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New Zealand has three prime ministers in the same month — William Massey (May 1–10), Francis Bell (May 14–30) and Gordon Coates (May 30–31)
May 22, 1925: Amundsen expedition airplanes set record for furthest north travel, get stranded in the Arctic

May 1, 1925 (Friday)

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May 3, 1925 (Sunday)

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May 4, 1925 (Monday)

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May 5, 1925 (Tuesday)

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John T. Scopes

May 6, 1925 (Wednesday)

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  • The government of the Kingdom of Romania passed the "Statute on the organization of the Romanian Orthodox Church", a comprehensive set of regulations for every aspect of the Eastern European nation's official church.[25]
  • The Wilno school massacre occurred in Wilno in Poland (now Vilnius in Lithuania when a pair of eighth-grade students, Stanislaw Lawrynowicz and Janusz Obrąpalski attacked teachers during final exams. Nine students and the school principal were wounded, and two students and a teacher were killed. Lawrynowicz, who carried a hand grenade as well as a pistol, exploded the grenade during a struggle over his gun, killing himself and two students, Tadeusz Domański and Aleksander Zahorski. Obrapalski shot teacher Jan Jankowski, fatally wounding him, and then killed himself.[26]
  • Baseball player Everett Scott of the New York Yankees, who had a record of 1,307 consecutive games dating back to June 20, 1916, saw his streak come to an end as Yankees manager Miller Huggins benched him.[27] Scott was placed on waivers by Huggins at the end of the month. Scott's record would stand for several more years until being broken by Lou Gehrig.
  • Born: Hédi Temessy, Hungarian stage and film film actress; in Budapest (d. 2001)

May 7, 1925 (Thursday)

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May 8, 1925 (Friday)

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May 9, 1925 (Saturday)

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May 10, 1925 (Sunday)

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May 11, 1925 (Monday)

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May 12, 1925 (Tuesday)

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  • Paul von Hindenburg was sworn in for a seven-year term as President of Germany. His inaugural address emphasized the need to place unity and mutual progress ahead of political partisanship.[44] Hindenburg would win an election for a second term at the age of 84 in 1932, and die in office in 1934.
  • In New York City, the Brooklyn Bridge reopened to motor traffic for the first time in almost three years, after having been closed since July 6, 1922 because of problems with two suspension cables.[45]
  • William Jennings Bryan agreed to participate in a trial of John Scopes on the side of the prosecution, ensuring great national interest.[46]
  • American serial killer Martha Wise was convicted of murder after having poisoned 17 members of her family, three of whom died. She was sentenced the same to life imprisonment.[47] With the exception of a three days in 1962 when she had a commutation of her sentence, Mrs. Wise would remain in prison for the rest of her life, dying in 1971.[48]
  • Born: Yogi Berra, American baseball player; in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2015)
  • Died:

May 13, 1925 (Wednesday)

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May 14, 1925 (Thursday)

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May 15, 1925 (Friday)

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  • U.S. president Calvin Coolidge ruled out prohibitionist Wayne Wheeler's plan to use the U.S. Navy to enforce the Volstead Act, believing the navy's purpose should only be for national defense and not police duty.[55]
  • Editorials in the Japanese press decried American plans to strengthen the naval base at Pearl Harbor, as such plans either suggested fear of Japanese aggression towards America or American aggression towards Japan.[56]
  • Al-Insaniyyah, the first Arabic communist newspaper, was founded.
  • Died: Nelson A. Miles, 85, American general

May 16, 1925 (Saturday)

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May 18, 1925 (Monday)

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May 19, 1925 (Tuesday)

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May 20, 1925 (Wednesday)

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President Machado

May 21, 1925 (Thursday)

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  • In an expedition directed by explorer Roald Amundsen, two specially-equipped seaplanes (the N24 and N25) took off from Kings Bay (now Ny-Ålesund) in Svalbard, Norway in an attempt to be the first to fly to the North Pole.[67]
  • Legal 4.4 beer went on sale in the Canadian province of Ontario, triggering an influx of visitors from bordering U.S. states.[68]
  • Étoile Sportive du Sahel (ESS), one of the most successful teams in Tunisia's premier soccer football league, Ligue 1, was founded in Sousse
  • Died: Hidesaburō Ueno, 53, Japanese agricultural scientist and guardian of Hachiko

May 22, 1925 (Friday)

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May 24, 1925 (Sunday)

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May 25, 1925 (Monday)

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May 26, 1925 (Tuesday)

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  • International plans were drawn up for possibly sending a rescue expedition towards the North Pole, as the Roald Amundsen plane expedition had not been heard from since its departure five days earlier.[78]
  • Chicago mobster Angelo Genna was assassinated by the North Side Gang, crashing his car after a high-speed chase in which he was shot numerous times. He died in a hospital the next day.
  • The Mongolian Air Force was activated.
  • Born: Alec McCowen, English actor; in Tunbridge Wells, Kent (d. 2017)

May 27, 1925 (Wednesday)

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May 29, 1925 (Friday)

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  • British aviator Alan Cobham set a new record for the longest nonstop flight in a light airplane, flying his de Havilland Moth from Croydon Aerodrome in London to Zürich, Switzerland. The flight consumed only twenty-five gallons of gasoline and six pints of oil.[82]

May 30, 1925 (Saturday)

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May 31, 1925 (Sunday)

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