law confiscating of all the demesne lands of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to widespread public dissatisfaction.

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Wednesday, June 17, 1925. The Geneva Protocol.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Cartoons, children, It was because of World War One, law, Marriage, Soviet-Afghan War, The relationship between men and women, Vietnam War, Weapons

Wednesday, June 17, 1925. The Geneva Protocol.

The Geneva Protocol, officially the "Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare", was signed in Switzerland by representatives of Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom United States Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Denmark, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Greece, British India, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Nicaragua, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Siam, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Arguably US use of CS gas in Vietnam violated the treaty.  The USSR violated it with lethal gas in Afghanistan.

The first National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, D.C. 

The competition was won by 11-year-old Frank Neuhauser of Kentucky, who became a patent lawyer in his adulthood.

A sad Flapper Fanny went to print.

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Monday, June 15, 1925. Flying out.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, 1920s, 1925, Aircraft, baseball, Exploration, Sports

Monday, June 15, 1925. Flying out.

The Amundsen Polar Expedition team of six explorers, stranded since May 22 near the North Pole, was able to depart on Amundsen's Dornier Wal N-25 seaplane.  A second seaplane was left behind.

The Philadelphia Athletics tied the record for greatest comeback in a major league baseball game.  Trailing 14 to 2, after six innings, the Athletics scored 13 runs in the eighth inning to win, 17 to 15, tying the record set on June 18, 1911 by the Detroit Tigers against the Chicago White Sox.

Last edition:

Saturday, June 13, 1925.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Art, Education, The Roaring Twenties, The roles of men and women, Women