In Australia, 100 police clashed with 1,000 striking seamen on the wharf in Fremantle as the officers tried to board a ship that the strikers were trying to damage; many were injured and 100 arrests were made.[2]
Twenty-one-year-old film actress Constance Bennett married millionaire socialite Philip Morgan Plant in a hotel lobby in Greenwich, Connecticut; she did not make another film until they divorced in 1929.[3]
Italian Socialist deputy and expert marksman Tito Zaniboni took a hotel room opposite the Palazzo Chigi with the intent of shooting Benito Mussolini with a telescopic rifle when he came out to the balcony to make a speech. The police had been tipped off by an intercepted phone call and stopped the would-be assassin.[4][5]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 159.39. This was the 65th record close of the calendar year 1925, a record in itself almost doubling the old mark of 34 set in 1899. The record stood until 1995.
Howard Carter and an autopsy team began the unwrapping of the mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The process was exceedingly difficult due to the extreme fragility of the bandages and the resinous coating that held the mummy fast inside the sarcophagus.[14]
Le Faisceau, a French Fascist party, was founded, consisting of about 10,000 members.[15]
The autopsy of Tutankhamun concluded. The bad condition of the body and limited forensic science of the 1920s meant that little could be determined other than the age of the body being estimated to be about eighteen.[24]
The most notorious episode in the Kip Rhinelander divorce trial unfolded when Mrs. Rhinelander was taken to the jury room and compelled to partially disrobe in front of the jury to establish that she was indeed "colored" and that Mr. Rhinelander had to have been aware that she was not white.[27]
Italy promulgated a bill bringing secret societies such as Freemasonry under the control of the state and forbidding government employees from belonging to them.[28]
It was reported that the British government had advised Benito Mussolini not to attend the formal signing of the Locarno Treaties in London, as it could not protect him from being insulted in public. The British public was generally displeased by Mussolini's increasingly authoritarian rule, and labor factions were particularly angered over his suppression of Italian trade unions. Diplomat Vittorio Scialoja would be sent as the Italian representative instead.[29]
Born:Eugene Istomin, pianist, in New York City (d. 2003)
The jury in the Ossian Sweet trial said it was unable to reach a verdict after 46 hours of deliberation. The judge declared a mistrial and dismissed the jury.[33]
Miriam Noel Wright, the wife of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, filed for divorce, alleging desertion and cruelty.[34] It had not previously been known to the public that they were married.[35]
The government of French Prime Minister Paul Painlevé fell over the failure of Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux to reach a settlement with the United States over French wartime loans.[37]
^Donnelley, Paul (2003). Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries. New York: Omnibus Press. p. 83. ISBN0-7119-9512-5.
^Bell, J. Bowyer (2009). Assassin: Theory and Practice of Political Violence (Third ed.). New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers. p. 231. ISBN978-1-4128-0509-4.
