Irish PresidentW. T. Cosgrave appealed to the United States for food aid. Ireland's potato crop had been severely curtailed by heavy rainfall the previous summer and autumn.[2]
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed into law an air mail bill popularly known as the Kelly Air Mail Act, which relieved the government of the responsibility for air mail.[4]
Died:Jaap Eden, 51, Dutch speed skater and bicycle racer who won the world speed skating championships in 1893, 1895 and 1896, and the track cycling world championships in 1894 and 1895[5][6]
February 3, 1925 (Tuesday)
The discovery of the Taung Child fossilized skull in South Africa the previous November was first publicized.[7]
The first privately-owned bank in Bulgaria, Girdap, declared bankruptcy after more than 43 years of operation, and its three managers, Boncho Boev, Ivan Kovachev and Nikola Kovachev, were placed under arrest.[8]
The tunnel that was being used to reach trapped cave explorer Floyd Collins collapsed, requiring a new tunnel to be dug.[13]
Born:Arne Åhman, Swedish track athlete and 1948 Olympic gold medalist for the triple jump; in Nordingrå (d. 2022)
Died:
Robert Koldewey, 69, German architect and archaeologist known for his excavations of the ancient city of Babylon in modern-day Iraq from 1899 to 1914, including the discovery of the foundations of the Ishtar Gate[14]
Ten people were arrested in the Soviet Union for conspiring to assassinate Grigory Zinoviev.[17]
U.S. Attorney General Harlan F. Stone was confirmed as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in order to replace Justice Joseph McKenna, who had resigned on January 5 because of cognitive problems caused by a stroke. The U.S. Senate voted, 71 to 6, in favor of confirming Stone, who would later serve as Chief Justice of the United States.[18]
Died:
Julius Fleischmann, 53, President of The Fleischmann Company (makers of Fleischmann's Yeast) since 1897, and Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1900 to 1905, died of a heart attack while he was playing polo in Miami.[19]
Former German Chancellor Gustav Bauer resigned his Reichstag seat in disgrace, becoming the most prominent German politician to lose his job because of his involvement in the Barmat corruption scandal.[22]
In the U.S. state of New Jersey, the basketball team of Passaic High School lost after 159 consecutive victories since in almost six years, falling to the Hackensack High School Comets, 39 to 35, at Hackensack. The Passaic Indians' streak began after it had lost the New Jersey state high school championship on March 15, 1919. In the seasons since then, Passaic had outscored its opponents, by 9,413 points to 3,237.[23]
The end of the world and the Second Coming of Christ failed to take place despite a prediction of Margaret W. Rowen of California and Robert Reidt of New York, both members of the Reformed Seventh-day Adventist Church, that the world would end on February 6, 1925.[24][25] Mrs. Rowen had made the prediction as early as January 20, 1924, when she told a gathering of followers at Pomona, California that [26]
The first elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago, at the time a British crown colony, as some residents were allowed to vote for seven of the 12 seats of the Legislative Council. However, the right to vote was limited to persons who owned rental property worth at least $60. Men had to be at least 21 years old, and women at least 30, and all voters were required to understand spoken English. People who had received poor relief six months before election day were ineligible. The local candidates had to be men, literate in English, who owned property worth at least $12,000 or who received at least $960 of rent from tenants. As a result, only six percent of the population could vote.[28]
Died: "Diana of the Dunes" (Alice Mabel Gray), 43, American conservationist whose life alone in the sand dunes of the U.S. state of Indiana was instrumental in preserving the Indiana Dunes, died of kidney failure.[35]
February 9, 1925 (Monday)
Germany presented a conciliatory memorandum to France proposing a mutual guarantee of the existing border between the two countries.[36]
Emanuel Edward Klein, 80, Croatian-born British bacteriologist referred to as "the father of British microbiology"[40]
Prince Asdang Dejavudh, 35, heir to the throne of Thailand as the brother of King Vajiravudh, died of a chronic illness less than 10 months before Vajiravudh's death. As a result, their younger brother Prajadhipok would become the King of Thailand on November 25.[41]
The Roman Catholic Church, represented by Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Gasparri, signed a concordat with Poland, represented by Stanisław Grabski, 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.[43]
The U.S.-Canadian Fishing Agreement was signed, outlining fishing rights for the respective countries.[44]
Dr. Anton Höfle, Germany's Minister of Posts, was arrested on charges of bribery the day after resigning his office after being charged with accepting 120,000 Reichsmarks the year before from Julius and Henry Barmat in return for Höfle's approval of a loan of 14.5 million Marks.[45] Höfle committed suicide two months later by an overdose of sleeping pills drugs before he could be brought to trial.
Thousands of miners around Dortmund stopped work as both a sympathy gesture for the victims of the Stein mine explosion and a protest against dangerous mining conditions.[47]
Born:Lev Naumov, Soviet Russian classical pianist and composer; in Rostov (d. 2005)
February 13, 1925 (Friday)
The Sheikh Said rebellion by Kurdish nationalists broke out in southeastern Turkey as Sheikh Said led a sermon from his mosque at Dicle, urging independence after the Turkish republic had abolished the Ministry of Religion and Foundations. The next day, Said and his followers declared Diyarbekir as the capital of Kurdistan. The uprising was crushed by February 25.[49]
Former British Prime Minister H.H. Asquith, who headed the government from 1908 to 1916, took his seat in the House of Lords as the Earl of Oxford and Asquith.[57]
The ashar, a tax on farm products that had been used in the Ottoman Empire for centuries, was abolished by the Republic of Turkey.[58] Although the term literally meant "one tenth", the amount of agricultural produce turned over to the government varied depending on local law and on the time of crop, with the result that farmers would turn to alternative crops in order to be taxed at a lower rate.
