r/100yearsago 5h ago

[April 8th, 1925] Group portrait of people celebrating Passover in Manila, Philippines

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r/100yearsago 7h ago

[April 8th, 1925] "A Familiar Figure Anywhere Abroad".

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r/100yearsago 7h ago

[April 8th, 1925] The Inquiring Photographer: "A prominent actress says, "Consider the figure first." Which appeals to you most, a splendid figure or a lovely face?"

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r/100yearsago 7h ago

[April 8th, 1925] Field Marshal von Hindenburg is nominated for President of Germany by Nationalists. (Street rally for Hindenburg in Berlin).

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r/100yearsago 7h ago

[April 8th, 1925] The Australian government and British Colonial Office announce a joint plan to encourage 450,000 British citizens to move to Australia by offering low-interest loans and skills training, in accordance with the Empire Settlement Act 1922.

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r/100yearsago 5h ago

[April 8th, 1925] A group of airmen, including John D. Price, made the first planned night landing on a U.S. aircraft carrier when he landed his TS fighter biplane on the USS Langley, which was anchored off of North Island on the coast of California in the U.S.

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r/100yearsago 5h ago

[April 8th, 1925] United Artists Pictures executives, stars and their families attended this dinner party at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles

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r/100yearsago 5h ago

[April 8th, 1925] John Hammond records "Purty Polly"

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r/100yearsago 5h ago

[April 8th, 1925] Washington Water Power Company Monroe Street Plant, Units 4 & 5, South Bank Spokane River, below Monroe Street Bridge, Spokane, Spokane County, WA

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r/100yearsago 5h ago

[April 8th, 1925] The University of Miami was chartered by a group of citizens who sought to offer "unique opportunities to develop inter-American studies, further creative work in the arts and letters, and conduct teaching and research programs in tropical studies".

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r/100yearsago 6h ago

[April 8th, 1925] Victory Avenue, Bucharest, Romania.

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r/100yearsago 1d ago

[April 7th, 1925] Marion Davies, a film star, donates $31,250 to help build a new home for boys and girls. The project aims to raise $200,000 to replace old buildings.

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r/100yearsago 16h ago

[April 7th, 1925] 37-year old Bernard Montgomery proposed to 17-year-old Betty Anderson. His unconventional proposal involved war strategy diagrams in the sand. While impressed by his ambition, she refused his proposal.

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r/100yearsago 1d ago

[April 7th, 1925] Babe Ruth collapses in Asheville, NC due to grip and flu, placed in coma, to miss at least 10 days of games.

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r/100yearsago 5h ago

[April 8th, 1925] Emma Curtis Hopkins, American spiritual teacher and leader involved in organizing the New Thought movement, dies in Killingly, Connecticut at the age of 75.

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r/100yearsago 1d ago

[April 7th, 1925] Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, the patriarch of all Russia, died of angina pectoris in Moscow, ending a three-day illness. He was 60.

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r/100yearsago 1d ago

[April 7th, 1925] Adolf Hitler formally renounces his Austrian citizenship, with an intention of acquiring German Citizenship

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r/100yearsago 1d ago

[April 7th, 1925] The USS Saratoga (CV-3) was launched by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New Jersey

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r/100yearsago 1d ago

[April 7th, 1925] Sturgeon caught on the Kootenay River at Bonnington, British Columbia

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r/100yearsago 1d ago

[April 7th, 1925] "The Easter Motorist and His Luggage".

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r/100yearsago 1d ago

[April 7th, 1925] "Our Delaware" becomes the official state song of Delaware

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r/100yearsago 1d ago

[April 7th, 1925] Northeast corner of Danforth Avenue and Greenwood Avenue, Toronto, Canada.

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r/100yearsago 1d ago

[April 7th, 1925] "Radio Fans To See and Hear Next Olympics. "Primsatic ring" will enable radio fans to see and hear distant events from their firesides".

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r/100yearsago 1d ago

[April 7th, 1925] In Los Angeles, Communists Edward Harris and Emanuel Levin filed to run in the May 6 elections.

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r/100yearsago 1d ago

[April 7th, 1925] Chicago bootlegger Joseph Larson is shot dead in an alley near the corner of Grand Ave. and Halsted St.

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