1925

1925

Mussolini announces dictatorship over Italy.

High-water mark of this century's crazy backward-Christian mania: Scopes Monkey Trial!

The Sphinx dug out of the mountain of dirt and sand that had buried it for centuries.

NYC surpasses London as the largest city in the world.

Scotch tape invented.

born: Yukio Mishima, Jack Lemmon, Flannery O'Connor, Sammy Davis Jr., Malcolm X, Barbara Bush

died: H. Rider Haggard

Trixie Smith - You Gotta Beat Me to Keep Me