The Year 1925 - What else was happening?


Calvin Coolidge said, "The business of America is business"

T.S. Eliot wrote: "This is the way the world ends
                                not with a bang but a whimper"

"Dinah" and "Sweet Georgia Brown" were hit songs

Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington made their first recordings

Lawrence Welk started a new band

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby

Adolph Hitler wrote Mein Kampf

The first working television set was produced by Charles Jenkins

Rogers Hornsby won the triple crown in baseball

Nellie Ross, of Wyoming, became the nation's first female governor

"Rin Tin Tin" and "The Phantom of the Opera" opened at movie theaters

40,000 KKKers marched in Washington, D.C.

Flagpole sitting became a national fad

Earl Wise invented the potato chip

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