The Locarno Treaties were formally signed in London, intended to secure the post-war continental European territorial settlement.[1]
European delegates also agreed that troops engaging in the Occupation of the Rhineland would be greatly reduced on January 31, 1926.[2]
The Farmer-Labour Party was founded in Japan and dissolved two hours later upon orders from the government which claimed they had a secret communist agenda.[3]
France negotiated separate treaties with Poland and Czechoslovakia pledging mutual assistance in the event of an attack by Germany on any of the signatories.[1]
The Milner-Schialoja Agreement between the United Kingdom and Italy redrew the border between Egypt and Italian Libya, transferring Jaghbub to Italian control.[1]
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge made his third State of the Union address to the Congress, stating that "in the fundamentals of government and business the results demonstrate that we are going in the right direction. The country does not appear to require radical departures from the policies already adopted so much as it needs a further extension of these policies and the improvement of details."[13]
Agent General for Reparations to Germany Seymour Parker Gilbert released his first annual report in Berlin, announcing that Germany was making rapid advances in its industrial and economic health and was fulfilling all its Dawes Plan commitments to the last detail.[16]
The League of Nations settled the border between Greece and Bulgaria and fined the Greek government for the border violation committed during the Incident at Petrich.[1]
Italy's Fascist government signs a secret pact with Britain aimed at reinforcing Italian dominance in Ethiopia.[18]
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A League of Nations commission ruled on the Mosul Question by assigning most of the territory in the oil-rich Mosul region to Iraq, despite strong Turkish objections.[20]
The Italianization of South Tyrol became a contentious subject between Italy and Germany as a newspaper run by Gustav Stresemann ran an editorial protesting an Italian decree banning Christmas trees. "Have the most influential of the Italian politicians been abandoned by their God or their common sense, or have they without exception gone mad with their Fascist megalomania. For this newest deed can only be described as that of a crazy person", the editorial declared.[23]
The court-martial of Col. Billy Mitchell (U.S. Army) ended when he was convicted on all eight charges of insubordination. Mitchell was suspended without pay for five years, a verdict the court ruled was "lenient because of the military record of the accused during the world war."[24]
A Soviet decree announced that December 25 and 26 would be "days of rest" throughout Russia, although no mention of Christmas was made. Soviet efforts to make its citizens go to work on Christmas had been unpopular in previous years.[28]
White Hand Gang leader Richard "Pegleg" Lonergan arrived at a Christmas party in a Brooklyn speakeasy with five of his men around 3 a.m., intoxicated and uttering various racial slurs. The lights went out, shots were fired and patrons ran out in a panic. When the lights came back on, Lonergan and two of his men lay dead. Al Capone was in the club while on a visit to New York and had arranged the hit at the request of Frankie Yale; the ambush further enhanced Capone's notoriety.[31][32]
Europe began to get hit with a series of major floods. Hungary and Romania were the first to be struck hard, where Cluj-Napoca and Debrecen were inundated and about 100 people drowned.[35]
The first attempt at a worldwide New Year's celebration was made via international radio. The United States sent out musical entertainment and New Year's greetings from the consuls general of various foreign countries in New York. Evening listeners for participating stations across the United States heard a radio announcer in London say, "This is 2LO calling America and sending New Year's greetings. We have received word that the American stations are broadcasting this program and we hope that it is being relayed successfully."[37]
Belgium was hit with its worst flooding since 1876.[38]
^Rue, Larry (December 5, 1925). "All Italy Grows and Makes Put in Mussolini Grip". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 6.
^ abPeters, Francis E. (1994). Mecca: A Literary History of the Muslim Holy Land. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 397. ISBN0-691-03267-X.
^"Kip Would Hide; Wife Will Keep Affair in Court". Chicago Daily Tribune. December 6, 1925. p. 1.
^Woolley, John; Peters, Gerhard. "Third Annual Message". The American Presidency Project. Archived from the original on January 3, 2015. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
^Rue, Larry (December 15, 1925). "Pope Condemns Mussolini Law; Road to Anarchy". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 9.
^Nicola Labanca:Una guerra per l’impero. Memorie dei combattenti della campagna d'Etiopia 1935-36, Biblioteca Storica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005, ISBN978-88-151-0808-1. (pp 146-148)
^"Japan Rushes 3,500 Soldiers to Manchuria". Chicago Daily Tribune. December 16, 1925. p. 16.
^"League Gives Britain Mosul; Scores Turkey". Chicago Daily Tribune. December 16, 1925. p. 1.
^Nelson, Murray R., ed. (2013). American Sports: A History of Icons, Idols and Ideas. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO LLC. p. 751. ISBN978-0-313-39752-3.