Died:Robert Coryndon, 54, British colonial administrator who served as the Governor of Uganda from 1918 to 1922 and as the Governor of Kenya since 1922
February 18, 1925 (Wednesday)
The Mayflower Hotel
The historic Mayflower Hotel, nicknamed the "Hotel of Presidents" opened at 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.. In 2024, it celebrated its 100th year and is the oldest continuously operating hotel in the U.S. capital.[61]
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge suggested that an international conference be held to set limits on the size of naval vessels.[17]
New Zealand's rugby union team defeated the visiting Canadian team from Victoria, British Columbia, 68 to 4, in Toulouse, France to complete a perfect 32–0 record in their 1924–25 tour of Britain, Ireland and France. New Zealand scored a total of 838 points with only 116 points scored against them.
In a cricket match played in Melbourne, the English team defeated Australia in the 4th Test for their first win against the Australians since 1912.[17]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Aleksandar Tsankov declared that a state of war existed throughout the country amid fighting between Bulgarian and Serbian irregulars attributed to communist agitators.[70]
This is the cover date of the very first issue of The New Yorker, though not necessarily the publication date, as magazines usually date their covers ahead of time.[71]
Four months after being stripped of all of his imperial titles and privileges as the former Emperor of China, Puyi accepted an offer by the Japanese Empire to receive protection from his enemies, and left the Chinese capital of Beijing on a train bound for Tianjin.[72]
Sam Berger, 40, American boxing promoter known for promoting the 1910 Jack Johnson vs. James J. Jeffries bout, as well as being the first heavyweight champion to win an Olympic gold medal, died after an illness of more than a year.[75]
The United States and Canada signed the Lake of the Woods Treaties, 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.[76]
Germany's President Friedrich Ebert underwent an emergency appendectomy performed by August Bier, one of the foremost surgeons in Germany.[77] However, because of infection that set in, Ebert would live for only four more days.
The Guna Revolution broke out in Panama when chiefs Nele Kantule and Ologintipipilele led attacks on police 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.[80]
Illinois U.S. Senator Medill McCormick, 47, American businessman and politician, committed suicide in his hotel room at the Hamilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., one week before his term was set to expire after losing his bid for re-election. Charles S. Deneen, who had defeated McCormick in the 1924 Republican primary, was sworn in as U.S. Senator the next day.
No longer outlawed, Germany's Nazi Party was officially re-established at a convention in the same hall in Munich where Adolf Hitler had launched his failed putsch. With its launch, the organization called itself the Nationalsozialistische Freiheitspartei ("National Socialist Freedom Party"). Hitler made his first speech since his release from prison to a packed audience of over 4,000 in the hall as another 1,000 stood outside.[82]
The explosion of 38 tons of dynamite at Caju, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil's Guanabara Bay killed as many as 50 people but far less than what had originally been reported by Brazilian officials. While the first reports were that 621 people were killed and 1,379 injured,[83] a figure repeated nearly one century later online,[84] the announced death toll was revised a few days later to "less than fifty."[85]
An Ostehøvel
Norwegian carpenter and inventor Thor Bjørklund received the patent for the cheese slicer using the principles of the hand plane, with the blade located inside a slot in the utensil an "Ostehøvel", Norwegian for cheese (oste) and the plane (høvel).
A 6.2 magnitude earthquake, one of the most powerful measured in Canada in the 20th century, struck in the province of Quebec at 9:19 in the morning local time, with an epicenter in the St. Lawrence River near La Malbaie and caused damage in villages along the shores in the areas of Charlevoix and Kamouraska, but no major casualties.[89]
At Simferopol, the Central Executive Committee and Council of People's Commissars of the Crimean Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic, led by Veli Ibraimov voted to prohibit Jewish resettlement in Crimea. The resolution failed to stop the Soviet Union's efforts to relocate Soviet Jews to Crimea.[90]
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^"Rajah of Nepal, India, to Free 51,419 Slaves". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 7, 1925. p. 1.
^Eekma, Bruce (2011). A Daughter's Search for Her Father. Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse. p. 23. ISBN978-1-4620-5716-0.
^"Passaic Five Loses After 159 Victories", Chicago Daily Tribune, February 7, 1925, p.17
^"World Does Not End According to the Prophecy", The Burlington (VT) Free Press, February 7, 1925, p.1
^"World Still Here, Seeress' Forecast Subject of Probe— Los Angeles Authorities Begin Investigation of Prediction Millennium Was at Hand Because Many Believers Gave Away or Sold Their Earthly Possessions to Prepare for Event", The St. Louis Star, February 7, 1925, p.1
^"Christ will return to Earth February 6, 1925.""Another Prophesy", Redlands (CA) Daily Facts, January 21, 1924, p.1
^George John and Owen Baptiste, 50 Years of the Ballot (Trinidad Express Newspapers Ltd., 1991), pp.7-8
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^"Asquith Is Inducted as Earl of Oxford; Former Premier Takes His Seat in the Lords After Picturesque Ceremony", The New York Times, February 18, 1925, p.3
^"50 MEN ENTOMBED IN INDIANA MINE— Gas Filled Shaft Makes Rescue Work Hazardous, The Indianapolis Times, February 20, 1925, p.1
^"51 Believed Dead After Explosion in Indiana Mine; Sixteen Bodies Are Brought Out— Thirty-five Thought to Be in Wreckage", Los Angeles Times, February 21, 1925, p.1
^"U.S. and Canada Sign Lake of the Woods Treaties". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 25, 1925. p. 11.
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