1925

• The Children's Museum of Indianapolis was founded
• Christiania, capital of Norway, re-named Oslo

  Chaplin makes "The Gold Rush"

• "Art Deco" introduced in Paris
• Paul von Hindenburg elected President of Germany
• The Scopes "Monkey Trial"
• Chrysler Corp. established
• Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy
• Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
• 1st commercial fax service
• Quantum mechanics
• First television transmission
• Chaplin makes "The Gold Rush"
• Maria Tallchief, Paul Newman, Malcolm X, B.B. King, Robert F. Kennedy, William F. Buckley, and Peter Sellers born
• William Jennings Bryan, Robert LaFollette, Elwood Haynes, and John Singer Sargent die

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