1925 in the United States
overview of USA-related events during the year of 1925
Events from the year 1925 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Calvin Coolidge (R-Massachusetts)
Vice President:
vacant (until March 4)
Charles G. Dawes (R-Illinois) (starting March 4)
Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (Ohio)
Speaker of the House of Representatives:
Frederick H. Gillett (R-Massachusetts) (until March 4)
Nicholas Longworth (R-Ohio) (starting December 7)
Senate Majority Leader: Charles Curtis (R-Kansas)
Congress: 68th (until March 4), 69th (starting March 4)
State governments
Events
January–March
January 5–April 1 – Celia Cooney, "the Bobbed Hair Bandit", and her husband Ed go on an armed robbery spree in Brooklyn while she is pregnant. On April 21 they are arrested in Florida.
January 27–February 1 – The 1925 serum run to Nome (the "Great Race of Mercy") relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. Territory of Alaska to combat an epidemic.
February 21 – First issue of The New Yorker magazine is published under the editorship of Harold Ross.
March 2 – In an appeal originating in a Prohibition era bootlegging case, Carroll v. United States is decided in the Supreme Court, affirming the motor vehicle exception, that a warrantless search of an automobile does not contravene the Fourth Amendment, subject to probable cause and exigent circumstances.
March 4 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first president of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio. Charles G. Dawes is sworn in as the 30th vice president.
March 15 – The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity (original name "The Aztecs") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teacher's College in Conway, Arkansas (the modern-day University of Central Arkansas).
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