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Historical Events in November 1925

  • Nov 1 VARA, Vereniging van Workers Radio Amateurs forms in Amsterdam
  • Nov 5 British secret agent Sidney Reilly ('Ace of Spies') is executed in a forest near Moscow by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union

Socialists Disbanded

Nov 5 Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties

  • Nov 7 Italians liberal-national party joins fascist
  • Nov 9 German NSDAP (Nazi party) forms Schutzstaffel (SS)

Cosmic Rays Discovery

Nov 9 Robert A. Millikan confirms the existence of cosmic rays from outer space in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences at Madison, Wisconsin

  • Nov 11 American scientist Robert A. Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays
  • Nov 11 City of Chicago, Illinois renames Municipal Grant Park Stadium, as Soldier Field, in honor of US soldiers killed in combat during World War I
  • Nov 11 Earnest Thalmann becomes chairman of German KPD

Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five

Nov 11 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five begin their first recording session at Okeh Records in Chicago

  • Nov 11 Night of Kersten - Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn's Dutch government falls by SGP-amendement
  • Nov 12 US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts
  • Nov 14 Sidney Howard's stage drama "They Knew What They Wanted", closes at the Klaw Theatre, NYC; after 414 performances and a Pulitzer Prize win
  • Nov 16 American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)
  • Nov 16 Philip Barry's play "In a Garden" premieres in NYC

Red Grange Signs

Nov 21 Red Grange plays final Univ of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears

  • Nov 24 1st radio-broadcast of Dutch KRO (Catholic Radio Broadcast)
  • Nov 24 Eugene O'Neill Theater (Coronet, Forrest) opens at 230 W 49th St NYC
  • Nov 25 KPD proposes German Parliament expropriate possession of monarchy
  • Nov 26 Netherlands & Germany sign trade agreement
  • Nov 27 German Parliament ratifies treaty of Locarno

Aristide Briand

Nov 28 7th French government of Aristide Briand sworn-in

  • Nov 28 Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville, Tennessee

Georges Vezina

Nov 28 NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses and dies 4 months later of TB