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The following events occurred in March 1925:

March 1, 1925 (Sunday)

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  • Elections were held in Luxembourg for the 47-seat parliament, Der Chamber. The conservative Rietspartei, led by Prime Minister Émile Reuter, lost four seats from its 26 seat majority.[1] While the Rietspartei retained a plurality with 22, it refused to form a coalition with any party that had voted against the railway treaty with Belgium, prompting other parties to form a new government.
 
"Ein Schilling", worth "Zehntausend Kronen"

March 2, 1925 (Monday)

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March 3, 1925 (Tuesday)

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  • İsmet İnönü formed a cabinet for the fourth time as Prime Minister of Turkey after the resignation of Fethi Okyar and Okyar's ministers. His first act on taking office as to invoke the "Law for the Maintenance of Order" in order to control the Kurdish rebellion, giving the government emergency powers to close organizations deemed to be subversive.[12]
  • The United Kingdom followed the example of other nations owed indemnities from the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, agreeing to use its share of several million dollars to support railway construction in China. France followed suit on April 12, 1925.
  • The United States Congress authorized the Mount Rushmore Memorial Commission.
  • Born:
    • Rino Luigi "Joe" Sentieri, Italian singer and film actor; in Genoa (d. 2007)[13]
    • Richard Battin, American computer scientist who oversaw the design of the compact Apollo guidance computer used on the Apollo programs lunar missions; in Atlantic City, New Jersey (d.2014)J.M. Lawrence (February 23, 2014). "Richard H. Battin, 88; developed and led design of guidance, navigation and control systems for Apollo flights - Metro". The Boston Globe. Retrieved April 7, 2014.</ref>
  • Died:

March 4, 1925 (Wednesday)

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President Coolidge giving his inaugural address
  • The second inauguration of Calvin Coolidge took place in Washington, D.C. It was the first U.S. presidential inauguration to be nationally broadcast on radio.[15]
  • The Federal Probation Act was signed into law in the U.S., giving federal courts the option to sentence defendants to probation instead of a federal prison sentence following conviction of a crime, as well as creating a system of probation and parole officers.
  • Born:
  • Died:
    • John Montgomery Ward, 65, American baseball pitcher, inductee to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, known for having the lowest ERA in major league baseball in 1878, and leader in strikeouts and games won in 1879, all in the National League[18]
    • Moritz Moszkowski, 70, Polish composer;
    • James Ward, 82, English philosopher and psychologist;

March 5, 1925 (Thursday)

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March 6, 1925 (Friday)

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March 7, 1925 (Saturday)

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March 8, 1925 (Sunday)

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March 9, 1925 (Monday)

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  • Bavaria imposed a two-year ban on Adolf Hitler from public speaking, limiting him to addressing only private, closed meetings. The government was nervous at the large crowds Hitler was drawing.[24][25]
  • Died: Willard Metcalf, 66, American artist

March 10, 1925 (Tuesday)

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March 11, 1925 (Wednesday)

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  • The League of Nations shelved all action on limiting the private manufacture of arms. The move was made ahead of the conference on limitation of arms trafficking to open on May 4, on the grounds that the United States would oppose such action on the grounds of such business being too lucrative.[27]

March 12, 1925 (Thursday)

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March 13, 1925 (Friday)

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  • The Soviet newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda was founded as the periodical for members of the Communist Party youth organization, Komsomol.
  • In Halle, Germany, six Communists were killed and 30 wounded when police broke up a communist demonstration.[30]
  • Died: Lucille Ricksen (stage name for Ingeborg Ericksen), 14, American child actress known for portraying older women in silent films, died of tuberculosis.[31]

March 14, 1925 (Saturday)

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  • The Council of the League of Nations expressed hope that Germany would apply to join in September.[32]
  • France's Senate Finance Committee voted to maintain its embassy at the Vatican, over the wishes of Prime Minister Édouard Herriot.[33]
  • Died: Walter Camp, 65, American college football coach known as "The Father of American Football" for his remaking of the rules of the gridiron game, including the system of downs for gaining a specific amount of yardage from the location where first down started, and for creating the line of scrimmage for a specific place on the field[34]

March 15, 1925 (Sunday)

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New Mexico's flag

March 16, 1925 (Monday)

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March 17, 1925 (Tuesday)

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  • Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Edvard Beneš proposed a "United States of Europe", divided into two groups of roughly equal power, to secure peace. England, France, Belgium, Germany and Spain could make up the western bloc, while Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Austria and others could make up the eastern bloc.[37]
  • An explosion at a coal mine near Barrackville, West Virginia killed 33 miners.[38]

March 18, 1925 (Wednesday)

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The headline in New York's Herald-Examiner nespaper

March 19, 1925 (Thursday)

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March 20, 1925 (Friday)

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March 21, 1925 (Saturday)

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March 22, 1925 (Sunday)

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March 23, 1925 (Monday)

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March 24, 1925 (Tuesday)

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March 25, 1925 (Wednesday)

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March 26, 1925 (Thursday)

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  • A fistfight broke out in the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Upon Benito Mussolini's return to the Chamber after an absence of 40 days, Fascists cheered and sang "Giovinezza", while the Communists countered with "The Internationale". Fascists rushed the Communist benches and punches were exchanged until the Communists left the Chamber and order was restored.[51]
  • Germany announced that holders of German war bonds would receive a refund of 5 percent of their original investment. Winners of a lottery would receive a refund of up to 25 percent.[52]
  • The British armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi was launched.
  • Born: Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor; in Montbrison, Loire (d. 2016)[53]

March 27, 1925 (Friday)

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March 28, 1925 (Saturday)

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March 29, 1925 (Sunday)

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  • The German presidential election was held to choose a successor to Friedrich Ebert, who died in office February 28. Karl Jarres came in first with 38.8% of the vote, but because no candidate won a majority a run-off election was set for April 26.[56]
  • Japan passed a suffrage bill expanding voting rights to 4 million citizens who were previously barred from voting on account of their dependence on public or private assistance for their livelihood.[57]
  • Born: Bobby Hutchins, child film actor known for portraying "Wheezer" in the Our Gang short films; in Tacoma, Washington (killed in plane crash, 1945)

March 30, 1925 (Monday)

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March 31, 1925 (Tuesday)

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  • The collapse of a pontoon bridge in Germany killed 67 soldiers of the Reichswehr who drowned while crossing over the Weser river near Minden.[59] Later reporting alleged that the casualties were over 200 and the German military was conducting experiments with a new river-crossing system.[60]
  • The Philadelphia Daily News began publication as a tabloid morning paper

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