1925

1925 Wikipedia Summary

Youtube Playlist (click top right icon for songtitles) January January 1 The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria. January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies.[1] Historians now trace the beginning of Mussolini’s dictatorship to this speech. January 5 – NellieContinue Reading

BOOK: The Great Gatsby (1925)

Literature

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway‘s interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby’s obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and theContinue Reading

SONG: Manhattan

Song

In 1925, Florida passed a law requiring daily reading of the Bible in public schools. Forty-five thousand members of the Ku Klux Klan marched in Washington, D.C. In July, Tennessee public school teacher John Scopes was placed on trial and convicted for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution. President Coolidge reducedContinue Reading

Popular Hits 1925

Song

This is a playlist of commercial recordings and songs that proved popular during the calendar year 1925 (some were recorded in 1924) via sales, sheet music, and radio exposure.…plus some others that have gained increased recognition or have been shown to have had an impact during the decades that followed.Continue Reading